Fluorescent light help

[Gen]

For clones and seedlings what lights do I use. Home Depot had cool white and full spectrum 40watts. Is this what I should use? I could not find any that said warm light.

[puff4twentynow]

spiral cfl's seem to work just fine for me.

[Gen]

Thanks for responding puff. I went to Osh, they had the warm fluor lights.

[Psycho4Bud]

This is a very good vidio that was posted by someone else in here. I watched it last night and the dude advised to use a cool white and a warm white in each fixture. This guy sets up an entire grow room for hydro the basic principle can be used for soil....enjoy. GOOD LUCK!!! :thumbsup:

http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2993.html

[Gen]

Yes, I've seen the video; it's awesome!

[Joel]

Hey gen.

I use to have a grow in fluorecent lighting. I used 5 4ft long fluorecent ballasts, with 2 tubes per ballast. 1 of the tubes out of the 2 in 1 ballast would be a Warm white tube, and the other a Cool white tube, I used this for my entire grow and it came out great.

[Psycho4Bud]

Yes, I've seen the video; it's awesome!


Trichome Creator originally posted it...giving credit where it's due. :thumbsup:

[Gen]

Hey Joel,

How many plants were you growing? How far away did you have the bulbs, one to two inches? Was this your only grow room and if so how did you deal with different size plants. Have you ever noticed any bad effect by having the plants touch the warm bulbs? What watt of bulb were you using? Sorry for the many questions, Newbie disease.

[Joel]

Hello gen.

Yes I find that disease is quite oftenly found, so not new.

I was growing 3 plants, lights were about 3-4inch from tops. Yes each of my 3 plants were different sizes only because we cloned the biggest one twice @ different times.
I did have one night when I started flowering that they grew alot and i didnt notice them touching the bulb and yes they burnt a little bit. Each ballast I had was 60w.

[Gen]

Hey Joel,

I am no electrician either. When you say each ballast was 60w, does that mean each bulb was 30w or each bulb was 60w? Sounds like you were only lighting from the top. So the short plant was raised up.

[harmonicminor]

I can get my flouro setup up to 2 feet away from the tops and still have mad growth. heres what I use....... a 4 bulb teklight t5 with 2 2x overdriven 2 bulb electronic ballast t8 shoplights hung from eack side of teklight. all bulbs are 6500k spectrum. but thats just for vegging, for flower I use a 1000 watt hps lamp with a hortilux bulb.

[harmonicminor]

heres some pics

[harmonicminor]

one more

[Easy Roller]

Hey Harp! Nice plants...do you play? I've got Natural Minor Lee Oskar...But my Honer Marine Band is my fave!
Gen ...The beauty of a few fluoros is you can lower one to get it closer to a smaller plant in an attempt to balance their heights

[harmonicminor]

I play guitar and my account name is actually a music scale not a harmonica. to get more light to smaller plants I can just prop them up with something. only two strings to adjust lamp hieght this way. besides how many of those cfl's would it take to reproduce the results in the last photo??? Imagine the sog I could do under that setup if I were to use it for budding.

[Easy Roller]

I play guitar too ..and mandolin....are they hydro?

[harmonicminor]

not those but I do hydro too.
mandolin tuning is wierd I tried it once but it would take some getting used to. I would like to try a Cello sometime