Hi All! I have a dilemma in my country as there are no high powered 2700k CFL bulbs sold here. The highest wattage you get in warm white is 20w which develops 1200 lumens.Below is a pic of my setup at the moment. I'm currently vegging four plants in my spare cupboard with 5 lights consisting of: 2 x 85w 6500k CFL generating a combined 9475 lumens 1 x 65w 6500k CFL generating 3600 lumens 1 x 45w 6500k CFL generating 2025 lumens 1 x 20w 2700k CFL generating 1200 lumens This develops a total of 16500 lumens and I do plan to add even more lights to this setup. There are definitely a lot of high powered 6500k CFL's around ranging up to 200W but no high powered 2700k CFL. Would I be better off Flowering with high powered 6500k's or should I get a whole bunch of 20W 2700k's? Wouldn't I be better off with the stronger penetration of the high powered CFL's during flowering even though the colour temperature isn't ideal? Your guys help would be much appreciated!!
What about just getting a better (real) light instead of all the tiny ones? Even a nice T5 setup works great. J
There are just better options than CFL's - that's all. Your grow. Your lights. Just making a suggestion is all. J
If you can only get the higher wattage CFL's in 6500K you might be able to just order some higher wattage 2700k CFL's online but I have no clue how much it costs to get things shipped were you live. Either way if you can't get them just use what you have for now, but you will get a lot more out of those CFL's if you put them into some sort of cheap DIY reflector. Check out this DIY tutorial from another site http://www.420magazine.com/forums/do-yourself/115884-diy-cfl-reflector-how-simple-cheap-effective.html
1000bulbs.com They have all the way up to 300 actual watt cfls Sent from my N9100 using Grasscity Forum mobile app