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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