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Hello folks, I'm new to this whole game but I hope to start small with a decent CFL cabinet. I've outlined my basic design below but I'm short on details at the moment.
I'll be using the left room for vegging up to 4 clones/seedlings under 4x30W of 6500K CFLs. This will produce about 8,000 lumens for a square foot of grow space.
In the right room I'll be SCROGing two plants in half-gallon pots, using a high-end soil and hand-watering (for my first grow at least). Light will come from 4x55W 2700K CFLs with soda-can reflectors for a total of 14000 lumens in just over a square foot of screen space. The screen and pots will move as one unit so that i can move them to within a few inches of the lights all throughout the flowering period.
Does this sound feasible? I'll be constructing this out of 3/4" plywood and framing up the edges to make it sturdier. I'll also be painting the insides flat white. I still need to design a door or two for it. I also haven't addressed ventilation yet because I don't know how much heat this setup will generate. I'll probably set up a passive intake in the veg room and then route air into the flowering room to be extracted from the top near the 55W CFLs.
A few questions: 1. What is a decent strain which will grow well under CFLs and respond favorably to SCROG training? I'd like a cheap indica/sativa mix if possible.
2. Would it be better to mix the spectrum in both rooms?
3. Can anyone link me to an easy electrical tutorial? I need to figure out how to wire these bulbs easily without taking up too much room.
4. Any other CFL growers here?
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