theollister
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I'm curious to know if I were to walk into wallyworld, go to the bulb section, which CFL am I to buy? Should I look for anything specific on the package? What have you guys/gals bought in terms of brand/model in CFL's?
CFL Bulb Question
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jonnyblaze24
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get the daylight cfl's for vegging your plants.......
krillianred
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you can use cfl for vegging and growing right? just get different spectrums?
propcannibis
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yeeee wut the said, get as many as u can if u plan usin them for flowering tho
livinlegend
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You want 6500K
theollister
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so 6500k for veg. and 3000k for flower?
these seem to be two easy to get colors from phillips.
these seem to be two easy to get colors from phillips.
livinlegend
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dont use CFLs to flower, waste of your time and energy. get a small HPS if you have to. and even if you got that your CFLs would now be useless for vegging except for a little added light. honestly i dont know why anyone uses the damn things they suck
krillianred
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then how are people vegging and flowering with cfls?
theollister
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well, the only way i'd use CFL's to flower is using 2 3500kcfls and 2 3000k or possibly lower which would equate to at least 10000 lumens. I'd add more too, so, how does that sound now?
jonnyblaze24
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Yea if you are looking to do this for awhile, might as well make it worth your while and get a HPS. You can get something from e-Bay for a decent price.
krillianred
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so hps puts out more lumens right? but if you do this at your house, your electricity bill spikes, and your house heats up no? or does it take an obscene amount of hps lights to do so?