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Re: Algae and Incandescent Lighting
Tom Wood writes:
> Dennerle claims that algae prefers lighting with a blue
> spike while plants prefer lighting with a red spike in the spectrum.
<snip>> Incandescent lights are high in red and low in blue, at around
3000K.<snip>
Okay, here you are saying that incandescents are better for vascular plants
than for algae because they have low CRI temps.
<snip> The
> color rendering index (CRI) of most low light temperature lamps is not good
> compared to lamps in the 5000-6500K range lamps.
Now you are saying lights with low CRI temps are NOT good for vascular plants.
Am I confused or are you?
Bob Dixon