Cfl watts for 1 plant

Need to know how much watts for seedling and veg state..only one plant.

as much as poss too get best results simple as but 125w will surfice to veg 1 plant

Thanks bro

It's said to be 100 CFL watts per plant plus 50 watts for every plant after that.

Depending on your grow area, make sure you have good ventilation. I didn't think I would have any heat issues with 100+ CFL watts in a computer case, and I was wrong. Running a 140mm & 120mm fan at full speed I'm running 85-88 degrees with 115 CFL watts.

Use 6500k (or as close as possible - I use 5000k) for veg and 2700k for flower. These numbers are the color spectrum of the lights.

Hope this helps.

I would like your post but im new and dont know how so thanks

How much lumens per plant?

start your seed out with one CFL and then add 3 once you start adding nutes. Continue adding in groups of 3 for ever new 12 inches grown until she is 36 inches tall and you've got 10 23 watt cfls. not bad, my friend, not bad. I guess CFL is the new HPS. enjoy

it depends how big you plan to veg it??

and how big is ur grow spot??

depending you can do it with minimal watts

Soursmokey said:

How much lumens per plant?

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As many as possible .


No worry on the "liking" my post. I don't care about that stuff.

Small corner in the closet just enought room for one plant.. I want to veg for like a month or two

So basically their is never enough light?

in veg you do not need that much light.

if you had a reflector like .....................

you could easily veg for a month or two with a 30 or 40 watt 6500k

if you lst or something you could go longer.

I have a reflector and currently using a 100watt cfl and phillips 120 watts grow light, it kind of gets blocked out bc of cfl being so close

is the cfl actually 100watts? or is it the equivilant wattage??

are they 6500k?

Like I said depending how ur gonna grow it (how tall etc) you could get by with less then that.

if you got a reflector, just use one bulb whichever is 6500 k or closest

and keep it within 2-4 inches

Eqvialent to 100 but its6500k

How will the buds be with these lights

so its a 23w bulb then?

never go by equivalent always actual watts.


When flower time comes, you want as much light as you can fit in.

if that phillips is actual 120w then if you had 2 of those @ 2700k then you would be fine with one plant. (depending on size)



you could always get a 150 or 250 w hps for flowering as well they would do much better

I was told not to go by that but the labels never say actual watts..and it doesnt say the spectrum on the phillips grow light just that its 120 watts..it has a blue lens so I would think its higher than 2700k

Soursmokey said:

I was told not to go by that but the labels never say actual watts..and it doesnt say the spectrum on the phillips grow light just that its 120 watts..it has a blue lens so I would think its higher than 2700k

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Actual watts are easy to convert, when CFL label says 26W it's actually the equivalent of about 100. So, the actual 42W 6500K bulb is=to about 180 or so real watts.

A blue lens?, that doesn't sound right.

Reflector acgro