Mother

[macster]

What wattage lighting is needed to keep a mother thriving??

 

[Blunt_69]

depends on size. You can keep her going with as little as a couple of floro grow lights and a single fixture.(like 40$) This also uses next to nothing for power.

 

[Lucky 7]

^^ agree, not much is needed

 

[Guest]

A 4 ft 2 lamp floro would do fine.

 

[macster]

how many watts are those flous

 

[MTF-Sandman]

Shop lights (T12) are 80w...I use 132w of T8 fluoros for 4 moms and can have up to 8 in there with no problems...

 

[TheSource]

are there flourecent tubes less than 20 inches long?

 

[Guest]

I use the normal compact fluoros that replace incandescent bulbs for my mothers. I keep about 20-30 watts of light per plant (I keep my mothers fairly small); when I know I'm going to need to take cuts, I'll add more lights a week or so ahead.

Compact fluoros come in wattages from about 13 watts to 30 watts. For mothers, you want daylight or sunlight spectrum (6500K), not warm or soft spectrum.

 

[macster]

OK Gals/guys
I bought a 2 x T-8 48 inch long 32 watt ballaist and bulbs will this do the trick for 2 mothers??

 

[MTF-Sandman]

OK Gals/guys
I bought a 2 x T-8 48 inch long 32 watt ballaist and bulbs will this do the trick for 2 mothers??

64w total? It'll work, but another T8 shoplight would definitely help...

 

[macster]

would a couple of these new bulbs say the equivalent of 100watts on each side help, the ones with the built in ballasts that way I'm not putting out an additional 50-60 bucks and difficulty aligning everything?