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Green Utopia
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Re: Papa Green's Utopian Sub v2 - You, Me, and Barney's Farm makes 3 - Perpetual 2000
You're right on track! Lots of folks use chicken wire, and you got the right size holes. As far as the lights - you really can't be too close with CFL's I don't think. I had 750w of CFLs about that height off the canopy and no issues. Basically get them as close as you can and still get the coverage.
Thanks for the reps PG
I try to do research before I jump into things, but I already bought 2'x10' chicken wire that has two inch holes to do my scrog with as well as 1x2's to build it with. It only cost me not even 7 bucks for the materials, I could not beat that with my less than impressive budget I have to work with. My lights are CFL's 252 watts {2700K} to be exact, if I do a roughly 2x2.5 scrog I would have enought watts right. I have read to have 30 -50 watts per square foot, I'm right in the middle with 40 watts psf. I might get some bigger cfl's to help boost things up.
My concern with cfl's is I know they have to be close to the plant to have the most effect, that being said I was thinking about only having it 4 inches above my present canopy. Is that to low, she is going into The Bloom Room withing the next few days.
Any help would be greatfully taken into thought as you stated you have way more experience than I do with this type of grow.
You're right on track! Lots of folks use chicken wire, and you got the right size holes. As far as the lights - you really can't be too close with CFL's I don't think. I had 750w of CFLs about that height off the canopy and no issues. Basically get them as close as you can and still get the coverage.