Newbie Could Use Some Advice
 

I Have Question
I Live In Small Apartment Limited Space And looking To Grow One Bell Pepper Plant And One Sweet Pepper Plant
I Did Small Hydroponic Setup In And 2ft x 4ft Area So Will
These 2 Be Enough ?

(1) 85watt CFL = 400watt - 5000K Natural Daylight
(2) 65watt CFL = 250watt - 6500K Full Spectrum Daylight

It should be. Good luck.

thanks
 

Thank You Well Here A Look At My Very First Setup Its Almost done
Need To Enclose It And Fix Some Sort Light Stand

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Look like good start. My made out of 4 inch pvc. Got it outside. Hope to
Have greenhouse. Up soon.

Sure wish I had room for greenhouse .. but doing what I can .. I been wanting to grow few veggies so I picked bell peppers and banana peppers still tryin to decide on a tomato

Hello Bigdaddy216,
I don't think you will have much luck with only those two cfl bulbs.

First, peppers aren't small plants like lettuce.

Second, When figuring florescent lighting, you want to go by the "actual" wattage, not what they say the equivalent wattage is. You have two bulbs 65 and 85 watts, for a total of 150 watts to grow two large plants.

Third, Unlike HID lights, florescent lighting doesn't travel far. The effective lumen count for florescent lights drops significantly beyond one foot from the bulb. So the lower leaves won't get enough light to photosynthesize much (like twilight hours all day).

Fourth, Peppers are a fruiting plant, and fruiting plants need plenty of good light to conduct photosynthesis in order to support all the growing fruit, as well as all the growing foliage. While plants like lettuce grow nice under florescent, they are short plants, and non fruiting plants as well.

Not that you cant grow fruiting plants with florescent lighting, but you need plenty of it, and it needs to surround the plants for even coverage to do much good. Other wise you wind up with small underdeveloped fruit. In the long run it will probably cost the same, or even more to grow them successfully with florescence's, than with than HID. I don't know the area you have to work with, but that's one reason why I try and grow everything outside in natural sunlight (lighting equipment costs).

well as in picture its just and 2ft x 4ft area ... I'm just beginner so I'm starting with just 2 plants .. I been reading about CFL'S and their growing in popularity but real reason why I chosen them is because of cost ...now currently still finishing the setup go enclose it and add reflective material also.. I've managed to figure out a lot of things but this lighting is confusing