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All right here is a question, when growing with cfl's would using coloured cfl mixed in with the rest of them aid or hinder the growth. Blue for veg and red for budding. i thought it might be a interesting topic, if anyone has done it let us know what were your results.
Filtered lights = lower efficiency and more heat, not what you want.
but in the scenario i proposed you would use 1 in conjunction with your regular light set-up to add more of the spectrum of light for the stage of growth, blue for veg and red for budding
Unless those colored lights are of the correct kelvin temp color?...the plants won't see the PAR difference. IMO. ...........(which, don't mean much...:glugglug:)
What we see, is not the plants see...cause,...their fucking plants...:thumbsup:...no eyes...comprende?
sound reasoning, good point
I would just keep CFl for veg white, but for flower i would get the red. :hippy:
never hurts to try :cool:
:thumbsup: to hell with it bro, give it a try! itd be quite an undertaking if u did an experiment with 1 plant exposed to such lights with other lights mixed, and one with just regular cfls... i asked myself the same question when buying my lights so an answer would be grand
I have used the colored lights you are talking about. I tried the blue ones for veg. I was using three blue bulbs and 1 white cfl. The plant was very short, and obviously wasn't getting enough light. The blue cfl's were 23w, while the white was 43w. The colored bulbs aren't as bright,(even compared to a 23w white cfl.) and produce more heat. I found negative results, maybe i just needed more blue CFL's, but why go that route when white CFl's work better.