6500k or 2700k....need help?

i have 2 plants right now under 6 26w(100 watt equivalent) cfls....im not sure if they are 6500k or 2700k but i heard you should have both of them....im 1 month into vegging and plan on flowering with cfls...help please!

Check out this tutorial, it should help you out alot.
https://www.rollitup.org/cfl-growing/107992-tutorial-growing-cfls.html

so i went to wally world today and picked up a 42w(150 Equiv) i believe its 6500k but who knows i couldn't find it anywhere on the box...its big ha....

also after reading some other threads i think im going to switch to 24/0 light cycle to speed up growth....this sound like a good plan to anyone?

i had mine on 24 hours and seemed to work out great, but i've read a lot since and i've heard people say plants always need some dark periods for growth , also that the difference between 24/0 and 18/6 is not that big as far as growing but can save money on electricity so why not turn em off...i think i may do like 20/4 on my next go round, just to be different, haha, but good luck.

gckrek3 said:

so i went to wally world today and picked up a 42w(150 Equiv) i believe its 6500k but who knows i couldn't find it anywhere on the box...its big ha....

also after reading some other threads i think im going to switch to 24/0 light cycle to speed up growth....this sound like a good plan to anyone?

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Was it GE? And in a box rather than a plastic package?

It's for your flowering stage. It's a softwhite.

I could only tell that after reading the entire back and it says "Compared to a softwhite blah blah"

oh shit you're right....yes it was a GE and it does say something to the effect of "equiv of such a number of soft white" so fuck. i could return it...probably gonna do that. they don't have the big 6500k ones...not sure where to look other than walmart and lowes etc...

also...would it be a bad idea to switch to 24/0 for a short time? or would switching cycles back and forth be bad....

im thinking of flowering soon...plants are around 8 inches tall because i don't have much room. realistically how big will they be? i know there are many different variables. i have seen plants almost triple in size.

gckrek3 said:

oh shit you're right....yes it was a GE and it does say something to the effect of "equiv of such a number of soft white" so fuck. i could return it...probably gonna do that. they don't have the big 6500k ones...not sure where to look other than walmart and lowes etc...

also...would it be a bad idea to switch to 24/0 for a short time? or would switching cycles back and forth be bad....

im thinking of flowering soon...plants are around 8 inches tall because i don't have much room. realistically how big will they be? i know there are many different variables. i have seen plants almost triple in size.

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If youre going to flip to flowering then you may as well keep the 42w GE you got at walmart. Get a few more too.

And yes, double to trip in size during flower is correct!

Honestly I am not convinced that the spectrum makes that big of a difference. I have been vegging with a bulb that is much "redder" then I thought it was and my plants have been growing fine. The only reason I know is because tonight I picked up some true 6500K 27w bulbs for my new veg box and wow....they look blue compared to the 23w bulbs I had been using. But my plants still grew. Will they grow better/faster under the correct spectrum, sure they will. Can you veg and flower with the same bulb....no doubt....just wont be optimized.

My veg box/clone box now has 4x27w @6500K and 2x23w @ unknown K. I will say, stay away from the "Bright Effects" bulbs they sell at Lowes. I can not find the color spectrum of those bulbs anywhere. They look much "bluer" then my 42w 2700K bulbs but much redder then my 27w 6500K bulbs. For all I know they probably that light spectrum that is right in the area that plants don't absorb. I may box them up and return them because they suck.

Basement, what cfl light set-up are you using ?? I'm confused between all the different spiral bulbs and all the tube style bulbs, although the tube sttyles are still cfl's.

In.The.Basement said:

i had mine on 24 hours and seemed to work out great, but i've read a lot since and i've heard people say plants always need some dark periods for growth , also that the difference between 24/0 and 18/6 is not that big as far as growing but can save money on electricity so why not turn em off...i think i may do like 20/4 on my next go round, just to be different, haha, but good luck.

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gckrek3 said:

so i went to wally world today and picked up a 42w(150 Equiv) i believe its 6500k but who knows i couldn't find it anywhere on the box...its big ha....

also after reading some other threads i think im going to switch to 24/0 light cycle to speed up growth....this sound like a good plan to anyone?

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The soft white (2700K) generally come in green packaging. The daylight (6500K) generally come in blue packaging.

Lowes is like the king of lightbulbs, they have everything in there. I buy my bulbs at Wal-mart, nothing wrong with saving a few bucks.