Grow Hydro Weed

Several lighting manufacturers make “gro-tubes” that generate a great deal of their radiance in the vital red and blue bans that grow hydro marijuana seeds weed.

• Plant-gro made by GE
• Gro-Lux made by Sylvania
• Agro-Lite made by Westinghouse
• gro-lum made by Norelco

Are examples and appear purple or pink.

• Vita-lite produces a white light with a natural spectrum very similar to daylight.
• Optima’s Duro-test bulbs are more expensive than other tubes but they last twice as long and produce an action spectra of chlorosynthesis and photosynthesis.

  compared to that of human vision.

Theoretically, these tubes should work better for growing marijuana plants than standard lighting tubes.

However, some standard or regular fluorescent tubes used for lighting actually work better for growing plants than more expensive natural-spectrum tubes and gro-tubes specifically manufactured for marijuana plant growth.

The reason is that regular fluorescent produce more light known as lumens, and the overall lumen output is more important for growth rate than a specific light spectrum.

To compensate for their spectrums, use them in combinations of one “blue” fluorescent to each one or two “red” fluorescent.

Manufacturers employ consistent names such as Daylight and Soft white to allocate a tube that has a certain degree of whiteness. Each name corresponds to a tube that emits light in a meticulous combination of color bands.

For example, Cool White emits more blue light than other colors and appears blue-white. By combining tubes that emit more blue light with tubes that emit more red light.

The tubes balance each other and create a more accepted spectrum for healthy marijuana plant growth.

More “red light” than “blue light” sources is needed to cultivate healthy marijuana growth, so use two red tubes to each blue tube.

The best combination are either Warm White or Soft White (red) tubes used with both Cool White and Daylight (blue) tubes. These four tube types are:

• Universal
• much cheaper
• when used in combination, will give you a better return than any of the more expensive “gro-tubes” or natural-spectrum tubes.

Any hardware store carries these ordinary lighting tubes, and the cost may be a smaller amount than a dollar each.

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