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Can you get a light bulb with too many lumens? Is 1790 too high?
    #19508714 - 02/01/14 11:27 PM (10 years, 16 days ago)

I keep my terrarium about 10 feet from a 5x5 window which should be suffice lighting, unfortunately I live where the weather is extremely inconsistent. Lately we have been having either a pretty intense overcast or clear sky's.

I have noticed on the sunny days my fruits grow much more rapid and more pins develop. On the overcast day's it's easily half the speed of progress if not less.

I went and bought a lamp that I can aim at the terrarium and got a 1790 lumen halogen floodlight bulb for the days that there's an overcast. Is this an overkill? I was thinking there would be more blue light and the more the better, but figured I should ask before aiming this bright as fuck thing at my cakes lol.

If it's an overkill, would it be ok to aim it at the cakes say 2 hours a day? Or could it only harm it? And what bulb specs would be optimal?

The room is a consistent 73 degrees Fahrenheit

Thanks in advance,
Lyghtsout


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Re: Can you get a light bulb with too many lumens? Is 1790 too high? [Re: Lyghtsout]
    #19508749 - 02/01/14 11:42 PM (10 years, 16 days ago)

Just get a CFL bulb with a kelvin rating of 6500.


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Re: Can you get a light bulb with too many lumens? Is 1790 too high? [Re: mushmagic]
    #19508769 - 02/01/14 11:51 PM (10 years, 16 days ago)

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mushmagic said:
Just get a CFL bulb with a kelvin rating of 6500.



:whathesaid:    6500K


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Re: Can you get a light bulb with too many lumens? Is 1790 too high? [Re: PussyFart]
    #19508781 - 02/01/14 11:55 PM (10 years, 16 days ago)

Yeah I just looked at the kelvin rating and it's 2,900 :frown: back to wally world for me :p thanks for the responses :-) - does lumen's matter at all? Or is kelvin's the main concern?


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Re: Can you get a light bulb with too many lumens? Is 1790 too high? [Re: Lyghtsout]
    #19508906 - 02/02/14 12:35 AM (10 years, 16 days ago)

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Lyghtsout said:
does lumen's matter at all? Or is kelvin's the main concern?




Kelvins....but, I bought two 6500K bulbs recently.  One package read Daylight 6500K.  The other one just had Daylight. So I did look at the lumens to compare.  One was 1150 lumens and the other was 1200, so I knew I was good to go.


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