UV Lighting question

curious618

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So I have had my seedlings outdoors from the start. We were having some crazy weather last night and today so I put them up in my shop overnight. This morning, instead of putting them back outside I just turned two 17W UV basic work lights and put them under it for the day. They seem to be responding GREAT! This is just a temp solution(maybe a few days) but is this sufficient enough lighting while they’re still in the cups? They seem to like it!
 

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curious618

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Fluorescent shop lights are fine for seedings for a few days. At that stage, they don't require tons of light.
Sweet. Sunday they will be two weeks old and my tent, light, etc. will get here Tues. so just a bandaid til then. Glad to hear it will work. Thanks
 

curious618

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Fluorescent shop lights are fine for seedings for a few days. At that stage, they don't require tons of light.
So another question on this....would it be advisable or worth it to hand these lamps in the grow tent in addition to my main light? It’s a 2000w Higrow “LED” putting out 400w. Would the 38 extra watts of UV make a difference? Tent is a 2x4x5.
 

StareCase

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... So another question on this....would it be advisable or worth it to hand these lamps in the grow tent in addition to my main light? It’s a 2000w Higrow “LED” putting out 400w. Would the 38 extra watts of UV make a difference? Tent is a 2x4x5 ...
Personally, I wouldn't bother. Less than 40 watts will not be that beneficial with the 400 watt blurple you have.
 

Renfro

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Exactly what UV light is it? Link?

It doesn't take a lot of UV to have an effect, but it's best saved for late flower. Too much and you can burn the plants. If you see the leaves turn shiny like a coating of wax then it's too much. Past that you get actual burn.

Are they inside or outside plants? Remember bringing in plants from the outside can carry pests into your tent infecting other plants you may have.
 

curious618

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Exactly what UV light is it? Link?

It doesn't take a lot of UV to have an effect, but it's best saved for late flower. Too much and you can burn the plants. If you see the leaves turn shiny like a coating of wax then it's too much. Past that you get actual burn.

Are they inside or outside plants? Remember bringing in plants from the outside can carry pests into your tent infecting other plants you may have.
Idk it was left in the shop with the house when we bought it. My guess is it’s a harbor freight special. They have been outside but crazy weather had me bring them in last night and put under UV lights today cause of the wind and overcast.
 

piratebug

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According to my lighting database higrow 2000 puts out 294 to 304 total lighting watts, and the rest of the 386 to 402 watts read at the wall is used by the cooling fans 48 - 52 watts, and the rest is attributed to driver loss as the drivers on that unit are not very efficient, 18 - 22% loss! Yeah, you shouldn't ever believe what most of those Chinese LED lighting companies quote about their lights. And believe this or not, the light you have isn't that bad because there many of those Chinese LED lighting companies that will tell their lights put out a certain amount of light (lumens or par, etc) and most times it isn't even half of what they stated!
 

piratebug

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I am considering using these to add UVa to a 2ft by 4ft tent grow https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074N26GJT/?coliid=I3U2A1VXVQD21Y&colid=AW7UKM9ED6GM&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it any opinions? I am using 4000K bridgelux eb strips for my main light with these for extra red https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BPWD1LY/?coliid=I1CSTV4QAYYO2X&colid=AW7UKM9ED6GM&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it I am a T5 grower and this is a test grow.

For finishing, whether using LEDS or HID(s)... starting at the beginning of week 6 , 2 x 4' HO ATI Coral+, or 2 x 4' HO Agromax Finisher, and for all the way through flower... 2 x 4' HO Hortilux PowerVEG FS+UV work really nice. And for me the best finisher goes to ATI, but for best all the way through flower goes to the HO Hortilux, but the best over all for me goes to using the Agromax Pure UV from week 1 of flower, at 1 minute interval per each hour @ 24 inches during each light on cycle. So that would be 12 / 1 minute UV light on cycles per hour during each 12 hour flowering light on cycle, and using 2 x 4' HO ATI Coral+ from the beginning of week 6 to harvest makes really nice buds into super sticky buds, happy me! Yeah, if you truly want to add real uv or high K wavelengths to optimize your indoor bud building during late flower, using fluro(s) are really the only way to do that at the present time. And when I said... using fluro(s) are really the only way to add uv / high K wavelengths to ones grow right now, that's because no other lighting source whether it's HID, CMH, or LED, can actually put out a uniformed array of radiating uv / high k wavelengths that fluro(s) can presently do, and they do it oh' so well.
 

mauricem00

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For finishing, whether using LEDS or HID(s)... starting at the beginning of week 6 , 2 x 4' HO ATI Coral+, or 2 x 4' HO Agromax Finisher, and for all the way through flower... 2 x 4' HO Hortilux PowerVEG FS+UV work really nice. And for me the best finisher goes to ATI, but for best all the way through flower goes to the HO Hortilux, but the best over all for me goes to using the Agromax Pure UV from week 1 of flower, at 1 minute interval per each hour @ 24 inches during each light on cycle. So that would be 12 / 1 minute UV light on cycles per hour during each 12 hour flowering light on cycle, and using 2 x 4' HO ATI Coral+ from the beginning of week 6 to harvest makes really nice buds into super sticky buds, happy me! Yeah, if you truly want to add real uv or high K wavelengths to optimize your indoor bud building during late flower, using fluro(s) are really the only way to do that at the present time. And when I said... using fluro(s) are really the only way to add uv / high K wavelengths to ones grow right now, that's because no other lighting source whether it's HID, CMH, or LED, can actually put out a uniformed array of radiating uv / high k wavelengths that fluro(s) can presently do, and they do it oh' so well.
I'm a T5 grower and use retile bulbs for that but when I have a little extra money I like to play with LEDs and this is a pure LED grow.but the new hoticultural bulbs do work.I have been following the coral growers and it seems that some are using 6500k MH bulbs to get UVA and UVB.
 
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