Philips Plant & Aquarium 40 watts 4' - T12 tubes

[Bert de Truim]

Hello folks. This is my first post on this neat site. I usually do outdoors crops. However, I've been the recipient of a box of these (band new) 8 or 10 and they're 1600 lumens. I have 4 of them in a fixture and figured I should give them a try on some new found beans. Does anyone have suggestions or experience with this kind of tube. Is it better to just use regular daylight bulbs? I would like to give this a try. Or should I abandon this for something else? Help would be greatly appreciated as I've never attempted growing indoors. Thank you.

 

[Karlee]

If anything use them for vegetating but you need more for the flower stage . I have T5 4 tubes fluorescent light it puts out 6400 lumens. I use that for veg. then go to 600 watt halide. People from here have all kinds of lights just keep looking for one that will work for you.