fluorestant lights!

hi all,
ok
i live in england and i need to know what type of fluorescent lights i shoudl buy for my seedlinds and early veg? Also where can i buy them?
i went to local diy store but the women behind counter was as helpful as cancer and it was all i could do to not scream at her for being so fucking stupid. All they had (so she said) were 4 foot strip lights. well fuck that, i want to get some of those nice curly ones i see on pics on this site all the time!
Also do different makes have different spectrums? are some utterly useless or can i just buy anyone and it will work? probs not i know.
cheers guys
greeny

You want to buy Compact Fluorescent Lights. Get the highest possible wattage. And thats before any energy saving rating which will be a higher figure. You should be able to find some that are 40+ watts at a hardware/lighting type store.

cheers elcheapo.
i will have a snoop about and see what i can find.
asking the 95 year old store helper in focus got me taken to the decrotive lighting section of the store. Then i asked him if they had any basic plant foods high in P. he thought i was taking p out of him. idiots everywhere.
cheers again cheapo

in flourecents ... the tubes called "cool white' will be your 'blue' wave lights, and the 'natural light', or 'warm' lamps will be your 'red' lights, ... use two red to each blue, if possible.... veg with the blues ,and flower with the reds :smokin:

cheers reaper. going to use blues only as i have hps for flowering. getting a envirolight 125 in next week or so. should be enough for what i have in mind!!
nice 1

green mate just use any house flour bulb u knwo the energy saver ones that go into a normal plug the ones u get like 5 for £10 at 25watts each 5 will do wonders :D

also those flourecent desklamps u knwo the long ones on a clap those r great and u can get them anywhere hold on ill find pic of what to look for at homebase or b&q






here ya go

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/46292i0.jpg

bulbs^^

desklamp = http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...CMZZZZZZZ_.jpg i find these clamp desklmap great fro seedlings

I am vegging with a 2' 4 bulb T5 unit. I am only using the 6500k bulbs. The plants have very close nodes and are bushy as hell. They were under 2 of the compact florecent spiral bulbs for the first 2 weeks and I was not impressed with the growth that occured. 2 weeks under the T5's and they are simply beautiful now.

Btw, how are your plants doing now under the envirolite.

Im up to eight overhead 4-footers now, with capability to add eight more for flowering, from the sides or below ... not sure yet, if I will ... having pretty good rate of growth with the prresent 320-watt setup ... pain in the ass to raise and lower, kinda like pumping iron, who says growing pot aint good for your health ?? ... :smokin:

Why are compact floresants much better than normal floresant lights. What the fuck are environlights. Newbie question yes but please answer.

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Originally Posted by MegaOctane12

Why are compact floresants much better than normal floresant lights. What the fuck are environlights. Newbie question yes but please answer.

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CFL = Compact Fluorescent Lights.

They aren't better than normal fluorescents... they're just more, (guess!!!), compact!!!

And if they're more compact, you can place them better around/over/besides your plants. That's it, really.

E N V I R O L I T E
Are this big ass CFL lights... they come in various sizes, I think the biggest is 200Watts... They're good because they're made for growing... so, you can get the light spectrums you need for vegetative, and the spectrums you need for flowering.