lights, cool or warm, kinda just starting

hey just curious ne tips would help,,, my plant is about 2n a half months old its n my closet n the basement its gets 24hrs of light is that good or bad or ok???? ummm i went to walmart the other day i picked up some 42inch daytime cooler fluorescent lights its n the back corner n the closet and the lights r proped up against the wall wit the plant under n the middle,,, i put foil up behind the plant on the wall and thers a fan about 5 feet away blowing on low n all directions good idea?? bad idea?? i do have 1pic up right now im tryin to upload a few more but my comp is being dumb the pic up now is like 3days old,, but the set up is still the same only new thing is just the foil behind on the wall,,, 1 more ??? should i be using cool lighs or warm lights or can i do 1 of each lighs thanks 4 ne suggestions

TBH you need more light fullstop. your 2 1/2 month old is equivalent to a normal 2 week old. You need 6500k for veg (cool) and 2700k (warm) for flower. Floro's are really good for cloning or seedlings but unless you have lots and lots of them you will struggle to get anything for the time you will wait. My advice get some more light!

now 6500k what kind of lights r these and can i get them from walmart?? and r they the long bulbs or something totally different ???? lol im tryin to work on this now as im sheckin this 4 advice

google kelvin then lumen, I dont know about Walmart as Im in the Uk.

i just need something i can get around town r there ne good light bulbs i can purchase that would do a lil better

calilove said:

i just need something i can get around town r there ne good light bulbs i can purchase that would do a lil better

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I believe 42w cfls would do the trick and from what Ive read on here are readily available in walmart. As I said earlier veg you need cool (6500k) and flower warm (2700k) in an ideal world.

lol thanks so much 4 the help just 1 more ??? please umm how many of these 42wat cfls should i go buy to equal out 6500k for veg? and for flowering how many cfls equal out to 2700k should i get? i mean i prolly still have a while to go be4 it starts to flower... and when its n the flowering stage that means less light and its at the stage were it starts to bud is that what flowering is?

calilove said:

lol thanks so much 4 the help just 1 more ??? please umm how many of these 42wat cfls should i go buy to equal out 6500k for veg? and for flowering how many cfls equal out to 2700k should i get? i mean i prolly still have a while to go be4 it starts to flower... and when its n the flowering stage that means less light and its at the stage were it starts to bud is that what flowering is?

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I wouldnt need to answer this if you had googled kelvin and lumen! Knowing and understanding are different things my friend. By just answering all of you Q.s you arent learning anything. Please learn what a Kelvin is then you will understand that lumens are greater with more bulbs but Kelvins are the rating of a bulb, equivalent (or not) to natural light.

Kelvin has to do with the light spectrum, and the lumens are just the amount of light that it puts out. Correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that is correct.

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