please help,did i get wrong light?????

i went to lowes and got a cfl that has 3900 lumens and it says 300 watt but it says 65 watt and i got 2 of them for my plant. it is a bright effects l65tn 300 watt that was $17 each. im not sure if its suppossed to be blue or red?? it says soft white light?

budweiser200 said:

i went to lowes and got a cfl that has 3900 lumens and it says 300 watt but it says 65 watt and i got 2 of them for my plant. it is a bright effects l65tn 300 watt that was $17 each. im not sure if its suppossed to be blue or red?? it says soft white light?

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Soft white is prolly 2700K (red)colour temp. Usually used in Flowering, What you want is 6500K (blue) for veging. These CFL's are also called Daylight. I use both spectrum CFL's all the time.

I've got 'daylight's' that're 5,500k, but still, just like sly said, u want 6,500k for veg, then 2,700k for flower. Most 'daylight' cfl's SHOULD BE 6,500k, but like i said, i've had some that were5,500k too, so look at the base of the bulb, it should say the color temp on there. Also, it's not a bad idea at all have mix in color spectrums throughout plant life.

so would these lights not work?

For vegging, not that ur light wouldn't work, but it wouldn't work EFFECTIVELY. Now, that said, don't throw that light away as u can use it for flowering. Look for some 'daylight' cfl's on the bulb-base itself, and sometimes the package, it will tell u the color temp, what ur lookin for, for veggin, is 6,500k, again these are marked as 'daylight' bulbs. I'd suggest gettin 4, 6,500k's per plant to start out with. Look for the highest ACTUAL WATTS of the bulbs, not the equivelents.

look for the spectrum colour
blue for veggin
red for flower

what light should i get from lowes for the veg? what model?

just ask for a blue spectrum light thats bright
i wouldnt know what make as ur in a different country to me sry...

Get the highest ACTUAL wattage cfl's u can. I believe 100 watters are either 23 or 27watts. They will have them marked as like 100w 'replacement' 23w 'equivelent' then make sure they are marked on the baseof the bulb or the packaging as a 6,500k daylight bulb. My lowes here doesn't sell 6,500k's for some reason, idk, but wal mart has them in 6500k. Just be sure u get the 6500k's and u should be good for veg.

or go and buy a security light...
they come in hps and mh

so would this be bad for my plant? would it still grow?

u can grow a plant off of any light really its just if you want good results you need the right sort!!

budweiser200 said:

so would this be bad for my plant? would it still grow?

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They will be fine. The only difference is that your plant will stretch slightly more, compared to the blue cfls. Keeping the bulbs nice and close will help mitigate this (cfls should be kept close anyway).

ok this is my problem i cant leave my house for personal reason and i had my friend go to lowes a mile away from my house and he doesnt know anything about bud or lights so he couldnt help and i wasnt there to see all the light they had so he said he saw a good light and bought it. im not sure what all lights the lowes by my house has but i guess i need a light that has more then 4,000 lumens right?

budweiser200 said:

ok this is my problem i cant leave my house for personal reason and i had my friend go to lowes a mile away from my house and he doesnt know anything about bud or lights so he couldnt help and i wasnt there to see all the light they had so he said he saw a good light and bought it. im not sure what all lights the lowes by my house has but i guess i need a light that has more then 4,000 lumens right?

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If those are the lights there in the pictures, you're golden. From the pic's they look like the Right Colour Temp. And as you were told earlier. KEEP EM CLOSE. Like 1-2" away the entire grow. You may want to add more as you go.

Why do people believe you cant veg good with softwhite cfls(low color rating).People veg with hps all the time which has the same color rating as the (yellow)cfls.These lights will work fine.Some day i'll do a side by side and i'll bet you the lower color bulb will work better than the daylight.You will be fine using these lights for veg,my 2 cents.Stay Safe!!

ronbud1963 said:

Why do people believe you cant veg good with softwhite cfls(low color rating).People veg with hps all the time which has the same color rating as the (yellow)cfls.These lights will work fine.Some day i'll do a side by side and i'll bet you the lower color bulb will work better than the daylight.You will be fine using these lights for veg,my 2 cents.Stay Safe!!

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I've actually done comparisons on the two- soft white and daylight cfl's. I put one of each bulb in my Y splittter on a seedling and not 2 hours afterwords, the seedling was reaching over to the 6500k, growing towards it considerably. Now as for ur side by side, ur lower temp bulb will natuarally be better in the final stages of growing, i.e. budding, but thats because of the ole color spectrum preference of the plant during certain stages, BUT for the early stages, those softy's wont do what the daylights will.

richjames said:

I've actually done comparisons on the two- soft white and daylight cfl's. I put one of each bulb in my Y splittter on a seedling and not 2 hours afterwords, the seedling was reaching over to the 6500k, growing towards it considerably. Now as for ur side by side, ur lower temp bulb will natuarally be better in the final stages of growing, i.e. budding, but thats because of the ole color spectrum preference of the plant during certain stages, BUT for the early stages, those softy's wont do what the daylights will.

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Some Very good advice!

those security lights are pretty cool but are expensive unless someone can give u one for free. im flowering a white widow under a security light and man is that thing looking nice! it's a 70w hps

they are cheap in the uk.... u can go and buy one from argos at about 20 pounds not to bad for a 70hps but you can get both mh and hps blubs for them... good security lights tailor made for growin herb lol!!