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bm90191 said:
and 15,000 lumens for a 3x4 veg area is definitely nice but i'm totally against CFL's for flowering i should mention so I would never need to buy a cfl in the 2700k range except I may change out the bulbs in my fixtures when I go into flowering just to attach the walls around the plant give plenty of light under the canopy while fitting a 1000watt hps above should get a huge yield off 4 plants

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Harry_Ba11sach said:
If you feel like putting some effort in you can get a nice reflector made up as well. Don't forget that more than 60% of the light from a bulb shines away from the plants, so reflectors are very key.

Here are two different reflectors I made for seedlings and clones using CFL's a couple years ago. Let me know if you need clarification on anything I did here;

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dude super simple reflector spent 6$ on one of these its got the outlet already ready to screw the bulb in, theyre rated up to 300 watts.  They have a reflector to direction the light already and it's a little dull so I used to extra mylar around the inside to make it more reflective.  AND to make things better they have that clip that you can secure to anything and rotate and tighten where you want it.  Seriously they work great!  I think they're a little safer than just using those socket things.  Hope this helps

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Harry_Ba11sach said:
If you feel like putting some effort in you can get a nice reflector made up as well. Don't forget that more than 60% of the light from a bulb shines away from the plants, so reflectors are very key.

Here are two different reflectors I made for seedlings and clones using CFL's a couple years ago. Let me know if you need clarification on anything I did here;

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