lighting LED lighting questions

I have a total of 16 Cree CXA1304 COB LED's. Half are 6500k the other 2700k. I planed on using the 6500k for some hydro lettuce, the 2700k was for experimenting. I've never grown peppers before, but was planning on growing Jalapeno. The 8 6500k in total put out around 5700 lumens and the 8 2700k should put out about 4400 lumens. 
 
I've done some research and I've heard people saying it's better to flower the peppers with 2700k lighting, some say you can use 6500k the whole time. If I combined both sets and get a total of about 10,000 lumens do you think I could have enough light to cover one Jalapeno plant from seed to harvest? Or is buying more of either 2700k/6500k a better option?, depending on which is better for peppers 2700k or 6500k? 
 
Even if no one has experience with these lights maybe some one could clear up my question about 2700k or 6500k for seed to harvest growth. How many lumens/lux/foot candles are needing for peppers?
 
Any help is appreciated.

pepper plants don't have a light cycle like cannabis, They are always growing and flowering simultaneously. So there really isn't need to switch the lights out or anything. About which is better, i think most would say cool white 6500k or daylight 5000k.
 
From FAQ topic:
 
Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)
As stated in the article plants don't use much of the yellow light spectrum. Which is the majority of visible light. In LEDs since we can provide specific wavelengths we can cut out all the yellow light and run more efficiently even though we are at less lumens.

LEDS aren't as Nanometer/wavelength,light specific as they say.
 
Yes they do put out 50% + of the wavelengths they are rated at(which makes a lot of difference compaired to some other light sources).
A way to see what wavelengths your specific LED puts out is to use a CD to reflect the LED light off of to see the rainbow of color.
In general a Red rated LED will have a thicker band of red and dark orange.
Blue has thicker blue bands.
 
All put out smaller bands of other wavelengths in general.

OKGrowin said:

pepper plants don't have a light cycle like cannabis, They are always growing and flowering simultaneously. So there really isn't need to switch the lights out or anything. About which is better, i think most would say cool white 6500k or daylight 5000k.
 
From FAQ topic:
 
Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR)
As stated in the article plants don't use much of the yellow light spectrum. Which is the majority of visible light. In LEDs since we can provide specific wavelengths we can cut out all the yellow light and run more efficiently even though we are at less lumens.

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Well actually the opinions on light changing came from other peoples posts about pepper/tomato lighting, not cannabis. I've never grown peppers so I just assumed they have different stages of growth, more research to do I guess.
 
Good to hear 6500k can be used for full spectrum growth, they're more efficient. Any idea on what a good lumen range for pepper plants all the way to fruiting? 
 
Thanks for the help.

for 4x2x2 area, people have much success using 4 t8 bulbs (11k lumens) up to but not including producing peppers(that i have seen, everyone usually sticks them outside). So that's ~ 1400 lumen / sqft
 
i have seen 250w hid light(33k lumens) in the same area took them all life. So thats 4150 / sqft.
 
In general i've read 10,000 to 5,000 per sqft is good for maturity. 
 
 

McCulloch93 said:

 
Well.

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OKGrowin said:

for 4x2x2 area, people have much success using 4 t8 bulbs (11k lumens) up to but not including producing peppers(that i have seen, everyone usually sticks them outside). So that's ~ 1400 lumen / sqft
 
i have seen 250w hid light(33k lumens) in the same area took them all life. So thats 4150 / sqft.
 
In general i've read 10,000 to 5,000 per sqft is good for maturity. 
 
 

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Thanks a lot for all the help. Got some ideas now for my LED light.