Lights, Spectrums, And Vegging

I just started my first grow about a week and a half ago. i have 2 40W Cool white Fluorescents that each produce 2,300 lumens, and i was told that these are better for vegging because of their bluish undertone.

I also have 2 warm white 20w Cfls that produce about 1,300 lumens a piece that i've been shining on my master kush plant (which has just entered vegetative growth. ) and i was wondering if it would be better to leave just the 40w Cool white on or to combine the 2 40w fluorescents with the 2 20w cfls

Bear with me i just started ha, any help you can offer will be appreciated.

hey man, good to hear your setup is up and running. I run 2 (105w) daylight spectrum bulbs, with 4 (47w) 2700k spectrum bulbs as supplemental lighting. I run these for veg and flower, all together it's about 400w of light with an even spectrum. I have heard that running more red than blue in the flower stage stimulates growth better, but I have yet to experiment. Even spectrum works fine for me! I like to mix my spectrums as I feel it better simulates nature. It's extra light anyways, and light is good.. y'know?

The 2700k CFL are best used during flowering and 6500k for veg. some ppl usually mix them. hope that helps

Yeah

Thats all fine and dandy but i'm on an extremely... extremely limited budget. so i have to work with what i've got haah

I'm just wondering if it would be better and faster (grow time wise) for my plant if I run the cooler spectrum fluorescent for veg alone? or combine with the 2 warmer CFLS?



If you can suggest any good investments to make with my meager funds (50 dollars a month in spare cash after bills, groceries, savings and the like).

I'm just trying this on for now with a limited budget, if it works out well i might in all possibility set some more money aside to invest in a high quality set up

well, adding more light would stimulate better growth in the plant, better growth=better yield. so it would grow better, perhaps a bit faster...not sure.

For vegging I run two 55w 6500k bulbs and one 55w 3000k bulb. I like the mixed spectrum for vegging.