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By Wjolly01
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Hello everyone! I wanted to post my setup and see what everyone thought about it and what I can improve. I live in a condo with no space to put plants outside but the room they are in has lots of windows. The plants are on a rack with only 4000k (I got this before I knew they should be 6500k) leds at the top and the light on the side is a 100 watt equivalent florescent that has warm light and I have some 100 watt equivalent 6500k led bulbs coming in next week that I was planning on switching to but since the pitchers are about to flower should I keep the side light warm? Let me know what y’all think.
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By nimbulan
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Color temperature is really not that important, though the usual recommendation is somewhere in the range of 3000k-6500k. I primarily use 4000k LEDs myself. There's no reason to switch color temperatures while a plant is flowering.
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By Wjolly01
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Joined:  Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:12 am
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Thank you for the response! I am happy have all the help I can get. I think I might switch the side bulb to the 6500k led since the CFL is very warm light. I want to make sure these pitchers flower and try my hand at cross breeding them.

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