florescent grow tubes vs warm/cool mix

hey guys im just starting into my first grow and i am using 4' florescent shop lights for my vedge room plus some CFLs. i was just wondering if anyone has compaired using plant/ aquarium lights to the normal tube types like cold/warm. the normal lights are rated at a coupple hundred more luminus but the plant lights are more color specific. any thoughts?

 

Alti, I just stuck a lighting tutorial above, check it out, it might answer yer Q!

 

thanks for the great info, unfortunatly it didnt cover much on the different colors of florescent lights

 

Yer right! I'll do more research, but for now, in my experience;

Blue = very green healthy but little vertical growth

Add cfl's and they start vertical growth as well, at least thats what happened in my veg room:>)

 

I find other way round red slightly leggy and blue small but well formed.

 

thats why you mix them and theys good, aquarium tubes are kinda pricey.

 

I use a mixture of daylight and sunlight florescent tubes in my veg room and had the same plus plant and aquarium tubes in bud room. They worked surprisingly well. I have since upgraded to t-5's in the bud room with red and blue bulbs and they kick ass

 

6500k is for veg and 2700k is for flowering.

some people mix at a 2:1 ratio during each respective cycle. if using cfl bulbs keep em like 2-4" away from plants. this will help keep the plants from stretching.