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![]() what your asking for in your bulbs is a very difficult thing to do.....you will get the best growth from lower k bulbs(10000k) unfortunately the lower the k the more yellow the light appears, which is unappealing to the eye to most peeps....the higher k bulbs will help make most colors pop... some people will even mix in a purple/pink to make other colors pop, but you will be sacrificing growth to a degree ...it really boils down to what you like personally.....lately Ive been running a 50/50 mix of KZ "new gens" (a 14000k bulb) and KZ "superblues" (a 22000k bulb).......
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![]() Hmm.
If I have to choose between vigorous growth and pleasing colours . . . I'm selfish. I'll go with the pleasing colours. I found a 40B that I quite like as far as the lighting goes. It may be a touch harsh, and the pinks still look a bit blah. This is how it is being lighted: Lighting: 4x39 watt T5s overdriven to 64 watts each. One of each: ATI Blue Plus, ATI Aqua Blue Special, UVL Superactinic, GE 6500K Daylight. I won't be overdriving anything (whatever that means). Some really good suggestions have been made. Thx! Now I need to find more images to try to compare. |
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![]() Found one another one I really like (the pinks are still a bit lack luster):
ATi Blue Plus ATi Coral Plus ATi Blue Plus ATI Purple Plus ATi Coral Plus ATi Blue Plus Starry's suggestion is pretty representative of that look. What if I went with 2 ATi Blue Plus, one ATi Coral plus, and one Fiji Pink? |
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![]() I use 3x ATI blue+, 1x ATI Purple+ and I really like both the look and growth.
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![]() Well, I went with the ATi bulbs:
That should be a good starting point for me. I was having a hard time sourcing the bulbs from different manufacturers, so in the end I decided to purchase based on what I could get from one single source. They should be here Friday. I can't wait. ![]() Thanks for all of the help and suggestions! |