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Why do you suggest a vita-lite? Those are just floros with added blue spectrum I think. Mushrooms aren't plants, they don't make chlorophyl, so why would they need anything more than enough light to know which way is up?

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Im not a professional mycologist so I cant break it all down for you, but shrooms do better in blue spectrums. below is a quote from the TMC about lighting.

"The best type of light tube is ne which most closely resembles natural outdoor light: i.e. one that has at least 140 microwatts per 10 nanometers per lumen of blue spectra (440-495nm)In contrast, warm white Florecent lights has only 40-50 microwatts/nm/lum. and cool white has 100-110 microwatts/nm/lum. Commercial lights meeting the photo-requirements of species mentioned in this book are the "Daylight 65" kind manufactured by the Durotest Corporation and having a "color temperature" of 6500k and the "Vita Lite" flourescent at 5500K These color temperatures provide the proper amount of blue light for promoting primorida formation in the Pleaurotus ostreatus, Psilocybe Cubensis, and other photosensitive species"

they may not be a plant, but light still has an effect on them beside knowing which way is up. Hope this helped

These lights are made with the intrest to radiate the blue spectrum. Some lights even have charts on the side showing how well their light compares against others when it deals with "blue light"

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