New Grower Advice supplement light

[JMD]

Hi,

This is my first grow and initially looking on light wattage found this led lamp which sounded OK for my grow area (it seemed to be a sort of viparspectra clone)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Niello®-Sw...F8&qid=1524302465&sr=8-1&keywords=niello&th=1

My thinking was: I have a 80x80X160cm - more or less 0.64 square meters / 7 square foot. calculating between 50-70w per sq feet I got to between 350-500w... but it ends up the real out put of the lamp is 240w only and I am afraid of being short now...

The plants are growing fine so far, but still on week 2 so probably not very demanding either... here is a link for the grow journal

GrowDiaries. 1st try

As options to supplement it thought on the options below

1) Double down on the 600w niello as price is good (another 600w would cost me 160 euros and with the 2 would have good physical coverage as well as they combined would cover 60x60 cm of the 80x80 so probably more even light across all tent). this would end in 480 real watts

2) Add 2 supplement 100w COB leds full spectrum as the one below (100w drawn from wall each), total would be 460-500w

100W COB Led Grow Lights - Full Spectrum by PRAKASA®
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roleadro-S...8&qid=1524304451&sr=8-2&keywords=roleadro+cob

3) Add 4 supplementary red lights to be used during flowering only as the one below or CFLs to end up with more or less 80-100w more of red (not sure what ratios between colors would this plus niello lamp end up with, nor if beneficial)

https://www.amazon.com/Niello-Boost...e=UTF8&qid=1524302327&sr=8-11&keywords=niello

https://www.amazon.co.uk/CFL-150W-B...UTF8&qid=1524304278&sr=8-4&keywords=cfl+bloom

I am in Europe, so not that many options as in the US... and a bit worried as flowering will start soon and not sure if I have the proper set up

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!

 

[AutoWonders]

Have you checked out www.cobshop.net? Quite a few of us in here have purchased Autocobs. Ready to hang or you finish. I have six of the ready to hand 3500K and I am happy with their performance. Low heat throw, efficient, no noise, low electrical draw, small and easy to move yadda yadda. Check them out.

 

[MickJ]

How many plants are you growing? I use the roleadro you have linked and it does 2 plants. I tried 4 and it struggled so I built my own , 2 50w cobs, not sure how they are doing yet. So I have 300w total for 4.

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[JMD]

Cobshop looks great, but imagine shipping to Europe + import taxes would make it quite expensive

I am growing 4 plants as well, was looking to increase wattage to 400-450... maybe too much?

 

[KonopCh]

If you're in EU, I can help you, just PM me.