Need advice on my current setup

[katrina]

I have to agree...it looks pretty dark. It might be good for phals but the higher light plants, I believe, will struggle. Your best bet would be to get a light meter so you can get a better idea of what you're dealing with.

For now though...if you can rig some sort of reflectors on all of those lights...to direct the light down onto the plants...it would help some. As things are, you are losing a lot of your available light to the rest of the room.

Also, keep in mind...you'll get better results if you're using Full spectrum or "daylight" bulbs. The others can be more green and/or yellow spectrum and plants don't use much (if any) of those 2.