MartialTheory

I have been using GE 9325K for about a year now and for a while my greens arn't so green. It wasn't just because I was looking at it with another spectrum. I got some other plants from other people and when I would try to grow them in my tank, they seem to grow but it would become a paler green than the green it already had when I first bought it.

I thought it was just my dosing problems. But I dosed CSM+B and iron to make sure there was high levels of iron. I have a flourite substate that should have high levels of iron to begin with. The plants in question are toninas and many other green plants I tried over the year. Even from dosing more iron, they still seem pale green.

On the other hand, my red plants look pretty red. There color is just fine. Is it possible that the K is the problem? Could it really be causeing the washing out of the green from my green plants?

KraKen

It may b because the plants are getting so much light that they don't need to produce as much chlorophyll so they are not as deep a green. I think that's also how red plant work, there's less chlorophyll so their other pigments are able to shine through, one time I put a sprig of anacharis in an applesauce jar with 30 watts of cfl light on it and it turned red.

MartialTheory

Hmm... Im gonna try and lower my lights and photoperiod to see if there is any changes. Thanks