Horticultural Bulbs

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CasperCastle
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Horticultural Bulbs

Post: # 225849Post CasperCastle »

Hello!

This year I've been using some horticultural bulbs for a few hours each day in my cuboard to give seedlings a kick start, and they all seem to be going pretty much okay (especially the Tomatos, Pak Choi, Tobacco and Melons) but i was wondering if anyone knows whether they'd grow even stronger if I used the 250w-2700kelvin bulbs, rather than the 125w-6400kelvin bulbs? Or would the colour temperature just confuse them at this stage.

My mum seems to think that the 2700k bulbs are more akin to mid-to-late summer sun and might induce fruiting or flowering before they are even big enough to support themselves? ...but she's doesn't really have any practical experience of it, only ever having used few supermarket energy saving bulbs to start of some wild strawberry plants.

They are envirolights so they don't use much electricity at all, so that isn't the issue.

Thanks, any advice would be gratefully received!

CasperCastle
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Re: Horticultural Bulbs

Post: # 225851Post CasperCastle »

P.s. I know that some may argue that it seems silly to use any electricity what-so-ever, but from a personal-interest/amateur-botanics/sunday-scientist point of view it feels worth the few pence it costs to run, and also it seems to have dramatically increased germination rates from last year.

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