Hey guys, just a quick question. I want to start my own grow, but i think i already fucked up. I bought the only 23w cfl's they had at walmart, but could not find the kelvin rating on it. its a 3 pack of GE 23w cfl's with 1600 lumen. all it says is 23w 100w equiv.

If anyone knows let me know. THanks

Sorry i dont have a pic.

AFAIK GE only makes 2700 K bulbs maybe 6500 K too still (I haven't seen any) If you have an ordinary light bulb it would be 2700 K so if they look the same color to you side by side that's your answer.

damn im a retard. they didnt have 6500k i looked at every other one so i thought these must have been them.

youll be ok...light k isnt as important in veg as it is flowering

so should i return these and go to a diff store immediately tomorrow or will it not effect the seedling too much. it was germinated but hasn't sprouted yet.

they'll work OK, hang on to them for flowering unless your hard up for money. Philips makes a 6500 K bulb (in the blue package) pretty sure Home Depot has them.

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I know how you feel man, I did the same thing. Was in too much of a hurry one time, and didn't take the time to MAKE SURE of the color temp. Of course, I ended up getting the wrong ones, lol.

Yes, if you have the 2700 k (soft white) which has a red glow, you can use them for veg. Personally, I wouldn't use them for long; for BEST RESULTS you should use 6500k bulbs.

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2700k works fine for veg also. I just recently started using 6500k for veg, having always used the 2700k up till then. Personally, I can't tell the difference in growth so far.

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thanks for the relief

No problem. When I first bought cfl's about 6 years ago 2700k is all you could get. I bought some at Sam's to replace my basement lights and was using 4' tubes in the growroom. When one of my ballasts went bad I used some old floodlight fixtures and the cfl's to get by. I only use the tubes for sidelighting now and cfl mainly. I may have been one of the first to use them for growin herb.

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