Quote Originally Posted by warfrat73
I'm a bit confused about the 125w Red light and two 30w blue light thing. I see 2 CFLs which are presumably 23w, is that what you are referring to as the "blue lights"? It seems quite unlikely that a plant that small with that much soil relative to its size needs to be watered more than a couple of times a week.
thats kinda what i figured myself too... they *could* be 30W CFLs i suppose... i've never seen a 30w cfl but i;m sure they exist.

that being said... i kinda wish when people talked about CFLs they would always reference their lumen count & colour temp. there is such inequality amoung CFLs that even just saying its a 23w CFL doesn;t really maen a whole lot.

I think the real problem stems from incadescent lights where everybody got the notion in their head that watts = light output and they don;t understand that watts is actually a measurement of used energy and actually has nothing to do with light output. Its kind of another one of those things where manufacturing companies have used poor marketting to enforce incorrect information.