Blue aquarium lights?

New grower here, been smoking for a longggg time and my friend just recently stopped growing, so I kinda fell into some mighty good clones.
I tried to look around on RIU but failed to find anything on blue aquarium lights,

Any info y'all have would be great. Please and thank you.

I'll post some pics of my set up/ and the light I'm talking about here soon.

I grew with an aquarium light just because I had an extra. Logic would state that a light that is used to suppress algae would not grow anything well at all. I grew some on 24hour with the light 2-3 inches away from the tops and it did not do really good but it did not do bad. I would not flower with it and my guess is anything else is better.

I'm running on 24hr and I've also got 2 26w 1750lumen cfl's but I just thought, hell can't go wrong with more light, and maybe itll have more of the blue spectrum

I wouldnt try to use it as a primary source of light, not even for veg, and especially not for flowering. Look into quality LED lights if you are interested in a more contemporary grow than traditional hps or cfl lighting. Supplementing with it won't hurt during veg, but might not help during flower.

PotConnoisseur said:

New grower here, been smoking for a longggg time and my friend just recently stopped growing, so I kinda fell into some mighty good clones.
I tried to look around on RIU but failed to find anything on blue aquarium lights,

Any info y'all have would be great. Please and thank you.

I'll post some pics of my set up/ and the light I'm talking about here soon.

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If its the blue fluro light that I'm thinking of then it can work alright for seedlings and up until they're about 2 or 3in. Then throw em under a couple cfls that's genenrally what I do works pretty good

Set up as of right now, still haven't spent a penny.
Just the beginning I see this as an investment Fosho =]



My beaut yesterday.

Update: just added anothe 26w cfl to make 3 cfl's total.

If your going to use the blue light move it down. It's doing nothing up there. That potter is huge. That is going to be a tree. I doubt you need the blue light right now save it for starting clones.

I like trees,  lol

Since I added the 3rd cfl I took down the blue fluro, it was way too damn big for my space, plus it fell down and chopped off a leaf, also bent the stem, since then I stabilized it but it's back to standing on it's on now.

Yesterday I also noticed alot of little white bugs in the soil, researched around still couldn't find out what they were, but me being paranoid about my first grow I did a flush and transplant, pretty sure my baby is in shock now, fan leaves are reallly droopy.
Anyone know how long they stay in shock?

I forgot what the white bugs are called but they eat roots. Did you get your soil from outside? Do they run around the surface when you water? I doubt you got them all because they live on the roots. Because your plant is in shock wait a while but if you see them again just don't water as much and they die off. I don't know how big your root system is but it could be 2 days to a week before the plant perks up again. Use a mister and spray the leaves lightly once a day or less so they don't dry out while the roots try to establish. The number 1 killer of plants is humans. If in doubt let it grow. Start messing around with the plant after you get some clones.

No, I bought some organic potting soil, but it was left outside for a day before I could actually get everything set up.
I hope I got them all, and my root system wasn't big at all, I washed the roots and got all if the infected soil off when I transplanted. But yea a few would come out and run around everytime I watered.

I just checked on it, the two biggest fan leaves are still droopy as hell, but it looks like new growth right above them. The two 3 sets I have perked up a little bit, but I think that's because I took out the blue fluro and added the 3rd cfl.