Color Gels and CFL's

Airwreck

Member
Has anybody ever used color gels to shift a 6400K to a lower spectrum during flowering???

I have a bunch of theatrical gels that are yellow and red and was wondering if using them on a few of the CFL's and creating a mixed lighting would assist in giving the "warmer light" needed for flowering??

Thanks for the feedback
 
Any benefit you would gain from the altered spectrum, would be negated by the energy loss associated with light traveling through the theatrical gel. I like your thinking, but it just isn't practical.
 

SativaMe@420

Well-Known Member
spacemanhux is correct, depending on the viscosity of the gel it would most likely shade a good amount of light thus wasting energy, you would be much better off just using some 2700K bulbs.
 

Airwreck

Member
Thanks for the input folks.. If I did the gel idea I would replace a bulb for each one filtered cuz I understand the light loss.

Yeah Sativa has it right ..I guess it would be a waste of energy
 
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