Using Seperate lights to simulate season

I see that a lot of people generally think it is best to have a seperate room with seperate lights for flowering than vegging, because blue light is better for the veg stage and red light is better for flowering. Well, I have an idea that might assist new growers with limited space or those who dont want to have to get new big lights or swap giant lights. why not just get a few blue CFL bulbs and have them around during veg, and unscrew em for red CFLs when you decide to start flowering?

kippiogrowin said:

I see that a lot of people generally think it is best to have a seperate room with seperate lights for flowering than vegging, because blue light is better for the veg stage and red light is better for flowering. Well, I have an idea that might assist new growers with limited space or those who dont want to have to get new big lights or swap giant lights. why not just get a few blue CFL bulbs and have them around during veg, and unscrew em for red CFLs when you decide to start flowering?

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Your suggestion only works for small time growers in limited space, and thats exactly what they do. When you keep vegging and flowering monthly, you find its wayyyyy wasier to run/manage two seperate rooms. Instead of swapping bulbs, programming timers,fans,temperature,humidity and all that shit, instead you just simply carry the plants to the next room after inspecting for bugs/mold.

kippiogrowin said:

I see that a lot of people generally think it is best to have a seperate room with seperate lights for flowering than vegging, because blue light is better for the veg stage and red light is better for flowering. Well, I have an idea that might assist new growers with limited space or those who dont want to have to get new big lights or swap giant lights. why not just get a few blue CFL bulbs and have them around during veg, and unscrew em for red CFLs when you decide to start flowering?

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Just that only very low wattage red and blue CFLs are available, 13w being all you can find in stores. I use the red ones, but it's a very small grow. I supplement 4000k 70 CRI LEDs with them to make it a better shade of white. For a larger grow space you would need too many light sockets, unless you rigged up something that connects them all somehow without sockets.

I just added a 100 watt hps light to my led veg room because it was $2 at a yard sale. My plants love it and have responded well plus I'm swapping some to a hps flower room so my thought was ease of transition to flower.

Gator44 said:

I just added a 100 watt hps light to my led veg room because it was $2 at a yard sale. My plants love it and have responded well plus I'm swapping some to a hps flower room so my thought was ease of transition to flower.

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Good work. You just can't beat a $2 HPS. BTW, not really related to season but I recommend a sunrise and sunset period of 15 minutes of pure red light. I use red CFLs, as I mentioned earlier. In nature, sunrise and sunset look reddish, right? And the light is also dimmer. So what I do is to have about 25% of the wattage of the white light (COBs in this case) in red CFLs going for a full 12 hours but the white light is only on for 11.5 hours, sandwiched in the middle of the 12 hour red cycle. So the red is always on but it's on by itself for sunrise and sunset. This keeps the plants shorter than the pure white light. You might think it would make them stretchier but it's actually far red that does that. Red actually neutralizes the far red stretching effect. You'll find that your plants are incredibly short and dense compared to normal.

Gator44 said:

I just added a 100 watt hps light to my led veg room because it was $2 at a yard sale. My plants love it and have responded well plus I'm swapping some to a hps flower room so my thought was ease of transition to flower.

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mogul socket HPS are pretty much junk, no offense. I used them for many years.

look at genesis bulbs, they will save you some money. eye hortilux not worth it, for this old tech.