Is this a good buy??

[Kevin A]

http://cgi.ebay.com/4HUGE-6500K-CFL-PLANT-GROWLIGHT-BULBS-Mushroom-Design-/280618335063?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415627fb57

 

[shmow52]

hahahahaha, no.
wow really?
Fact is, The plant can normally use 10-30% of that light made.. with this light, the plant uses almost all available lumens and light emitted ,

 

[incognegro999]

haha 65 bucks for 42 watt cfls is terrible. You can get the same amount of watts at home depot or lowes for less than half of that. check out 1000bulbs.com for cfls i prefer smaller bulbs like 23 26 watt you can place the more instead of a couple big ones. However have seen people have success with big ones.. But anyways that is scam do not buy that shit

 

[Smokey11]

Yeah 4bulbs for $65 plus $15 s&h $80 not good!! go to home depot!

Edit: I got my 68 watters at home depot for 14.95 each you could get 5 of them for less than the ones your looking at

 

[Kevin A]

thanks for the advice. Im glad i asked first.

 

[Smokey11]

No problem you have a grow going? or doing research to start one up?

 

[Kevin A]

I dont have one up yet. But im doing some research. I think im gonna grow in Coco soil and use CFL's for my lighting

 

[HippySmoke]

Your local wally world likely has a decent deal on the smaller cfl's but the net such as ebay and amazon can save you a lot of money on the 125Watt and higher cfl's but 26 through 68 are best purchased offline. (Home depot has 68 watters in 2700K for $18 or something like that)

 

[Smokey11]

cool! sounds good!! check out my grow if you get a chance!

 

[Smokey11]

Your local wally world likely has a decent deal on the smaller cfl's but the net such as ebay and amazon can save you a lot of money on the 125Watt and higher cfl's but 26 through 68 are best purchased offline. (Home depot has 68 watters in 2700K for $18 or something like that)

Yeah my 68 watters are 2700K they were 14.95 @ HD

 

[Derple]

nahh, i would say you can get better elsewhere

 

[Derple]

not to bring you down or anything man

 

[bossm]

they have those 42 watt at walmart for like 9 ucks each and they have the 55watt cfls for 13.95 each i believe so that is a rip off be glad you asked before you bought but yea walmart 42 for 9 and 55 for 13

 

[Kevin A]

So im a little confused, Which CFL would be best for me??

 

[incognegro999]

Any watt cfl will work you want the color temp 6500k for veg and 2700k for flowering. You can a couple say 42 watters or 6-7 of the smaller ones

http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/36858/FC23-S65.html these are an example of veg bulbs

http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/4566/FC27-137158.html these are flower

When I used them I used a mix of both so during Veg phase I would have 80% veg bulbs and a couple flower bulbs and opposite for flowering

 

[incognegro999]

Heres a link to my journal when I was using CFL'S. I liked the shoplights from walmart they were ten bucks and another five bucks for 2 four foot 6500 bulbs.

 

[Balzac89]

Anyone thats cheaper than what u posted ll

 

[incognegro999]

Anyone thats cheaper than what u posted ll

haha exactly