Review on 🌱 Optimized Philips 415307 120W Plant Light by Jacob Seymour

I bought 4 of these for plants. I struggled to get them to work well, moving them closer and further, trying to find a good middle ground. The problem with this light is twofold: First, it generates a lot of heat. Second, it has very, very low lumens. Philips puts these at around 270 or 280 lumens. A cheap 150W (42W) CFL produces 2800 lumens with very little heat! Think about it. CFLs are cheaper, generate less heat and have nearly 10 times the luminous flux. Also, this light is more yellow than white or blue. It's somewhere around 2700k in the light spectrum; As such it is not very good to use for a vegetative state which usually requires something close to daylight which is usually between 5000k and 6500k. So if you use them I'd say use them on flowering or already established plants - for example when replanting plants for the winter. They use too much power, generate too much heat, don't produce enough light (lumens), and have terrible Kelvin range. I would not recommend them for growing houseplants. Buy some CFLs instead - 6500,000 for vegetative growth or around 2700,000 for flowering.