I been wondering, people

Maybe one of you more educated people could help me out here...but how was indoor growing done before you could get all this fancy lighting equipment?

Not very much. Green house and maybe sky lights.

Florescent lighting.. and lots of it...

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sunny south facing window

Weed was just invented last week I thought?!

candles with big wicks.

Orithil said:

Maybe one of you more educated people could help me out here...but how was indoor growing done before you could get all this fancy lighting equipment?

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Depends on how far back you're asking. Marijuana wasn't illegal until 1937 and electric lighting has been around longer than that.

420God said:

Depends on how far back you're asking. Marijuana wasn't illegal until 1937 and electric lighting has been around longer than that.

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Well, I'm more referring to how did people do it before being able to go out and buy a 1000W HPS to hang in their room.

Smokey nailed it. Lots of big Floros. We had things like this going on before this co. was even thought of. Imagine this, with twice the bulbs and 8' tubes:

https://www.growlifeinc.com/letsgrow

before the invention of those types of lights, there was no such thing as a closet grow.

Florescent lighting a shit ton of it. Still decent for clones

I've heard older guys talking about setting up dozens of 4' T8's back in the 80's...it just seems so...impractical.

You mean T12's don't you? LOL

Jack Harer said:

You mean T12's don't you? LOL

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No, I mean the T8's that were introduced in '81.

REALLY?? I did not realize that!! My bad!!!

My mind was back in the 70's growing. I think in the 80's HID's were being used. Could be wrong tho...

Jack Harer said:

REALLY?? I did not realize that!! My bad!!!

My mind was back in the 70's growing. I think in the 80's HID's were being used. Could be wrong tho...

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When in the 70's did T12's come along? I'd love to just have a greenhouse really, but you know...the times and all.

T-12's were in common usage in the 30's, the t8's came along in '81, and now the new thing is t5's.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6464110_t5_-t8-t12-lighting_.html

Jack Harer said:

T-12's were in common usage in the 30's, the t8's came along in '81, and now the new thing is t5's.

http://www.ehow.com/about_6464110_t5_-t8-t12-lighting_.html

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Damn that's crazy... Maybe in 2020 the new T2's will be available.

Indoor didn't start untill the late 70's and early 80's, thy first were done with the a bunch of big T'12's and some people used street lights they were the first HID's people used