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overwintering Single bedroom apartment winter pepper growing
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nice project well done smart way to show your love to pepper
Hey, the lights are GE Reveal 75watt these are the purest looking incondecent bulbs I know... I don't have the space or money to get the good stuff... Would it be smart to get higher lumen CFL's for better energy savings and just put the lights lower since CFL's give off less heat then regular bulbs....?? When they get bigger I'll rig up something else, I'm pretty imaginative.. Lol let me know what you guys thing..
Hi Brian2112,
I'm not sold on incandescent lighting.
And you can't really take wattage into consideration for light efficiency, especially with incandescent lighting, because a significant portion of those said watts are lost as heat.
If you can afford to get some 40 watt CFL bulbs, they will give you a lot more usable light for your plants.
Maybe try a 6500k daylight and a 4100k cool white bulb above your plants.
And if you can swing it, 4 foot t5 fluorescent bulbs will really get your indoor peppers off to a good start.
dvg
I'm not sold on incandescent lighting.
And you can't really take wattage into consideration for light efficiency, especially with incandescent lighting, because a significant portion of those said watts are lost as heat.
If you can afford to get some 40 watt CFL bulbs, they will give you a lot more usable light for your plants.
Maybe try a 6500k daylight and a 4100k cool white bulb above your plants.
And if you can swing it, 4 foot t5 fluorescent bulbs will really get your indoor peppers off to a good start.
dvg
Thanks Dvg, yeah I understand all about light bulbs, I was planning on getting CFLs, I just had these and I wanted to use the heat of the incondecent bulbs because I have no other heat source and I'm deff. not raising the heater for the plants... Lol. I just hope when I get the CFL's and lower them I'll still get enough heat, it should be alright I think...
If your temp in ur room is over like 70 u don't need lighting right away.
if you are handy you could build a floro lamp, 1000bulbs.com has 55watt 4300k PLL bulbs like 3 bucks each, pair 4 of those that with a workhorse 8 ballast and you have a real nice horti lamp.
i made myself one a while back.
you can also build an HID lamp from components, but i dont think the savings are significant.
edit:
heres what im talking about
http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/2176/BF-WH8120LC.html
http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/4930/FC55-2G1141F.html
i lied, there almost 5 bucks each. that or they changed the price.
i made myself one a while back.
you can also build an HID lamp from components, but i dont think the savings are significant.
edit:
heres what im talking about
http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/2176/BF-WH8120LC.html
http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/4930/FC55-2G1141F.html
i lied, there almost 5 bucks each. that or they changed the price.
Heck, i like the setup u got. I only got a 1 bedroom apt. too. Hopefully u got outdoor space u can grow come growing season there. I live in NY and only have just two plants on a windowsill so far. Gonna plant hardcore in late Feb. or early March.
Im not an indoor grow specialist but if ya can give em enuff space and light you should be ok. Like the other guys said maybe you might need a bit more light once those 8 pots with multiple seedlings have big pepper plants in em.
And i like that indoor Hab plant! Doin well!
Good luck man
Jimmy
Im not an indoor grow specialist but if ya can give em enuff space and light you should be ok. Like the other guys said maybe you might need a bit more light once those 8 pots with multiple seedlings have big pepper plants in em.
And i like that indoor Hab plant! Doin well!
Good luck man
Jimmy
Thanks queequeg152!
I will think of something to make so that i can use what you have posted, looks like that will work awesome..
In the meantime, i went get some 30watt(=to 100w)5000k CFL's.
They deff. make more light and its a better looking light, so i lowered the lamps closer to the seedlings to make up for the lost heat...
What do you all think about the distance from the plants? To low, to high, or just right???
I will think of something to make so that i can use what you have posted, looks like that will work awesome..
In the meantime, i went get some 30watt(=to 100w)5000k CFL's.
They deff. make more light and its a better looking light, so i lowered the lamps closer to the seedlings to make up for the lost heat...
What do you all think about the distance from the plants? To low, to high, or just right???
Incadescents can not grow plants. they have no real light. period. can not be done. total waste. end of discussion. never use them.
fluorescent can do it. they are the lowest cost to just make it. but they are not that good. but can do the job. barely. best to have several lower lights all around the plant. then one shop light.
you must put the light as absolutely close as possible to the plant. With a 4 foot fluorescent I allow the leaves to touch the cool bulb. the good light falls off as the square of the distance. so distance is super critical.
The difference between 1 inch and 12 inches is 144 times more light at 1 inch then at 12 inches. That means it would take 144 lamps at 12 inches to give the same light from one lamp at 1 inch. I hope you now understand.
keep it cool to keep it close. the problem as you know is that when the bulb gets close it might burn the leaf. so keep it cool.
As the plant grows taller it will get closer to the light and the leaves will burn. measure the distance and make a note.
fluorescent can do it. they are the lowest cost to just make it. but they are not that good. but can do the job. barely. best to have several lower lights all around the plant. then one shop light.
you must put the light as absolutely close as possible to the plant. With a 4 foot fluorescent I allow the leaves to touch the cool bulb. the good light falls off as the square of the distance. so distance is super critical.
The difference between 1 inch and 12 inches is 144 times more light at 1 inch then at 12 inches. That means it would take 144 lamps at 12 inches to give the same light from one lamp at 1 inch. I hope you now understand.
keep it cool to keep it close. the problem as you know is that when the bulb gets close it might burn the leaf. so keep it cool.
As the plant grows taller it will get closer to the light and the leaves will burn. measure the distance and make a note.
get a fan, and aim it at the bulbs that way you can get them as close as possible.
with a small fan my PLL lamp can get within like 2 inches of the leaves.
with a small fan my PLL lamp can get within like 2 inches of the leaves.
I think it's pretty cool too. Keep up the good work.
some nice looking plants, as for the distance, I'd lower them down maybe 3-4 inches from the plants, although I may new to pepper plants I know for a fact that with them small ones they might start stretching, but wattage plays big role in that so basically higher watts more intense the light is so stronger lights are short and bushy plants 
, well that's how I see it.... but nice idea and good job 
, well that's how I see it.... but nice idea and good job 
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