CFL's with light gel colorization?

Another potentially idiotic newbie question here.

I'm doing a very small closet grow, 4 plants - 3 Afghans and 1 generic whatever that came free with my seeds - and I'd read recently that flowering requires warmer (3500k) light. I have 2 150w extended CFL's and 2 100w small ones, all in the "daylight" (5500) spectrum.

Would yellow gel paper filter the lights and give me more of a warm color spectrum for budding? Or would it just block too many lumens?

Thanks for any and all opinions.

red plastic? jk.. I think the spectrum has to be generated, it cant be mimicked.

Wow no don't do that.

HighLife4Me said:

red plastic? jk.. I think the spectrum has to be generated, it cant be mimicked.

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Agreed.. has to be generated, only time you'd get away with something like that would be if you were -filtering- (see: removing) specific spectrums from the equation for a reason I couldn't begin to guess at - unless you were doing spectrum testing vs strain response with a solid standard/benchmark to work form.

Figong said:

Agreed.. has to be generated, only time you'd get away with something like that would be if you were -filtering- (see: removing) specific spectrums from the equation for a reason I couldn't begin to guess at - unless you were doing spectrum testing vs strain response with a solid standard/benchmark to work form.

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Okay, I'll accept the group's opinion that this is not the way to go. lol

In regards to this last answer, however, yellow gels DO remove blues, in particular. I've worked a lot on stage prod. crews. That's what gels do, they don't ADD anything - light hue is subtractive. Just like blue-blocker sunglasses are yellow as well - they remove blue. Here's the scope on the particular gel I had in mind.

https://www.stageandtheaterlighting.com/images/medium/products/475_med.jpg