Flowering with 6500K daylights?

Has anyone ever tried this?

I have like 10 26W 6500k 1700lumen cfls , what would the buds be like?
Would they be extremely horrible if flowered under these?

no ones ever done this before? or atleast know what would happen?

your plant will grow but it will be slow

this guy is using daylight & about 2 soft/warm white bulbs for flowering..

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i havent flowered with 6500k and when i asked i got chewed up and spit out learning only that i need some flouro's and 2300k or some shit... im wondering if 4100 k fullspectrum would produce any nice buds with some cfl added? sorry to ask a question on your thread but maybe we can both get an answer..

also check my thread as mine didnt grow that slow and got bushy as hell only using 3 27 watt daylight and 2 30 watt 5k... I added some shop lights and a few 2300k for flowering which will be going 12-12 on monday

Plants have no problems receiving and processing blue spectra light however the red part of the spectrum is quite weak. So when you switch to flowering you are telling the plants by the 12/12 light cycle that its coming to the last phase of its life and that is to flower in readiness for pollenation. Nature triggers this by the change in hours of sunlight per day being shorter, and less blue light and more red light in sunlight over the late summer early autumn.

Plants have adapted to this by using the ample amount of blue spectra and the lesser available red to grow lots of leaves, and when the photo period hits as low as 12/12 of light and darkeness they have chemically become adapted to expecting more red spectra light for food proteins and energy to grow their buds.

6500k CFL bulbs have a little red in them but not enough in the balance of things to match what your plants would expect during the flowering phase.

i know, two years old, but i don't think anyone has actually looked at data before. That said, and i understand GE is not standard for what everyone else does, but i'm sure its close. http://www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/education_resources/learn_about_light/distribution_curves.htm look over the spectral output of the various colors, in fact the difference between 2700k and 6500k is that the 2700k(warm white) just doesn't put out light in the blue end like the 6500K(cool white) does. That is the only difference, the cool white bulbs output the same spectrum into the red as warm whites do. I just wanted to pass that along.

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oh yeah, forgot to mention, whats more interesting is the output of the "deluxe" versions of the cool white and warm white, MUCH wider spectral output, to bad they aren't available in all sizes, just seem to be found in various t12 bulbs.

your plant will probably be really leafy, so it'll be putting more energy into that instead of the buds.
also its gonna take awhile since it will think it still needs to be in the veg state

but thats just my input it could work out for you

Jacob Phoenix said:

your plant will probably be really leafy, so it'll be putting more energy into that instead of the buds.
also its gonna take awhile since it will think it still needs to be in the veg state

but thats just my input it could work out for you

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Anything else aside, the original post date : November 22, 2008.

wouldn't waste my cuttings, seeds, time even experimenting with this one myself

plants dead now

jacob..............................doh!

Use 10 26w 2700k cfl lights and that will work well . I had a buddy use 2 of the 26w 2700k and 1 26w 6500k daylight per plant did 3 plants and had above average results. U can give them some blue spec. In the flowering stage but you really want something high in the red spec. In the flowering stage.that's. What I have read and what I have always done. Looks like everyone is on the same page with this one so if I where you I would use acouple of those daylights you have and double up on the 2700k cfls or in that range. There is a great post that someone has going all about cfl lights and can answer all your questions in great detail if you want more info. I hope all works out for you would keep reading r.I.u has helped me in a hudge way. Goodluck

You want to mix it up.. if using cfl, ya wanna do like, for every 6500k bulb u use, I'd use double 2700k bulbs..
So 1-6500k bulb - 2-2700k bulbs, and so on.. I'm sure you get the point.. I put pics to show you my mix spectrum setup, for example..

RussellRuss23 said:

You want to mix it up.. if using cfl, ya wanna do like, for every 6500k bulb u use, I'd use double 2700k bulbs..
So 1-6500k bulb - 2-2700k bulbs, and so on.. I'm sure you get the point.. I put pics to show you my mix spectrum setup, for example..View attachment 3988437 View attachment 3988439

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You tell em Russ! Even though it's 7 years too late!

HazednConfused said:

You tell em Russ! Even though it's 7 years too late!

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LMAO right... better LATE THAN NEVER...

6500K lights produce more trichomes than lower temperatures.

Psyphish said:

6500K lights produce more trichomes than lower temperatures.

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Really meow?
Personal experiences?

thccbdhealth said:

Really meow?
Personal experiences?

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Yeah, but it could just appear that way, maybe the trichome stems were longer.