A thought occured to me.

Would it be possible to flower under candle light. I believe it's rated 1800K on the kelvin rating. Wonder if anyone has ever tried this.

Hank.

damn your high as shit arent you. i must be toocuz now you got me wondering lol.

High. Shit im High on life brother

Hank.

Would be quite a fire hazard know?

If you plan on having over 3000 candles, sure. Each candle produces one lumen at one foot away. That is the definition of a lumen. Cannabis, along with a great majority of plants, require a lot of light. Specifically, 3000 lumens for Cannabis if I remember correctly.

You'll need major candles.....try it and let us know!!! Smile.

But im saying lower the kelving rating would you produce more denser buds? I know a HPS runs along 2200K. I might be wrong though. Why not paint our growing walls orange an red instead of white? This of course would be during flowering. Oh and the candle thing.................It would really take alot of your time.

Hank.

Yeah, the kelvin rating is in an optimal range. But the sheer quantity of candles needed makes it impossible. You couldn't keep 3000 candles lit long enough to flower one plant, even if you had 50 people and a candle factory across the street. The amount of Oxygen needed for the candles would be incredible. You might even suffocate yourself to death if you went into an unventilated candle-grow-room setup.

I was just reading that some candles (read: crappy and dangerous) give off carbon monoxide (CO) which can be deadly, and destroys life. Plants dislike CO also. However, most (all) candles should release carbon dioxide (CO2) which would of course be good =)

Wow, a lot of stuff to deal with, when you could just use an HPS to replace 10,000 candles and live with the 400K difference

Nice idea though haha.

In that case im going to sit in my box with a candle burning and talk to my girls to produce CO2 lol

I was searching google for confirmation that a lit candle in the same room is beneficial. I still haven't confirmed that it is. At least my room smells nice.

As a practical matter - totally impossible. With light intensity falling off by the square of the distance, by the time the light is far enough away not to burn the plant, the light has become ineffective.

If you got all gonzo and rigged up crazy stuff like seperate air systems, lenses to concentrate the light, etc... it probably could be done.

But absolutely not practical.

Seems like too much work anyway. And a fire hazard as well. What was i thinking?????

Hank.

dun burn your house down.

perhaps torches

Hank said:

Why not paint our growing walls orange an red instead of white? This of course would be during flowering.

Hank.

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he hank, im a noob so dont take my word on this. i do THINK that painting your walls red or orange wouldnt be practical for your plants because this is the only spectrum(s) of light that would reflect off your wall(?).... other spectrums would be absorbed by the red/orange wall that might be benificial to your plants(?) and white reflects up to 95% of ALL light, i think.... for example the reason why plants are green because they absorb other spectrums of light but reflect green(?). and green does nothing for a plant(?),....... ummm ya.....the reason for all the "(?)" is because im not doing any research right now but going off of my little knowledge that i think i know about light lol. just my humble opinion on your question. God bless everyone!

if the colour of the light matters, why not paint the bulb with glass paint?

stonegrove said:

if the colour of the light matters, why not paint the bulb with glass paint?

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That filters the light - reducing the light to emit only the spectrum you want. But that will cut the overall light by as much as 80% or more.

You want the light to PROduce the spectrum you want, not REduce to it.

Pullin' weeds said:

That filters the light - reducing the light to emit only the spectrum you want. But that will cut the overall light by as much as 80% or more.

You want the light to PROduce the spectrum you want, not REduce to it.

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guess it would decrease light a lil, but shouldnt b too much if u use thin paint...

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guess it would decrease light a lil, but shouldnt b too much if u use thin paint...

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hey stonegrove! i think that a key point he mentioned is "You want the light to PROduce the spectrum you want, not REduce to it." they sell special horticural lights that have alot better spectrums than your standard hps bulb. instead of buying a cheaper bulb, if you buy a more expensive one they usually have a graph of the light emitting spectums/PAR(?). and you can base your purchase on this if you want to get scientific. from what i've read, anything that gets in the way of your light and your light hungry plants doesnt seem to be good, even if its just crystal clear glass. well unless your using a "cool" tube then the small decline of light out weighs the benifits of efficently removing hot air. God bless everyone