Recent content by Steve66oh

Here's another trick worth trying... Find the fixture online at Lowe's, keep switching stores until you find the price you like, then print out that page and carry it into a Home Depot. Try to select an equivalent fixture at HD, take it with your printout to the customer service desk, and ask...

  I did! Thanks!

OK... I got bored watching my plants grow... gardening and ADHD don't mix... so I got to thinking how cool it would be if we had a :chilihead: smiley on here. It looks like the admins have played around with the existing smileys - there's one called "hotsauce" ( :hotsauce: ) which I've never...

  So YOU"RE the guy!!!... I've been to Geneva, everybody there talks about how things started going to hell when Bob left... ;)

I can't speak for or against the quality of the VitaLUME tubes, because I don't have them myself, and I can't find a spectrum graph for them. I would be confident buying them though - they're made & sold as grow lights, and their color temperatures are right where they should be. Plus, other...

Thanks, Bob.. for flowering, I'm going to try 4 of the 3500K T5-SO's, and two 5000K T8's. (It's still about "what I have on hand", saving the budget for seeds, flats, soil and drip irrigation..)   Since you're looking at a T5-HO fixture - http://www.sunleaves.com/detail.asp?sku=SPG108 - I see...

The blacklights supplement the blue end of the spectrum, which is weak in the 5000K's, and almost non-existent in the 3500K tube. I found several charts of the spectral sensitivity of chlorophyll, which suggested that the plants might like some UV. I paid $20 for the one 6700K tube, an Aqueon...

Yeah... you could wile away the hours, conversing with the flowers, and consulting with the rain... :whistle:

Based on what I've read here, with a good, reflective grow tent setup, this fixture should produce daylight intensity light levels over about 16 square feet of plant area. As for growing and flowering, that's more a function of light color than brightness - for vegetative growth, people use...

Whaddaya want for $7.00?... Yes.. these are industrial striplight fixtures, none of the amenities of a consumer product. I bought the lamp extension cords in order to cut off the receptacle end to wire in as power cords, secured with the knockout grommets I bought, and the timer is the only...

This is a link to a comparison between four different fluorescent grow lights and a standard GE "Kitchen and Bath" tube. Based on his reported 3400 lumens for the GE K&B, it looks like he used standard 40 watt T12 tubes. He reports the light output of the grow light tubes as 1600 to 1800 lumens...

I found it! It wasn't a thread here, just a link within a comment on a thread - and the hyperlink is spelled "flourescent" (Baker lights?), so it didn't turn up in searches. I'm also going to post this link in the "Light 101" thread: fluorescent comparison

Last week, I saw a thread here from someone who compared 4 different grow light tubes (against each other and sunlight) by growing 5 sets of seedlings under controlled conditions. Now, I can't find that thread. Can anyone provide a link to it? Thanks!

I found a sweet deal at Lowes today - a 4' strip light, takes 2 F28T5 tubes, on the shelf for $7.24 each. They sell individual 4' F28T5, 3500K, 2800 lumen tubes for $7.18 each. I also had to buy a 6' utility lamp cord ($2.00), and a wireholder grommet for the light's conduit knockout (5 for $2)...

Hello. I'm new here, just caught the hot pepper bug. The deal is, I bought an old house for cheap, been fixing it up, and I'm about to leave my condo and move in. So, to celebrate my new garage and yard, I'm growing some edible fireworks! I already have at least 200 seeds started, and I'd guess...