Preventing leaf-burn

I have a desk-lamp with a 60w CFL over my newly-sprouted plant. The part of the lamp around the bulb is metal, and it gets warm, which I believe is causing the burn of the sprout. Is there anything I could line the inside of the lamp with to prevent leaf burn? Could I line it with regular computer paper or something? I just don't want the plant to burn is all.

that metal part you refer to is the reflector or? if this happen to be a mirror polished one you can coat it with heat-resistant TiO2 paint for example, but the paint has to be heat-resistant . don't use paper or anything or you will have a nice fire going there.

by the way, 60W CFL is pretty big for a desk lamp, could you post a pic of it please? it sound a bit like you rather got a 60W halogen instead of an CFL, and halogens don't put out much light but heat nor are they in the right range of light spec to veg or flower with.

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Same brand as that, only 60w instead of 100. I'm pretty sure it's not halogen.

so you grow with a 17W CFL it ain't 60W

sorry for that one

on other way to prevent burns is not to mist during light cycle and avoiding per-nuted soils such as miracle-shit, in general finger off time released nutes!
and add a fan to your grow, so building heat is moved away from the plants

17w, my bad.

And yea, I don't mist at all. I add water directly to the soil every couple days or so. I don't use nutes either, not yet anyways.

Thanks for the tips man.

you welcome, every time again dude