Recent content by pushu

I would agree with that you can't look at a lamp, let alone a bank of 8, and tell if they are dimmer. flourescents do get the grey end caps as they age but if they still burn then I am hoping to keep using them. I have been using the aquarium lamps that are not inexpensive and hope that I can...

I've gotten two grows out of my existing T5 lamps. I've been reading that the lamp life isn't all that long, so I am wondering how do you know when it is time to replace the lamps? Do you go by the number of hours the lamp has been on? All of my original lamps are working just fine - should I...

Maybe I should turn off the cfls... I'm just using those as sidelighting and to be honest, I'm not sure they really added anything that should keep my heat down

I did run the lights 12/12 I did not mention that I grew organically. Used a soil recepie I got here somewhere and fertilized with guano and earthworm castings teas - don't feel like I overfertilized them.

I did check the trics every day and when I thought I could see some amber, I waited a bit longer. When I harvested, I left a couple plants to grow longer (waited another two weeks) just to see if there would be some more changes (and there wasn't) Perhaps it was just the strain? One...

I have good airflow ... the box is about 32 cubic feet and I have a 180 cfm fan exhausing to the outdoors running 24 hours I kept track of the temps and for the most part temps were in the mid 80's when the lights were on If a 4' T5 lamp is 54watts then I had 432 watts of flourescent and...

not sure what you mean by bulbs overhead - but both 4' 4 lamp fixtures were overhead and the cfs were used as sidelighting the bulbs were new for this grow = I have a separate veg chamber. they were in there for six weeks and then moved to the flower chamber I use the 6500K lamps for veg and for...

tell me what info you need I mentioned I used two 4' four lamp fixtures (side lit with 6 cf lamps), mentioned the strain and I constantly adjusted the lights to keep them just inches off the canopy. I also grew as a sog keeping the tops very even

this grow was buddah haze, SSSDH (super silver something?) and one called DG-8 can you give me suggestions for strains that will get frostier? Does a frostier bud mean more potency?

just finished my first grow under T5. Used the aquarium lamps recommended in various post here on the forumn. very pleased with the product but my buds were no where near as frosty as many that have posted here. Don't get me wrong... they were a bit frosty but not quite like I had hoped for...

the humidifer is not in the same area as my plants. I have a very large basement and air exchange is not really an option. the water looks very clean and although I have not drank any, and don't plan on it, I guess I will pick one plant and do a test

my well water is very alkaline and I have to treat it in order to water plants with it I run a dehumidifer in my basement during the summer and it produces quite a bit of water, that I pour down the drain I did a ph test on the water and it came out to 6.8 do you think this water would be fine...

I thought parts 1 & 2 were very good but part 3 sucked big time. 1&2 were more like a documentary that was belivable and part 3 was like a shitty made for tv movie

I decided to forget the fuji purple and ordered the last three 54w red suns that hellolights had in stock added one coral wave-wave point and got free shipping

the cheapest I can find the fiji purple is 29.95 for a 4' T5 is that bulb really worth the money? I have a combination of coral wave and flora suns and plants seem to be doing well, but it's my first T5 grow so I have nothing to compare it to stayed away from the red suns after reading all...