Using the wrong spectrum :(:(:(

Doctor

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very nice lol.... u make me exited haha

ive still not recived my cutting yet ( looooonnnnnnnnnggg fuckin story and u wont b interested lol). so ive neva grew b4 :( ..... but i fink ive read every post on here lol. cant w8 to start......

.....................just need to w8 for this fucker to give me the cutting >:(>:(>:(>:(
 

chabnock

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WOW, Now I am confused now. lol.
My plants are now in Flowering stage, and I had them under Soft white CFLs. So today I just went and bought new Daylight CFLs. From what I understood these are what you want for flowering. These daylight cfls are 27 watts used, 100 watts equivelant. They put out 1,300 Lumens. I sure hope these are the correct lights.

So now for 3 plants I have (3) 27 watt (100 watt) daylight cfls, (2) 46 watt (150 watt) soft white cfls, and (1) 48" T-5 light. I think these lights should work ok for flowering, right?
 

battosai

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WOW, Now I am confused now. lol.
My plants are now in Flowering stage, and I had them under Soft white CFLs. So today I just went and bought new Daylight CFLs. From what I understood these are what you want for flowering. These daylight cfls are 27 watts used, 100 watts equivelant. They put out 1,300 Lumens. I sure hope these are the correct lights.

So now for 3 plants I have (3) 27 watt (100 watt) daylight cfls, (2) 46 watt (150 watt) soft white cfls. I think these lights should work ok for flowering, right?
i think those softwhites are exactly what u need. but the daylight cfls will make a good addition. over all it sounds like a good combo to me.
 

pauliojr

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Hi guys here the deal,
got 4 cfls in the 2700k side of the spectrum (soft bulb) and i need them for vegging lol :(:(

at this point its them bulbs or the sun....

do blubs of one spectrum ONLY emmit tht light??

will they still grow while using these???
They should still grow, but you should try and get some cool whites that are in the 4000K spectrum. Check out this image that should help you out a little bit.

 

Doctor

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Thanks pauliojr..... tht chart helped :):):):)

Im thinking we should get a chart like that put into the grow faqs.... but we need to note on it tht the top of the charts for vegging and bottem for flowering :)
 

pauliojr

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Thanks pauliojr..... tht chart helped :):):):)

Im thinking we should get a chart like that put into the grow faqs.... but we need to note on it tht the top of the charts for vegging and bottem for flowering :)
I agree with ya Doctor! It would definitely help the Newbies!
 

DoobsDay

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WOW, Now I am confused now. lol.
My plants are now in Flowering stage, and I had them under Soft white CFLs. So today I just went and bought new Daylight CFLs. From what I understood these are what you want for flowering. These daylight cfls are 27 watts used, 100 watts equivelant. They put out 1,300 Lumens. I sure hope these are the correct lights.

So now for 3 plants I have (3) 27 watt (100 watt) daylight cfls, (2) 46 watt (150 watt) soft white cfls. I think these lights should work ok for flowering, right?

if you plan on flowering all 3 of those you need 3 times as much light as that or your going to be dissapointed.
 

Godkas

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I started with a 2700k CFL and I am still using it with some blue current lumen ratio 6000 = 3000lm red + 3000lm blue.
 
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