Plant & Aquarium Tube Light

[OrganicTrance]

I bought two 40 watt, 48" tube lights (fluorescent?). It says it is made for indoor plant growth and aquarium plant growth. The light gives off sort of a pink/red/organge color. I can't afford an HPS right now - will this work? Anyone else ever tried these? Any information is much appreciated. Thanks!

-OT

 

[BudGood2006]

They will work for seedlings and clones. Once your plants get bigger you will need to provide more light, at the very least a few more flourescents. You could just mix warm (reddish) and cool (bluish) tubes instead of buying the more expensive plant bulbs. Hope that helps. Peace...

 

[jaykush]

they will grow a bit slow but they will grow. good luck

 

[Blackmelo]

hey organic, I use those kind of bulbs for keeping my plant in stasis.
It makes the plants grow really really slow.

 

[OrganicTrance]

Thanks for the info. I can't afford $250 for an HPS, any suggestions for something cheaper but still effective? Also, I'm using Fiji Water. Any thoughts on that?

 

[Guest]

well first all...stop spending so much money on that Fiji water... and use that money to get some CFLs if you cant afford a HPS. THough Ebay has 400W for 99$ i think.

 

[robobond]

If you're using only cfls then you should do LST. Should even out the light better on the plant maybe. And definatly more lights could never hurt.

 

[Blackmelo]

well in your situation i would go with 125 watt envirolights. They might seem a bit expensive but you don't need a ballast to run them so they are in fact much cheaper than fluoros. Just plug em into a lamp socket.

The blue ones are for vegitation and the red ones are for flowering:
http://www.growell.co.uk/p/1587/Envirolites__Compact_Fluorescent_Grow_Lamps.html

Also, thread on lst:

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=6090