Masterogkush
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Would I be able to flower my plants with 6500k cfl bulbs?
Question about Flowering
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mystifiedbongs
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yes but being the wrong spectrum of light, your results will be sad at best
Ryan123456
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Not to your liking.
CanadianEh
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Waste of time; might as well take them outside if you're doing that.........
Masterogkush
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Ok so what size HPS ligh should I get for a room 42in,24in,16in.
mystifiedbongs
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how many plants, you can get 150, 250, or 400 MH and HPS from homedepot or lowes
solarguy
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lowes? grow lights? never seen them, seen the halogen ones....
look in the outdoor yardlight section.
solarguy
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oh shiiit, ballasts and everything?
ballast is inside the light, you just add a plug and cord.
mouthmeetsoap
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Have any of you actually did this or seen somebody do this? I personally think it'd work. I've never used a solid blue spectrum before but have always had blue dominant lights as I was very unimpressed with HPS after using it alone. Node spacing and overall quality were not as good as with my ceramic metal halide.
mystifiedbongs
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not the digital ballasts you see, but yeah, hps is normally a street light, and MH is normally used for indoor lighting in big places like sports arenas
you could but you're better off if you add some 2700 K bulbs, you need more light for flowering anyways.
mouthmeetsoap
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Metal Halide also is much closer to natural sunlight than HPS.
solarguy
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look in my signature for the diy your light...this will be fine, it is all cfl but this light and reflector kicks ass. i grew 2 good size bushes with decent yields, hps would of been better but this shit works....use 2700k bulbs for flowering tho, maybe leave in 2 6500 bulbs...
both 2700k and 6500k are full spectrum however the 2700k has a better and deeper red ratio than the 6500 which is more blue...
both 2700k and 6500k are full spectrum however the 2700k has a better and deeper red ratio than the 6500 which is more blue...
mouthmeetsoap
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Brain fart. I do understand they both have the full spectrum but what I'm saying is I've personally found that using more blue than red is beneficial. Red gave me more yield and the foliage seemed to be a little lighter green, but I grow to smoke, so quality is tops.
only if you get a true 6500 K bulb a standard metal halide is a poor grow light.
Masterogkush
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I have four bushes 4 weeks old and a bigger plant. Dont know how old the bigger one is. But I think am about to switch to 12/12 there getting a lil to big and I hear they get 2 to 3x bigger during flower.