FINALLY! got my purple PL-L 55watt tubes

OneCanSam

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Took me a bit to hunt down these purple plant grow tubes and mix spectrum grow tubes for my Biax PL-L 55w fixture

Now I just need to hunt down eight T5HO purple tubes for my T5HO fixture and my hunt for the perfect T5HO lighting will be over. Two foot purple T5HO tubes are easy to get overseas, but in the USA, finding 2' T5HO purple tubes is a headache. I'll find them though, if I have to, I'll order them overseas, but I'll order twice as many as I need, and if one or two get broken while they travel across the Atlantic, I'll still be good to go.

The PL-L 55 watt dual purple tube is exactly what I wanted, but I decided to try out the The PL-L 55w blue and purple as well, which combines blue and a purple plant grow tube that produce two different spectrum's of blue and red in one PL-L 55 watt bulb.

PS, I was so excited when these came, after I installed them I had an Ogre moment and even though I put the old 6500k PL-L 55w tubes in bubble wrap to safely store them, I accidentally tapped one of my older 6500k PL-L 55 watt tube's pins on my c02 tank while I was tucking the older tubes away, you guessed it, I broke one of the older tubes.
(it would have really sucked if I broke one of these new purple tubes, but it was still a bummer. These tubes are delicate, that's why I didn't order them overseas.

Funeral remembrance for the PL-L 6500k old tube that I broke will be held at 8PM PST, if you could smoke a bowl, vapor hit or bonghit at 8PM PST in remembrance of this tragic ogre moment accident, it would be appreciated.
 

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OneCanSam

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By the way, If any of you know where to get Purple T5HO 24" tubes like these in the USA, could you possibly post a link or shoot me a PM to help me locate them? It would be very much appreciated.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE 24" T5HO Purple tubes :mrgreen:




Somebodys got to know a vendor that sells them in the USA :confused:
 

rkm

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By the way, If any of you know where to get Purple T5HO 24" tubes like these in the USA, could you possibly post a link or shoot me a PM to help me locate them? It would be very much appreciated.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE 24" T5HO Purple tubes :mrgreen:




Somebodys got to know a vendor that sells them in the USA :confused:
Those look like Actinic bulbs. Check these out 24" AQUALIGHT T-5 Double Strip Fixture - AquaCave
If it is the same, aquarium suppliers will have them. I run two sets as supplement lights.
 

OneCanSam

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Rkm,

Appreciate the reply. Sadly my qwest is for purple T5's exactly like this one Nlite or this Nurturelite makes a purple 24" linear T5HO that I've been trying to track down ever since I bought my 1st T5 fixture. (they may be one and the same)

I could buy Actinic blue/white tubes at the local Petsmart, but they dont have the purple plant grow spectrum. Both tubes I bought have Purple tubes(two tubed , consisting of, purple/purple in one flouro, and the other has purple and blue, the blue I bought peaks at 450nm blue(other portion that has the 450nm blue tube is purple. I believe Actinic blue peaks at 420nm

....my search for eight nurturelite or nLite 24" T5H0 purple tubes in America continues .....I think I'll just order them from Europe and hope they survive the journey. :mrgreen:
 

OneCanSam

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i. can't. find. nurturelites. bongsmilie
It's bizarre that we can't find them for sale in the USA. Now I know how people outside the USA feel when they are trying to get an item only sold in the USA.....
Tried contacting the manufacturer, but they have some sort of e-mail hiccups trying to return the information to my email address.


... The hunt continues for purple T5HO tubes ...
 

tom__420

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What makes you want the purple lights so badly? I have seen a grow done with a couple big purple nlites and it wasn't that great. They ended up switching over to HPS. Why are you so set on the purple bulbs?
 

leflll

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where can I get 55watt pll lighting system. I wanted to use 3 55watt dual tubes but cant find the ballast or fixture to hang lights. Please help
 

leflll

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Tom420 thanks for the link tons of info. I'm sold on PLL 55 watt look for my grow log coming soon. Thanks again
 

toostonedto

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Has anyone found PLL-55 bulbs in 2700k?

Seems you can't get 2700k bulbs for these PLL-55's. If you look at the included graph, you'll see there is quite a difference in chlorophyll activity between 2700l and 3000k. I wonder if the extra 3200 lumens I'd get from the 4 bulb(19,200 total lumen) PLL-55 is offset by the lower chlorophyll activity, vs. the 8 bulb 24w(16,000 total lumen) fixture that can use 2700k bulbs?
 

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