will these lights work?

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:17 am

I found some sylvania "spot-gro"lights at lowes (2-125w,3-65w & 2-60w)the 125w & the 65w's are like spot lights & the 60w's are like regular bulb style they all have a blue hue to them.Will these work or did I just waste my $

Psyclone · Post by **Psyclone** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:13 pm

Any light source will work really. It's just how much lumens it produces. The blue tinting to it really helps for vegging. When you want to flower, you need a red/orange spectrum.

$Bong$ · Post by **$Bong$** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:07 am

Psyclone wrote:Any light source will work really. It's just how much lumens it produces. The blue tinting to it really helps for vegging. When you want to flower, you need a red/orange spectrum.

That's not quite true.

Incandescent lights will not work.

Jimbo, are those CFL's, fluros, or incadescent?

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:38 am

these lights are some kind of grow lights & I think they are MH because of the blue/white hue of them but their not clear about that on the box.Maby somone could investigate them for me.They are sylvania spot-grow & I bought them from lowes.THX for the A's to the Q's

Psyclone · Post by **Psyclone** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:16 am

$Bong$ wrote:
Psyclone wrote:Any light source will work really. It's just how much lumens it produces. The blue tinting to it really helps for vegging. When you want to flower, you need a red/orange spectrum.
That's not quite true.

Incandescent lights will not work.

Jimbo, are those CFL's, fluros, or incadescent?

Incadesecnt will work. Just you'd get shitty ass weed and it'd probably die within' the 5th week. lol.

danthebadman · Post by **danthebadman** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:21 am

i tell you what you can use...i dunno if you have them over were you are....but many growers in the uk are using them energy saving bulbs...they burn at 18watts but kick out 100watts of light....they are mainly used for mothering a plant or vegging a plant and they are ideal for clones

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:40 pm

Will regular florecent tubes work.The reason I ask is I was looking around in my basment & found a 4' florecent light that will fit perfectly in my grow room/basment bathroom to go along with my 500w's of spot-grow lights which I think are MH lights that I got from lowes (blue/white hue)what I really need though is some lights to help with the flowering process but,thoes HPS lights are so expensive & I have a 2 year old son to think of so I'm trying to take a cheaper approach to this grow without braking the bank...any suggestions?

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:48 am

I got to looking around the house & found a bunch of those little cork screw floros & a 125w long tube screw in type floro in a clp-on reflection lamp,the cork screw types range from 3=23w & 1=20w. so heres my set up (no pics im sorry

)...I have 6 plants in that bathroom with a 4 socket track lighting bar with a piece of thick aliminum trailer roofing over the top curled as to reflect light (appx 40"L x 24"W)I have 2=125w blue/white spot-grow MH spot lights & 2=23w cork screw floros in the track bar,I have a 4' regular ballest type lamp with 40w tubes (thinking about up-grading thoes to as many watts as I can find),I have 1=23w & 1=20w cork screw floros in the bathroom fixture with no shade on it for side light.however I will be getting more of thoes 125w long tube screw in type floros tomarrow for my track bar.I started thoes seeds tuesday in wet paper towels & 4 of them are already in the soil poping out of their shells on the surface.I have the bathrom vent running,2 osc.fans on low,a auto shut off space heater set on low @ 80f.I will probably need to remove that when summer times gets here in GA.the room temp is holding strong @ 78f.I put up foil (dull side out)on the walls also...ok thats my grow room,what do y'all think

SpRi7e · Post by **SpRi7e** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:03 am

That paragraph just made my head hurt. lol

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:12 am

how do you think I feel after writing it

lol.....what can I say I like to ramble when I'm stoned

lol

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:33 pm

ok,I started these in the paper towels on tue. & it's sat.today & I've already got 4 coming up & with baby leaves spreading wide open & 2 jagged leaves shooting out like they can't wait to see the world 1 of them has little leaves about 1/8"long,how cool is that

.I'm thinking about scrapping 2 of them though.Some of these seeds were old I think & 2 of them won't germ (too bad).but,thats ok too because I did'nt really want 6 anyway I just wanted a small personal grow.I kinda expected that anyway it's been my experiance in the past from growing outside that you should try to germ.more seeds than you really need anyway in case some die or just wo'nt sprout...at least it seems logical to me...wh.do.yal.thk

$Bong$ · Post by **$Bong$** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:41 pm

Jimbo E wrote:Will regular florecent tubes work.The reason I ask is I was looking around in my basment & found a 4' florecent light that will fit perfectly in my grow room/basment bathroom to go along with my 500w's of spot-grow lights which I think are MH lights that I got from lowes (blue/white hue)what I really need though is some lights to help with the flowering process but,thoes HPS lights are so expensive & I have a 2 year old son to think of so I'm trying to take a cheaper approach to this grow without braking the bank...any suggestions?

http://www.weedguru.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15186

Jimbo E · Post by **Jimbo E** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:45 pm

I had already read that one & sence I wrote that last post I went out & bought more 42w CFL's I now have 25,500 lumens on 4 plants. I'm hoping that's enough. I know the CFL's are good for vegging & not flowering but, this is all I have to wrk.with...maby I'll get some more CFL's later as needed but,I think I'm good for now......WDYT

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will these lights work?

will these lights work?

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