Mirrors?????

fantasticof

Active Member
what would happen if i used mirrors in my grow room. if i put them on all sides of the walls and roof of my grow setup and mounted all my lights onto the mirrors. what would happen?? would this be good? it seems it would multiply the lighting x10
 

docd187

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mirrors are very good at reflecting light but they create hot spots on your plants that might burn them. use mylar or a flat white paint
 

wilsoncr17

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mirrors reflect light but absorb spectrum, so you may have red lights but the plant sees a redish-green. Since plants don't see green you're wasting a large percentage of usable light. If you're looking for maximum reflectivity, go with Styrofoam as it is 99.9% reflective but its also an insulate so you better have good ventilation. If you've ever grown in an attic it'll even keep the snow on your roof. Otherwise, mylar it is.
 

cyborgasm

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Okay, admittedly I don't have any experience actually trying mirrors, but what people are saying just doesn't make physical sense to me. Aluminum foil is bad because the crinkles create hot spots. This makes sense to me. The small creases that you can't avoid will create many small focal points where a large amount of light is focused down to a small point (which could burn your girls). But if you have actual flat mirrors, these should just reflect the light specularly (incident angle=reflected angle). In other words, the light should not converge to tiny harmful focus points (unless you for some reason used odd curved mirrors. I believe if you used planar flat mirrors as your walls you'd be in great shape. (although I doubt the performance of mirrors over flat white paint would make up for the increased cost if money was any issue.) Certainly though, I'd be very curious to hear from anyone who has any actual experience using mirrors as walls...
 

fantasticof

Active Member
I LIVE IN AN OLD VINTAGE HOUSE WITH MIRRORS RANDOMLY SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE... (sorry for caps i just noticed) anyways.. ima try this shit. im in the third day of flower so....ill let people know wuts goin on..
thanks
 
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