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Off the shelf retail store screw-in LED and CFL bulb comparisons
- Thread starter blynx
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Your link is to a different lamp.
PCBuds - ha ha ha very funny. Not that any one doesn’t know but just in case... pics just got Turnt by uploading them haha.
Jellyfish - Thank you very much for the kind words my friend. If you check out my journal in my signature, some where in there you’ll find an explanation of my training style.... but basically I kept topping and lollipoping and topping more and tying everything down to be even during veg then when each plant had 24 tops I lollipopped those till I was ready to flip them maybe just a week.. week n a half.
I’mone Thanks! I try my best to keep things neat but I’m never satisfied lol.
Jellyfish - Thank you very much for the kind words my friend. If you check out my journal in my signature, some where in there you’ll find an explanation of my training style.... but basically I kept topping and lollipoping and topping more and tying everything down to be even during veg then when each plant had 24 tops I lollipopped those till I was ready to flip them maybe just a week.. week n a half.
I’mone Thanks! I try my best to keep things neat but I’m never satisfied lol.
PCBuds
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Yeah, I was just being a smart ass...
Apparently, you have to crop your photos so they don't get flipped.
ScrogMonster you are doing an amazing job with those plants! Resin production and overall flower photo quality looks on par with the best of the best 
overall setup winning 
overall setup winning
Art.spliff Thanks!! That means a lot! 
Jellyfish cool, I hope you enjoy it and find something useful.
Jellyfish cool, I hope you enjoy it and find something useful.
Oh dude... you know I hadn’t thought of that but I won’t forget. I better roll me joint in the next two weeks and I’m gonna coat the outside in as much live resin off those close frosty trim leaves as possible!
The night before harvest soon after Christmas the stoner rubbed live resin all over his spliff. He inhaled and exhaled and savored the flavor. With his next drag he smiled and sagged and silently gave thanks to his friends from ICMag.
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Im'One
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Wow, i have 2/3rds of 2700 k bulbs I will switch to 5000s. Do you use the great value bulbs with the plastic globes? I notice some of my cfls are 6000k do I need to use those to supplement?
These are what I use. I been getting from costco at only 3.99 per 4pack. There is an electric company instant rebate that saves at $10 per pack. I really need to go get more and stock these up while this rebate is still good. Limit 3 boxes per customer per day.
They’re not as efficient as some newer ones but they’re 90 CRI and I really like them.
I got some great value 14 or 15w and.... I’m not sure what it is about them other then it’s a tighter smaller cluster of chips but I just don’t like them as much.
PCBuds
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Ahh, Crap...
I've got 26 LED strips rated 3,500K.
I'm more than willing to rely on your observations as far as what works best.
Im'One
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I have some great value bulbs that I took th cover off. They are now making purple light? My latest bulb purchase was Phillips 100 watt dimable. They have glass globes. Some are 5000 k most are not.
My poor tablet won't let me load any more apps. Adding the light meter will have to wait a minute.
My poor tablet won't let me load any more apps. Adding the light meter will have to wait a minute.
Does anybody here still use the big curly bulbs that were rated 43-45 watts? I grew some big buds with those bulbs, then I switched to LED's. But now I'm starting to realize the CFL's were giving me greater yields!
I had a flower room that was rocking 8 of those curly monsters, giving off negligible heat and growing some big ass buds. I think I might go back to those days. What do y'all think?
I had a flower room that was rocking 8 of those curly monsters, giving off negligible heat and growing some big ass buds. I think I might go back to those days. What do y'all think?
PCBuds
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That's weird. Maybe they're burning out in some strange way?
I say smash one to find out what kind of guts are inside.
They may not have LEDs that protrude into the globe area.
Then you would have directional SILs.
Im'One
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I have been using them and switched to LEDs after reading this thread. A couple of plants are still under cfls. It seems they get a weird reverse taco thing, I'm trying to figure out why.
PCBuds
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I've got two boxes of 23 Watters.
I couldn't bear to throw them out.
I don't know if I'm going back but I get it.
It's a bit like how I want to resurrect my cassette deck.
It was the Cats Ass back in the mid 80's
Im'One
Active member
Ok you are not a good role model. I smashed a light bulb and the LEDs stick I into the bulb area. So what does that mean? Do I have to replace them all?
PCBuds
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Sorry, I like to break stuff.
I think you've just got multi-directional bulbs so not much point in breaking them all.
I'm speculating that being as the LEDs are in the globe, that the glass globe can be more transparent and still diffuse the light enough.
Perhaps that's why they have more lumens/Watt?
Removing the glass may not let too much more light through and it's beaming all over anyway.
I don't know how many bulbs you need but they're only a buck apiece.
I still think you should use the glass ones as side lighting and get more plastic bulbs.
It looks like we both bought the wrong color anyway. Lol
i'll vet this to some extent
bud density with cfls can be killer dense
trade is more distance adjustments, but get 'em close and buds respond
still, for wattage leds give better yields
