How to distinguish my CFLs? (WILL REP)
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bigbillyrocka
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i have a smaller cfl in one of my rooms for "actual" light and is the least output of all of mine. its only a 60 watt equiv (orange-ish color) whereas my cfl's for growing are 100 watt equiv.
paperplanesmoker
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No man I use a variety of 27k and 65k in my cab, and you can really tell between the daylight and amber ones. I have noticed that the 27k's are usually marked while the 65k aren't?? lol but I know for sure that 27k for flowering are really yellow just me 2 cents brah.
man its just that...today i went to lowes and 90% of the cfls were 2700k. yet like 90% of the cfls at my house and my friends house are bright bright white...so i put two and two together....and figured that bright bright white must be be 2700k since thats mostly what they sell at lowes and almost all the bulbs ive seen are bright white. :/ if that makes any damn sense lol
one on very bottom is a 2700k right? its the most orange out of all of them
stumps
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Color Temperature (CT) - Color temperature, which is measured in Kelvin, indicates whether a lamp has a warm, midrange or cool color appearance. "Warm" light sources have a low color temperature (2000-3000K) and feature more light in the red/orange/yellow range. Light with a higher color temperature (>5000K) features more blue light and is referred to as "cool."
Higher k light looks whiter. Most of the small cfl's hit 5000k not 6500k
Higher k light looks whiter. Most of the small cfl's hit 5000k not 6500k
shotnva777
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Yup, makes sense.... Use "daylight" style bulbs for veg (blueish/whiteish and also IMPOSSIBLE to find in 300 Watt equivalents btw - lemme know if u find somewhere that does carry these PLEASE! Home Depot does in soft white but not daylight, same brand and fuckin stupid!!) Any ways use "soft white" style bulbs for flowering, they're more of an orangish/yellow color.... Its pretty easy to determine bro, just takes looking at them long enough (which btw blinds you) ! Lol.... I like to mix em up though, as someone has already previously mentioned! Actually I grew my entire grow with NOTHING but soft whites, start to finish. Huge buds, may even do that shit again.... Haha! Mistakes make you a smarter grower and misery is motivation to be a BETTER grower! Keep those plants UNmiserable and you'll be to!
Happy growing!!
dew-b
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turn them on if they have a white or blue color they are for veg the yellow/orange are for flower. then after you figure out witcj is witch mark them with a sharpe.
ca$hcropper
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Bulbs marked bright white, or soft white are in the 27k flower bulb, while daylight, or as I've seen ones in blue packages are 65k veg bulbs, hope this helps
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dew-b
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buy one of each to compair the unknowens to.
Sunbiz1
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Try Menards for those high wattage veg bulbs, in fact their entire electrical departments blow away Home Depot.