Light ???
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whitebb2727
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That was directed at church.
Is that pic supposed to knock rm3?
I see some pure Sativa's in there. Those grow lanky and have spear heads.
I've seen and I'm sure rm3 has better pics.
I don't have nothing against either person.
Just don't see the point of what church is doing.
Its a t5 thread. We all know hid produces more. That's not the point.
I would like to discuss our t5's without all the childish bs.
whitebb2727
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UncleBuck
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t5 is great for vegging newly rooted clones!
Resinhound
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Ya, RIU is like a foot fungus for me... It never really goes away... And pretty soon the itch starts up again...
whitebb2727
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That statement is true.
They also flower good to. That pic I showed of the single cola is 18 inches or better and hard as a rock.
Hard nugs are genetics and temps.
Is t5 good for production growing? No, unless using them for clones and mothers and such.
For a small personal grow they are great.
bravedave
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Not "to" but with. My first year in my current room, I went beginning to end with the same MH. Improved yield every harvest, decent trichomes. Year 2 I switched in a new HPS 14 days into flower. Day 50 I switched back to the MH because of a noticable lack of trichomes in comparison to previous grows Since then I've added a 4bulb 4ft. T5 with blues and coral to the HPS and the trichs were brought up to the level I had come to expect from the straight MH. I have been running the same 2 strains into my third year. I know them. Please don't tell me I should believe you instead of my own eyes. Most other factors have been relatively static although I rule out almost nothing as being contributors because we are talking 2 years...not twenty.
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My plants also do not smell much. The guy who got me started's grow reaks unbelievably...still same strains also. I attribute the lack of smell to my not adhering to the "dry them out, water, dry them out, water" mantra but keep my peat moist. AND being a minimalist with the nute qtys. Also have not been using bloom mutes. Aquagold is in my future, however.
churchhaze
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I just digitized the spectrum of the GE LongLast 3000k 54W tube and found the LER to be roughly 361lm/W (374lm/W when truncated to PAR range)
The datasheet for the GE LongLast says tha the high output tubes have a luminous efficacy of source of 93lm/W.
http://www.gelighting.com/LightingWeb/emea/images/Linear_Flourescent_T5_LongLast_Lamps_Data_sheet_EN_tcm181-12831.pdf
That makes these tubes 25.8% efficient (24.9% efficient in PAR range)
A 600W HPS is about 35% efficient and has a way better spectrum for flowering than any T5.
The datasheet for the GE LongLast says tha the high output tubes have a luminous efficacy of source of 93lm/W.
http://www.gelighting.com/LightingWeb/emea/images/Linear_Flourescent_T5_LongLast_Lamps_Data_sheet_EN_tcm181-12831.pdf
That makes these tubes 25.8% efficient (24.9% efficient in PAR range)
A 600W HPS is about 35% efficient and has a way better spectrum for flowering than any T5.
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bravedave
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My HPS, like many it seems, is short on blues so i add some.
churchhaze
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That makes more sense than straight up growing with T5.
ttystikk
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Show me a better, more cost effective way to add UVB to my spectrum than T5. PLEASE. Until then, I'm kinda stuck with them.
Slipup420
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Exactly i stopped indoor all together only thing i do indoor is cuttings and veg once they get to big i repeat and cullAnother concept I toyed with many years ago is photomorphogenesis.
I now say "screw it all", drop a seed in a pot of soil, plant it outdoors where it's meant to be and not worry about it.
I'm a simple man.
Undecided if i will post any pictures of big out door grow i own 600 hectares and do No Till on 10 acres ,, MJ grow
I spread 18 tons with straw mixture of cattle manure and other supplements as per soil tests done 2 times a year 500 plants 2500 - 3000 pounds harvests consistent who the hell needs indoor
Run on fully automatic on solar power SDI system
I use Barley as cover crop which the cattle shit out naturally the sees
its a win win Nothing will ever compete to the SUN here is one of baby girls untouched 4 weeks temps have been cold this plant was out side 2 degrees and 2 " tall lol look at her she is staying in secluded are just out back
Slipup420
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A AM radio is good enough shit i am giving out to much info
Slipup420
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ttystikk
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That's one damn fine plant, regardless of what lighting tech it was grown under.
Resinhound
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What size pot is that in? And is that soil? That's a bad as plant man.
Slab
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Thanks for the great reading guys,
Esp, the mid day depression or afternoon wilt as my Gramps would call it. Lazy ass mater plants sleeping in the afternoon
This would occur regardless of temp, I summized it to be linked to saturation and radiation .
Also have experienced 30-40 plants laying down at the 11th hour of a 12/12.
What I found funny was reading about 11:13 light schedule championed by DJ short years later and the fact that is was a blueberry cross still makes me chuckle.
I have smoked alchapulco and Columbia gold, witnessed its golden color '( 77 -7
. Also have seen the same color on Moroccan buds that underwent a two year cure and a haze cross bud I found from a grow 5 years earlier from the gardener that had the space before me.
the boiling of the roots is how the farmers get on the golden path is what I have read.
They douse the root ball in a vat of boiling water.
I have also read that it is genetic , yet all the photos I see of the strain in veg look mighty green to me.
How did you come across your method with boiling water Riddle?
Esp, the mid day depression or afternoon wilt as my Gramps would call it. Lazy ass mater plants sleeping in the afternoon
This would occur regardless of temp, I summized it to be linked to saturation and radiation .
Also have experienced 30-40 plants laying down at the 11th hour of a 12/12.
What I found funny was reading about 11:13 light schedule championed by DJ short years later and the fact that is was a blueberry cross still makes me chuckle.
I have smoked alchapulco and Columbia gold, witnessed its golden color '( 77 -7
. Also have seen the same color on Moroccan buds that underwent a two year cure and a haze cross bud I found from a grow 5 years earlier from the gardener that had the space before me.the boiling of the roots is how the farmers get on the golden path is what I have read.
They douse the root ball in a vat of boiling water.
I have also read that it is genetic , yet all the photos I see of the strain in veg look mighty green to me.
How did you come across your method with boiling water Riddle?
RM3
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hours and hours of research