Does she look alright?

My lil' one is about a week old... I think she's looking pretty healthy... I haven't been watering her really and I definitely haven't given her any nutes. She's under 2 CFL, 100 watts a piece and I have a fan blowing on her. Temperature is about 66-72 degrees depending on the time of day. I have the lights on her 24/7.

Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.

She seems to be doing ok...tell me, are thos 2700k warm white cfl's? Because they look kinda red.For veg you need 6500k, or cool white cfl's...they have a bluish tint.

DunnaMang said:

My lil' one is about a week old... I think she's looking pretty healthy... I haven't been watering her really and I definitely haven't given her any nutes. She's under 2 CFL, 100 watts a piece and I have a fan blowing on her. Temperature is about 66-72 degrees depending on the time of day. I have the lights on her 24/7.

Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.

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Yeah, they're the 2700K.. so I gotta get the 6500k then? Not all the boxes at Lowe's say how many K the bulbs are... any way for me to figure it out?

easy... I was lookin round in there the other day... the ones that say daylight on em are what you are lookin for.

So if they say daylight I need not worry about how many K they are?

the ones at Lowes yes... dont know about the rest, but they should be a blue tint of light also when pluggesd in, you wil def be able to tell the difference in the two.

Yeah but I don't want to have to buy the bulbs in order to tell the difference... Does anyone know of a convertor for bulbs? maybe a lumens to K convertor? There's got to be a way to tell.

They should say,and yeah daylight are the right spectrum,but you'll need to find some big ones.They do have decent ones at walmart, but you'll need plenty.Here's what they look like.http://www.changethelight.org/product_info.php?products_id=1

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Yeah, they're the 2700K.. so I gotta get the 6500k then? Not all the boxes at Lowe's say how many K the bulbs are... any way for me to figure it out?

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I don't think lumens are what you're looking for.Lumens are just how bright the bulb is, I think.K, or kelvin, is the spectrum of the light, red, green, blue, etc.What you want to do is try to mimic the natural growing conditions as best you can..so in the spring, plants get more blue light, and in the autumn, it switches toward the red end of the spectrum.

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Yeah but I don't want to have to buy the bulbs in order to tell the difference... Does anyone know of a convertor for bulbs? maybe a lumens to K convertor? There's got to be a way to tell.

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k is for Kelvin and that is mre or less the color (spectrum)... lumens is how bright