Mix the lights?!

Hello!

I`m currently in week 3 ( 3 day ) flower.

To be short- im running

Vegetative - 2 x 55W (6500k) TCL (secret jardin bulbs) OFF
Flowering - 2 x 75W (2700k) TCL (mammoth t-neon with ballast) ON

1) If, i will run both lamps would they give the synergy to increase the yield ?
2) If mix the spectrum, would it be right thing to do?

Link to my grow journal. --> https://www.rollitup.org/t/royal-queen-1-and-power-plant-first-grow-ever.877361/

Mixing in one of your 6500k with the rest is cool, gives the plants more spectrum of light to use. As for increasing the yield, that's more environment and strain dependent.

When it comes to flowering plants, more light is almost always better.

So the blue spectrum will combine with the yellow well?

yes. to be short.

Thank you for your answers guys!

now running 2x

I should have explained myself better..! u should gugle this for further info

blue light or cool white at about 6500K (kelvin) or the led or metal halide equivalent,

grows or encourages growth thats squat and short with very short shitty stems like a cabbage

many noobs here have this issue, in the biz its politely termed as 'short internodes'

the opposite where one grows out a vegging plant with an hps or light in the 2700 kelvin, sold as warm white or variations

does the opposite and creates a very stretched plant, in th biz it called 'stretched to fuck' where the gap between each leaf or internode

are very far apart indeed,

the deal is to have a balance of different light colors or temps so the plant grows out with internodes that at maturity are

roughly equally apart, with consideration to the plants height and girth

come budding time just go 100% warm white or 2700k

read a wiki on kelvin oe color temperature is a good idea, you will only have to do it once

good luck 'B'(v)

I would use all four bulbs, as you don't have an abundance of horsepower

Everything noted. Thank you guys!

i personally dont think mixing lights is a good idea and imo gives u a slower flower time and higher risk of accidently re-vegging.... again this is just my opinion tho i dont have any proof or science behind it... 2700k is meant for flowering 6500k is meant for vegging, why fix it if its not broke... id get more 2700k lights

I will be running 2x spectres untill the end of the flowering, so i can see myself how it will affect the plants. I have posted new photos in my grow journal so you can see how it already affected them.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/royal-queen-1-and-power-plant-first-grow-ever.877361/page-2

daloudpack said:

i personally dont think mixing lights is a good idea and imo gives u a slower flower time and higher risk of accidently re-vegging.... again this is just my opinion tho i dont have any proof or science behind it... 2700k is meant for flowering 6500k is meant for vegging, why fix it if its not broke... id get more 2700k lights

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because imvho it's best to try to mimic the suns output as much as possible....so you go hps/mh throughout the entire grow, t-5's on seeedlings,1-2 week veggin is AWESOME, t-5's as supplimental lighting is wonderful also imho. I have never been happier!

using 6500k for flowering definirely does not make your flower time longer. I used to only use mh through flower and my buds finished on par timewise with hps.

ISK said:

I would use all four bulbs, as you don't have an abundance of horsepower

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Got meh a hemi...........

Thats some serious stuff

I will stick to t-neon

not at all my brother.......i started out like you......... I took an old hippies advice here and watched craigslist for hid equipment, i spent 250.00 cash on everything you saw for hid's in those pics. T-5's produce wonderful meds in fact riddlem3 here uses them ALL through his grows to great success, i just found they took longer to get mature under t-5's and the t-5's didint hit the lower canopy like i needed.

https://www.rollitup.org/members/riddleme.171313/

Any way you can mount those two fixtures at an angle in the upper corners? Seems like the light angles would be more efficient, it seems like the outside beams on both fixtures only hits the wall....

Why not to weld them together