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09-07-2006, 03:07 AM #1OPSenior Member
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?
qdavid Reviewed by qdavid on . 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 Rating: 5
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09-07-2006, 05:58 PM #2Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
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\"If what shone afar so grand,
Turn to nothing in thy hand,
On again; the virtue lies
In struggle, not the prize.\"--R. M. Milnes.
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09-07-2006, 09:38 PM #3Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
Originally Posted by qdavid
PUF,PUFF PASS PIMP:joint1:
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09-07-2006, 09:58 PM #4Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
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?
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09-07-2006, 11:01 PM #5OPSenior Member
Soft white cfls again?
Yo, bigbud. I've seen your threads. You be a rightous grower dude. Good for you.
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09-08-2006, 07:44 AM #6Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
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\"If what shone afar so grand,
Turn to nothing in thy hand,
On again; the virtue lies
In struggle, not the prize.\"--R. M. Milnes.
Hugh Miller said the only school in which he was properly taught
was \"that world-wide school in which toil and hardship are the
severe but noble teachers.\"
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09-09-2006, 03:41 AM #7Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
Originally Posted by BlueBear
and they're good for flowering :thumbsup:PUF,PUFF PASS PIMP:joint1:
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09-09-2006, 04:12 AM #8Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
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.
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09-09-2006, 04:20 PM #9OPSenior Member
Soft white cfls again?
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.
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09-09-2006, 04:53 PM #10Senior Member
Soft white cfls again?
Originally Posted by qdavid
PUF,PUFF PASS PIMP:joint1:
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