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Originally Posted by Cede2Weed
Well, I have 6 x 1600 lumens or (my buzz is making this difficult) 9600 lumens. Otherwise, woefully inadequate for a 4.5 sq ft plot.
He probably meant 50w of cfl not equivalent.
So for 4.5 sq ft I would need 22500 lumens? Or 2.5 times what I have. wow. I assume that would be good through harvest. Is that correct?
Thanks.,
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You can grow under less light. It's just not ideal. Again this is just what I Was taught but your yields drastically reduce at anything below 5k lumen per SqFt. I've never bothered to verify or understand why this was the magic number. It just sounded like a good *minimum* amount of light to build your grow around. I went beyond this but it really helped me find a good starting point in terms of lighting.
You can flower with what you have. Just know your yields won't be as great as if you had a 250 watt hps. You're already running about 140 actual watts in CFL's right? Wouldn't hurt to run another 110 watts to get better quality/quantity of buds would it?
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