Olive Drab Green
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And they're water proof.
200$ bucks too spend and torn between led and t5 type
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Olive Drab Green
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They actually probably aren't water proof. Just kidding. Only trying to win you a Darwin Award.
Walterwhiter
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Thanks for the info guys! No hard feelings to the cob and led guys. I'm going t5 4 bulb fixture. It's easy and just seems more reliable to me. Having said that I still maintain a high intrest in leds and will be following yalls grows @Olive Drab Green. I'm interested to see how the 2 vipars work out.
Any suggestions on bulbs: brands watts and all that jazz. Are they like the cfls in the regard that they have to be fairly close to the canopy? And what would be more effective: a separate veg/flower bulb set or just one mix between the 4 for both stages?
Any suggestions on bulbs: brands watts and all that jazz. Are they like the cfls in the regard that they have to be fairly close to the canopy? And what would be more effective: a separate veg/flower bulb set or just one mix between the 4 for both stages?
Olive Drab Green
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Definitely. I was just considering writing a skit where a few of us represented by students with our avatars taped over their faces are in a college class room at "RIU."
@RM3 's the professor. @.Pinworm. throws something at someone, @sunni walks in and pulls him out by the ear. He later returns. @UncleBuck's avatar is on an African American chick's body and she's Columbine-ing @zeddd. I can't stop talking, so @Gary Goodson chugs a beer and punches me in the face and RM3 asks me to be quiet at the same time @sunni pokes her head in the door and yells the same thing. @cannabineer 's trying to be nice and use ASL to translate for @Alienwidow who's not even in his body. @Tyler Durden ponders what's going on for like, two seconds, then is like "Fuck it, too cool for school." @Unclebaldrick and @bu$hleaguer are cannibalizing the dessicated body of some new guy along with @Singlemalt & @srh88. @abe supercro 's just shaking his head. Police come in dressed as @Dankonomics_genetics .
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SPLFreak808
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2100k looks white to you?
SPLFreak808
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@Walterwhiter whatever you go with, stay away from spiral cfl bulbs. Any light will work but its all subjective to your environment and grow methods.
thewanderingjack
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hehe... I think that's really the thing with inexpensive... nowadays that mostly means cheap, which at the very least means unreliable. I def still have complaints, like the area coverage on bloom (like 1.5x2.5? I have to use the full spectrum 300wats to get better coverage), but it had overall good reviews on amazon and was only $78. If It can last me a couple of grows, I can save up for something nicer... so yeah, it's a flip... maybe you get a bad one, maybe it doesn't last... or maybe (and I hope this is me) it works out for a good long while...
Olive Drab Green
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ViparSpectra's not much more expensive. $99 for the 300, $149 for the 450. Cheap and quality, for sure.
thewanderingjack
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Yeah so long as you keep giving updates on yours, I'll keep checking, maybe that's what I'll try next time... I do want a second 300w anyway... (doing 2 chambers)
Olive Drab Green
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Alright, that's pretty fair.
SoOLED
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my 4ft 8 T5 lamp tank of a fixture is retired. replaced by a cob solution.
you're not going to grow anything under two 4ft t5 tubes.
you will veg, albeit slowly and things will look pretty good.
but once you flip, w/o additional lighting, it will get ugly.
just listen for that bit of money $200 there is NO other solution then HPS.
heat from 1 600w hps is nothing. T5 pumping BTU's too ( I know we don't like lumes) 33,000- 40,000 Vs's 600 hps is 90,000-116,000 covert that to PPFD/umols.
people who grow with T5's have specialized-experience and cycles with T5's to produce "good" results. anyone can pick a 600 hps and grow.
TBH, if fucking your gonna do that, get T12's, its still wrong solution for the money.
I don't want anyone to fail, but I hope you post your grow.
Walterwhiter
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Good point but I know I will be able to veg and if Need be I can find an led to supplement in once it's time to flip. Wich is going to be at least 5 weeks for me.
Walterwhiter
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And again I see the hps light pushed but I would have to purchase in line fans and vents. And I'm not too keen on the kind of heat signatures they put off. Eyes on the sky!
mauricem00
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when your shopping at home centers just be sure that your getting T5HO fixtures. a lot of the fixtures they sell are standard T5s
SPLFreak808
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Wait, what lights did you plan to use without ventilation?
Don't worry about heat signature, you would need to be venting hot air out of a house at night for visibility and it takes a couple thousand watts just to not look like a heater.
Olive Drab Green
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Most of this is just from a single V450. I just added a second one Thursday or Friday. This was taken 3 days ago.
mauricem00
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sounds like a good Ideal. red led flowering bulbs are easy to find on E-bay. when my supply of flora suns run out I am thinking about use in bright red (630nm) led strip lights to add red to the spectrum produced by my 6500k veg lights for flowering. nothing wrong with hybrid lights. taking advantage of the best of both worlds.
Bubblin
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My electric bill can eat a bag of dicks.But your electric bill is going to know......
mm wait, last month it did, and I think mine was in the bag.
Olive Drab Green
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I think what you're trying to say is "I put a bag full of dicks in my mouth to pay my HID-hijacked utility bill." ;0