whymedeisgns
Active Member
You obviously don't need any help doing your thing, but for communicating and helping other understand, "full spectrum" is a very misleading term.
What a company puts on it's box to describe their lightbulb is not subject to regulation,
Usually the words are the least accurate description,
The kelvin temperature is slightly more accurate, but in reality actually not accurate;
The only accurate description would be the peaks on a specrtagraph, showing which light waves are being produced the most, showing how much of the light being produced is usable by a plant.
You can have a 100 W green CFL and produce almost 0 usable lumens of light for a plant.
Really nice light bulbs for specialty purposes (growing, aquariums, terarriums) will often have a spectragraph break down of the light output from their bulbs. Slightly less nice bulbs will tell you the "color temperature" which is denoted by a number, usually in the thousands, with a K after it.
I by no means am attacking you, I am actually quite envious of how your widow is growing, but if anyone wanted to reproduce your results, and you wanted to help them, simply telling them to get "full spectrum" CFLs is not what they need to hear. There's -way- more to it than that.
Btw i'm super impressed at the sativa grown with CFL, as that's not easy to do. Indicas are easier, sativas take alot of care to grow with CFLS.
What a company puts on it's box to describe their lightbulb is not subject to regulation,
Usually the words are the least accurate description,
The kelvin temperature is slightly more accurate, but in reality actually not accurate;
The only accurate description would be the peaks on a specrtagraph, showing which light waves are being produced the most, showing how much of the light being produced is usable by a plant.
You can have a 100 W green CFL and produce almost 0 usable lumens of light for a plant.
Really nice light bulbs for specialty purposes (growing, aquariums, terarriums) will often have a spectragraph break down of the light output from their bulbs. Slightly less nice bulbs will tell you the "color temperature" which is denoted by a number, usually in the thousands, with a K after it.
I by no means am attacking you, I am actually quite envious of how your widow is growing, but if anyone wanted to reproduce your results, and you wanted to help them, simply telling them to get "full spectrum" CFLs is not what they need to hear. There's -way- more to it than that.
Btw i'm super impressed at the sativa grown with CFL, as that's not easy to do. Indicas are easier, sativas take alot of care to grow with CFLS.
