Lighting CFL for seedlings

[Stone420]

I'm starting 2 auto seedlings in solo cups so I need a consistent and decent indoor lighting source to veg them a couple of weeks before moving outside for the grow.

I have a desk lamp with a neck that be adjusted easily for height. I found some CFL bulbs at Lowes that are 100 watt equivalent but only draw 23 watts at the wall. The color temperature is 5000k daylight.

I will only use this cfl for a couple of weeks until the leaves are as wide as the cup, then I'll up-plant one time and harden the plants off for the outdoor grow.

My question is - Will the cfl bulb I described do the job to get the plant up and running? I don't want to spend a ton of money on something as short term as this will be used.

 

[Animatey]

I'm starting 2 auto seedlings in solo cups so I need a consistent and decent indoor lighting source to veg them a couple of weeks before moving outside for the grow.

I have a desk lamp with a neck that be adjusted easily for height. I found some CFL bulbs at Lowes that are 100 watt equivalent but only draw 23 watts at the wall. The color temperature is 5000k daylight.

I will only use this cfl for a couple of weeks until the leaves are as wide as the cup, then I'll up-plant one time and harden the plants off for the outdoor grow.

My question is - Will the cfl bulb I described do the job to get the plant up and running? I don't want to spend a ton of money on something as short term as this will be used.

I would use 4 of those cfls and they should work fine.

If you have a light meter, try to keep them 20k lux or more right above the seedling.

I use 4 cfls 23 watt in a space bucket to start my seedlings, and they like it.

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[Animatey]

Oh and to get 4 bulbs on that one lamp you can use a 4 bulb socket adapter for 10$ on amazon


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[CannaDaTaBiz]

yea 100w cfl is ok for vegging 2 plants if you dont plan on vegging them very big. More would be better after like 4 leaf nodes, but 100w can do it even a bit longer if you dont have any way to add more light. But if this 100w equivalent means equivalent to those old light bulbs and is actually just 23w cfl, then it will be enough just for quite short time