Red light in a dark grow room?

So what about it? Becuase of the way my house is built I will have to occasionaly walk through my flowering room to have access to the rest of my place and that means while its dark and im not suposed to expose the plants to light. But! I need to be able to navigate my way through. I remember my Dad used to use a light with a red lense on it in the jungles of vietnam and that got me to thinking if theres any kind of light that you can use while your flowering plants are on there dark cycle that wont fuck with them? But will help you see......

The red lights that people use when its dark is so it doesnt affect their vision. I hear that green is good as to not affect the plants. Wait for confirmation though as im no expert.

Thats interesting that would be ironic somhow if it was green. I think its a good question though I hope I can get an answer on this. Thanks

x2 on the green light. Just saw someones post today where they had a green light setup for just this

Feenius said:

Thats interesting that would be ironic somhow if it was green. I think its a good question though I hope I can get an answer on this. Thanks

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It's not ironic... it's SCIENCE.

Plants look green because they reflect green lightwaves. They do not absorb it. So a green light will only throw lightwaves that it reflects back. The internal workings of the plant never even know the light was there.

They sell green led flash lights at the hydro store and online. I love mine.....

Wow, a green light in the flowering room is going to add alot of ambience to my living environment.
The cool factor just went up on sharing my living space with a buch of plants that are badd ass anyway.
Thanks for the input, if plants are green to relfect green light I supose that helps make the case for
taking off any leaves that are turning yellow...

I've also read that it's a Green light on RIU.

just get the green party light ( CFL ) from Walmart . It cost about $5 . it's the same green that is sold at my local hydro shop.

I can do Wallmart, as long as I go during daytime hours. seems like late at night theres people shopping for curtains for the math lab or somthing.

ULMResearch said:

It's not ironic... it's SCIENCE.

Plants look green because they reflect green lightwaves. They do not absorb it. So a green light will only throw lightwaves that it reflects back. The internal workings of the plant never even know the light was there.

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i just read an interesting article i think it was or a post where the person was talking about the color wheel and how it works in regards to growing plants.. if you take the color of the plants themselves, and look that color up on a color wheel, you'll want to take the exact opposite color of it on the wheel and that is the exact color of light that the plant is going to be able to absorb the best in whatever phase of growing you're in.. you notice how when plants are very young, they have that light green color to them, and especially new growth? well, if you look at that color on the color wheel, you just take whatever color is on the opposite side of it, and that's the best color for that growing phase..
and when plants get older and they turn that darker green color, you take the opposite of that for flowering.. hence why you use 6500k's for veg and 2700k for flowering... i thought it was pretty interesting to see it broken down that way as i've never seen or heard it explained that way before.. made perfect sense to me once i had it broken down like that..

Despite this being common practice to use green light and there being manufactured green lights designed for dark cycle lighting, I think the idea of 630-730nm red lights to view during dark cycle should be much further investigated since it's been disputed by very few individual growers and also has been said to have beneficial effects on flowering if used early during a dark cycle. There has also been more recent proof that green light during the dark cycle isn't as safe as once though, especially if the plants are exposed for a long period of time. I realize people will insist that green light is safe for dark cycle viewing, and the idea of red light during dark cycle is ridiculous, but generally people are just repeating what they heard and will never do any experimenting or scientific research to prove otherwise. I sure as hell am not going to do the research myself, but I've heard a few times that red light should be used instead of green, and I know that 730nm(UV light) improves flowering if briefly introduced during the dark cycle of flowering. I'm sure it's unlikely that an advocate of red light over green during night dark cycle will ever read this and I understand it being so quickly dismissed as a ridiculous notion.