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Lighting suggestions for rectangular closet

beerbong

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I have a closet available to setup another grow area and am polling for suggestions or lighting advice from anyone who has experience dealing with non-square areas. Specifically, the closet in question is 7' high, 11' long, but only 2' deep. Due to the footprint, I'm wondering if it makes more sense to run multiple, lower wattage lamps for more even coverage, or if I can find reflectors that throw off a more rectangular pattern and put a couple 600w'ers in there.

For shits and giggles, I flowered a couple freebies around a 250w hps doughnut style in one of the corners earlier this year. I doubt I could go higher wattage in vert given the depth restrictions, but I'm also not at all opposed to flipping back to horizontal. I could likely fit up to 6 such setups in the closet w/o issue, possibly even double stacked if I wanted to go all out to the ceiling. It just seems like a monumental waste in ballast costs, not to mention the lower efficiency.

Any ideas or pointers?
 

Hold Your Fire

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3 400 watt in Super Sun 2's would be pretty damn good IMO, need at least 1-6 in vortex for cooling.
With such a long area to cover, it would be tough to do with just 2 lights, unless you had both lights on movers. 2 stationary lights wouldn't cover 11 feet very well. :2cents:
I'd rather spend the money on another light set up, rather than 2 light movers.
From experience, light movers DO NOT make up for a lack of wattage!
 
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ak-51

the closet in question is 7' high, 11' long, but only 2' deep.
That sounds like it would be a massive pain in the ass to grow in.

I think even 600s in there would be a waste if it's only 2' deep. Have you considered just running fluoros? That would be much easier, since most of them are rectangular.
 
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