Compact Fluorescent CFL 45W Perfect Daylight Grow Light Compact Fluorescent Plant Grow Lights 45W

The first one of these I bought lasted from January 2014 to the end of November 2015, on 8-9 hours per day every weekday. (It's not totally dead yet either; just starting to flicker.) It kept my poor indoor office plants with zero natural light alive and happy like nothing else could. It also made my office much more bright and cheery! Fantastic value at such a low price. I'm buying another right now.Update: Second one lasted from November 2015 to August 2017 before starting to flicker. Time for another one! :)

This light WAS working perfectly for my wife's orchids - regular grow lights generate too much heat that wilt the leaves, but this light runs cool and generates more light than I expected. The orchids have responded extreamly well.UPDATE: Light failed after 8 months - CFL lights are rated for 10'000 hours - but this comes nowhere close - I recommend finding a different manufacturer.

The bulb was nice and bright, but runs hot. I connected it in November of 2010 and now in Jan 2011 it doesn't work anymore. I didn't even use it everyday. I thought CFL's last for couple of thousand hours, this one died in couple of hundred hours. I used it with standard socket without any dimmer. Be careful the bulb won't last too long.

I bought this light bulb to put in a lamp next to a house plant that I have in a darkish room. And I turn it on without the lamp shade a couple of days a week for about an hour and it works great. My plant started growing again and is no longer dying. It is however a little too tall for the lamp I put it in, but it still works.

This light is just what it appears to be, a light in the grow light spectrum. The one thing you need to keep in mind is that the light is larger than the standard fluorescent bulb. I would recommend this product to my friends.

I replaced incandescent grow lights with these CFL lamps. They give more light, only need a small fraction of the power, don't heat up the area, and pose much less of a fire hazard than hot incandescent lamps do. I expect them to produce more plant growth because of the higher light output, but I won't know for sure until I've had them in use for more time.

The CFL bulb I received has no BRAND name listed on it, just a "fulfilled by Amazon" sticker on a generic box!Does not look like the example pictured, long/skinny 2.25" diameter instead of the expected 3" dia.Generic sticker on box rated 5500K temp. (not 6500K) and the the CFL is stamped PHOTOGRAPHY bulb?Yeah, I know they can do both, still it's SOLD as a Perfect Daylight Grow light CFL.Runs VERY, VERY HOT and light output was insufficient for one(1) small (7-8" tall) indoor Jalapeno plant, it died...........IMHO, not well suited for the purpose intended (to HOT)!

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