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My new grow is contained within a hollowed out wall unit.

There are two sections: A 3.5 cubic feet (1 1/3 foot high, 1 1/3 foot deep and 2 feet wide) starting/cloning area with a couple of compact fluorescents; and a 10.5 cubic feet (4 foot high, 2 foot wide and 1 1/3 foot deep) vegging/flowering area. Now, I have no height restrictions (actually I do, obviously, it's 4 feet). One bathroom exhaust fan provides adequate ventilation and also included in the ventilation is a crappy little carbon filter that slightly reduces odour.


The larger area is lit as follows:

Lighting

Two 48" gro-lux 40w wide-spectrum T12 tubes standing vertically
shining up and down the plants 1900L X 2 = 3800 Lumens

The two plants stand in a horizontal line with the fluorescent fixture, so one plant is always inbetween the light and the other plant. For this reason the plants are switched every day. Also the plants are rotated 180 degrees halfway through the day. Pictures will clarify.

Above The Plants

one 45w warm cfl- 2900 Lumens
two 14w warm cfl's - 800L x 2 = 1600 Lumens
one 26w warm cfl - 1700 Lumens

Total Watts of Fluorescent light - 179 w
Total Lumens - 10 000 Lumens

I started my first grow with bagseeds and did ok, but the seeds were tiny brown shitty seeds. The bagseeds I'm using now are larger and greener and they came from better dope too. I germinated eight seeds in some toilet paper. All eight germinated successfully. I planted five in peat pellets (pucks of peat moss that expand under water).

I started the plants in the top, smaller section under two 14 watt and one 26 watt warm compact fluorescent lights. I know cool would have been better but I used what was available.
I grew the young seedlings under 24 hours of light for about two weeks and then ran out of space.