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Old 11-20-2007, 03:20 AM
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Lighting plant light

I have a few spectra of osram light tube. Can anyone give a comment?
After done some digging and using of T5 I still don't like the result. I read
somewhere that plant uses 400-500nm of blue light and 650nm of red light.
Osram have a series that built especially for plant. The spectra below
Man! i like the way it make just for plant. THis is L36-77 Flora
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However , locally this is not available.
I found a replacement. which is L36W 76

To me there is no much different between the two. What do you guys think?

To put things in prospective. I have here Metal halides OSram HQITS150WDL

and a HPS sodium vapour lamp.

which doesnt seem to fill the needs of plant! SO why pay $200 for something
don't work? Notice the blue spectra does not add up?

I have also thought of mixing a red light and blue light. Which also miss the
red wavelength by 50nm

However the blue seem to fill everything!

please comment

Last edited by digitalgate; 11-20-2007 at 03:23 AM. Reason: grammer
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