I would personally suggest just doing a small grow a couple plants under an HPS, do that until you understand the plant and your setup and everything well enough to answer all of your above questions on your own.
Not trying to bring you down, it just seems like theres alot of this around here...
Honestly for $69 I would rather just buy it than try and fiddle with one myself. Just wondering if you think that smaller unit would work sufficiently for a smaller grow?
These are the long 22" twin T4 tube plug-in CFLs.
Ordered a couple ballasts/sockets/bulbs and designing the cab right now. I'm just wondering from someone who has actually grown with these how hot they get when they run?
I have heard varrying reports from them being cool enough to let...
Thanks for the help, I'm still a bit confused though, mainly about the part where you say it will work in any socket a incandescent will work in. But it has the 4 pin connector rather than the twist-on like normal bulbs. I'm mainly looking for information on what other materials I will need...
Thanks I'll go stop in and see if they have some, I was also thinking.... What about aquarium lighting? Anyone know if any of the local petstores carry some High Output T5s?
I wanted to use some sort of flat fluorescents such as T5s, but after looking into it, it costs like $200 to ship anything that size to me even for the bulbs. So I'm looking into solutions from the hardware store instead. I'm looking into making a fixture similar to the T5HO 1s you can buy...
Thats all well in good and I would agree with it in most cases, and I would definitely buy one there before getting one shipped (I don't think they stock T5s though do they? didn't see anything last time I was there) but unless you have plenty of money to throw around which I don't which is why...
I wanted to look into buying a T5 setup but I live in Hawaii and after looking at the outrageous shipping rates to order any fixtures over even the bulbs to put in them out here I guess I'll be turning to the hardware store route. Its not that I have a strict budget, I just really can't accept...
*Looks at the other posts...*
4 posts from yourself 1 from some guy disagreeing with you and another from me disasgreeing with you... This makes the highlighted portion seem very funny to me, maybe I'm just high lol.
Honestly though what were all trying to tell you is that your looking to...
Hey guys, I been looking into buying some T5s for my indoor veg but realised the shipping here for any of those fixtures even the bulbs is rediculous... Do any of you know of anywhere in the islands I could get High output fixtures and bulbs in the 6500k 3000k range? I know the ones you get at...
:/ Damn so I checked it out and I happen to live in Hawaii, and shipping here is going to be as much or more than the unit itself...I figure I'm better off going with something I can get at Lowes/Home Depot/Walmart etc. Do any of you know if they have any T5 fixtures that would work just as...