Growth Bulb = Heat Bulb?

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

So, Homedepot sold me a bulb that's supposed to be a plant life bulb, didn't save the Hibiscus bush but lets off heat. Would it be fine to use it as my heat bulb as well as added light for the Ficus? 60 Watt "Plant Light" from PHILIPS 120 Volt, Argo-Lite A 19.


Any help would be great, don't want too many lights on my guy don't need to use it at all if its gonna be a problem (or if its worthless.)

 

[nightanole]

Your fine to repurpose as a basking light. Growth light just means 5k-6k in color, instead of normal room lights that are 3k-4k. Also 60watt incandescent isnt going to do squat for a Hibiscus. You would need something of the magnitude of 100watts of florescent with reflectors. AKA about 10x the light.

PS for basking lights i use the 3 pack of 65 watt (4K hours) GE flood lights for 10 bucks.

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Thanks

I'll never figure out the lights, the guy said specifically it'll keep a hibiscus alive.

Figures.

 

[EvilLost]

So, Homedepot sold me a bulb that's supposed to be a plant life bulb, didn't save the Hibiscus bush but lets off heat. Would it be fine to use it as my heat bulb as well as added light for the Ficus? 60 Watt "Plant Light" from PHILIPS 120 Volt, Argo-Lite A 19.


Any help would be great, don't want too many lights on my guy don't need to use it at all if its gonna be a problem (or if its worthless.)

Ignore all that garbage marketing.


Heat bulb: Any bulb that puts out heat (typically this is an incandescent bulb)

Plant "growth" bulb: (GENERALLY) any bulb that puts out light ~6500K (this is independent of the "type" of bulb, so you can have a 6500K incandescent bulb providing heat and light to your plants yes).

However, be cautious when doing this as the heat bulb puts out....well heat. Don't put your plants too close or they might dry up/fry!

You don't need those fancy connector bulbs neither....they make alll these things in "standard" screw-in style.

 

[SarahcoadunatioZac]

Every store I went too didn't have spectrum colors on the "Plant bulbs" I'll be looking at all the other bulbs now to see if I can get a real plant light. Just glad I can do a 2 for 1 on my Ficus, don't think it'll need it but it couldn't hurt.

Thank you for the help