Noob question

I am thinking about buying a 4ft T5 bulb they say it has 5000 lumens and a reflector.Do you guys think I would be able to grow a decent yielding plant with this?thanks--

It will grow a decent yielding plant through her veg stage.....and while she's vegging you could save some £££s or $$$$s and get a 150hps?
I wouldn't like to comment on flowering with a T5 though....

Yar great for veg not so good for flower. You'd have to buy a different spectrum bulb for flowering anyway so just buy a nice HPS for flowering.

It depends on how big you let the plant get and also is this the 4 bulb or 8 bulb T5? I've had to downgrade from a 1000 watt to T5 and some cfl's and pulled 2.25 oz's off three plants.

My suggestion would be if your set on using the T5 is to invest in a bunch of CFL's to use with it during flower. OR for the money your gonna spend on a 4ft T5 just buy a 150 hps and then use some cfls for veg. might take abit longer too get a proper sized flowering plant using cfl but at least you'd be able to flower with a 150hps. Just my two cents.

woops let me add if your gonna flower with the T5 then buy flowering bulbs as well but for all that money you should really just get a 150hps imo

TheToker said:

I am thinking about buying a 4ft T5 bulb they say it has 5000 lumens and a reflector.Do you guys think I would be able to grow a decent yielding plant with this?thanks--

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*do a quick search for t5 growers & grow threads, ive seen some decent results just using t5s all the way (veg/bloom)..

--cheers