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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: CliffordK on 17/02/2013 01:49:29
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The other day when I was shopping, I decided to get a couple of grow lamps.
They come in both incandescent, and fluorescent, and cost several times as much as an "ordinary" bulb.
The only thing that I can see is a blue paint. Plants don't effectively absorb green, so perhaps that is related. They also grow slower with UV, so are the lamps UV shielded?
Anything else?
Or... are they just a fancy bulb that manufacturers can charge exorbitant prices for.
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Sometimes a house burns down because it has been filled with high-intensity lamps for growing marijuana in hydroponics.
The electrical fires are often due to trying to bypass the electricity meter for the very high currents drawn by these lamps.
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Ahh.... yeah...
I am good at growing weeds.
But, I don't need to grow weed.
If I wanted to do that, I could simply move 100 miles North to the other side of the "river".
I found a Wikipedia page on Grow Lamps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_light). However, it doesn't really show a good comparison for effectiveness of the different grow lamps.
My goal was actually to get a little heat for starting seeds and plants, so I've chosen the incandescent bulbs for the time being. Heat + a little light.
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Apparently the spectrum output from the lamp can encourage/discourage the plant to flower.