Soft white cfls again?

I don't mean to obsess about this shit but I just wanna do the best I can and want to avoid hassles before they happen. I kinda started out bad. I was trying to veg using 4-42W soft white cfls, was told I was fucking up, went and got cool whites, and my grow improved. But my babies are only a week old so not much yet anyway. I just spent hours searching for info about the soft whites. GE just started marketing them pretty heavily but they don't talk about the kelvin temp a lot. The cool whites I bought (I got 6 of 'em going by the way) are GE and list the kevin temp (6500k) but the soft whites don't. From what I found I think those 42W GE soft whites are 2700k which is good for flowering but I'm just not sure. Does anyone know the kelvin temp GE soft whites?

They are not 27K The warm are. Just stay away from those Soft whites IMO and in everyone else's opinions also from everything that I have ever read related to using them on this plant.
Adieu

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by qdavid

I don't mean to obsess about this shit but I just wanna do the best I can and want to avoid hassles before they happen. I kinda started out bad. I was trying to veg using 4-42W soft white cfls, was told I was fucking up, went and got cool whites, and my grow improved. But my babies are only a week old so not much yet anyway. I just spent hours searching for info about the soft whites. GE just started marketing them pretty heavily but they don't talk about the kelvin temp a lot. The cool whites I bought (I got 6 of 'em going by the way) are GE and list the kevin temp (6500k) but the soft whites don't. From what I found I think those 42W GE soft whites are 2700k which is good for flowering but I'm just not sure. Does anyone know the kelvin temp GE soft whites?

---

yes soft white are the warm yellow tint bulbs,now remember cool white are not soft white;cool whites are those daylight,full spectrum and sunlight bulbs and they are for vegging:thumbsup:also soft white can be 2700k i know they are warm color k bulbs

BlueBear iv got the exact bulbs that ''qdavid'' is talking about and im getting 3 1/2 ounces per plant .So why should people stay away from them?. I veg and flower with these bulbs and at day 14-16 my plants are at there 5th-6th nodes?

Yo, bigbud. I've seen your threads. You be a rightous grower dude. Good for you.

You are right if they are the 2700K then that is the warm, but the real soft are not 2700k, but then again I guess that different bulb makers lable them differant. I guess that the bottem line is that folks need to pay more attintion to the K than anything in some cases. Come to think of it the CFL's in my veg/mother cab said something like "spring warm" or something and it threw me off untill I read the K.
Not trying to mis lead anyone, thanks for the correction Big Bud
Adieu

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BlueBear

You are right if they are the 2700K then that is the warm, but the real soft are not 2700k, but then again I guess that different bulb makers lable them differant. I guess that the bottem line is that folks need to pay more attintion to the K than anything in some cases. Come to think of it the CFL's in my veg/mother cab said something like "spring warm" or something and it threw me off untill I read the K.
Not trying to mis lead anyone, thanks for the correction Big Bud
Adieu

---

im not sure if its exacly 2700k but im sure its close
and they're good for flowering :thumbsup:

The warm spectrums I'm using when I get to flowering are 42Watt, 2600 lumens and are also 2700K.

That said, the more I've thought about it, the more I think that when you say you're using soft whites people think of incandescents. Because the soft white CFL's all seem to fall at the 2700K mark, and that should be just fine for flowering.

I finally found the definitive answer for FLE42HLX/2/XL/SW. A brochure published by GE states "all bulbs are 2700-3000k unless stated otherwise on the packaging." So I guess I'm good to go to use them for flowering. Like there was ever a doubt in this feable mind.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by qdavid

I finally found the definitive answer for FLE42HLX/2/XL/SW. A brochure published by GE states "all bulbs are 2700-3000k unless stated otherwise on the packaging." So I guess I'm good to go to use them for flowering. Like there was ever a doubt in this feable mind.

---

i knew u would be:thumbsup: