mirror's or solid white wall's?

I was just wondering I have the stuff to make a veg closet and make all 4 wall's and door with mirror's I never heard of anyone doing it but I want to see if someone has and if it worked or was a waste of time LEMME KNOW THANKS!!
Kali...

I vote: flat white walls

as long as you have a high powered light, you dont really need to mirror/mylar/foil the walls. id say its more trouble than its worth.

white walls, looks cleaner. Mirrors do a terrible job at reflecting light and are expensive. White walls will be more sanitary too.

deff flat white.

Flat white

flat white...not glossy and deff not mirrors...why not mirrors? because the light travels through the glas to hit the reflective stuff and then back through the glass to your plant...this mean that a mirror actually absorbs light.

jsgrwn said:

flat white...not glossy and deff not mirrors...why not mirrors? because the light travels through the glas to hit the reflective stuff and then back through the glass to your plant...this mean that a mirror actually absorbs light.

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Hi jsgrwn - i have seen this mentioned before (i think it was in some marijuana growing bible or book or something) but it isn't really true about mirrors absorbing light. I mean yes, everything absorbs light to some degree (except of course - light) but mirrors are one of the more perfect reflectors of light. The problem with using mirrors for growing is they can create hot spots if the angle of the mirror and bulb line up just right. If you want to see this for yourself, take a bright flashlight and shine it into a mirror and move the flashlight around until you are looking at the bulb through the mirror. Very bright isn't it? i wouldn't call that absorbing the light.

Sorry if it feels like i'm picking on you - i'm really not. i've just seen this fallacy repeated because of that book and for some reason it gets me uptight (time to take a smoke break!). anyway - a physics 101 book should clear up any doubt.

well its 7-1 but I dont know mirrors just seem tight and you said its expensive I got a shit load of mirrors so its really not but but I think ill go with flat white 7-1 is better odds thanks!
Kali...

paint the mirros flat white = 0

i use mirrors

i use mirrors, and have never had a problem for me they work much better i use them on the floor and on the lower part.

flat white reflects more light than mirrors. Fact

i think email468 said it best everything absorbs light, but the thing about most glass is that it is mass produced, imperfect and under the right magnification it is not very clear at all...the light when shined through it refracts.

i am not one to say dymantics but all i know is my plants have never been bigger, and if i ever have to build another box i am sticking with mirrors.

if it works for you then why change, right

Not to pick but why do you put mirrors on the floor? plants do not absorb light from the bottom of their leafs.

ebolick said:

i use mirrors, and have never had a problem for me they work much better i use them on the floor and on the lower part.

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no worries on picking on me i use them to reflect the light up so the under branches get plenty of light as well so not only is the top of the plant getting direct light so does the bottom.

Hey mr0007 i noticed you have a link to weedfarmer, i am a regular there what is going on with that site? i cant find the forums

wow I was just wondering just if anyone cares I chose to paint the walls a solid white