I'm a first time grower and I have some doubts about my lighting for my autos. I originally started with a 105w CFL (emits 525w) soft white with 2700K. i had just planted my 4 autos. They were under this single 105w soft white CFL for about 4 days. I started to notice that most of my little plants were stretching a lot, their little stems were getting longer but the leaves weren't really growing much. My first assumption was that the bulb was too far away and the plants were struggling to get light, so they were stretching to get closer. Re-reading some articles about lighting i found out that the light spectrum wasn't the correct one for this stage (vegetative). Did some more research and figured it was best to get some daylight CFLs for this particular stage. So now i have 4 18w daylight CFLs 6700K, one for each plant. I have my setup all in one space, the big soft white 105w CFL in the middle and under each pot i have a small 18w daylight CFL a few inches away (about 4inches). My concern is if the amount of watts that the small 18w CFLs is enough for the right vegetative growth. The big 105w CFL is giving out enough wattage but not the correct spectrum, the small CFLs emit the correct spectrum but maybe not enough wattage for a good grow. Am I correct to assume this? Should i do something differently or change the 18w daylight cfls for something bigger? First time grower here, some insight would be great!
-porro power
-porro power
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