T 5 from Start to Finish

Great pics Cajun love the Mantis

Mantis are a Great idea, i was gonna use predator beetles.. like ladybugs
But i found this to be more effective and easier to manage crop after crop.
Diatomacious Earth Kills anything! not a poison! non toxic food grade.
i just dust it on with a Mini Duster like this one!

Really liking this show.
Everything looks great.

Looking good. I got 2 White Sharks going under a 6 tube T-5 day 13, I can't wait to see the end results. subbed and +rep.

gotta wait on the rep. I was told.

Well, I guess you weren't kidding about them being baby mantises....that thing is tiny (either that, or your plant is HUGE, lol).

Those plants are looking really happy in that box...should be a good harvest from this one.

Fed the girls today they took a whole gallon with no runoff buds are getting sticky and frosted and the smell has increased ,i think the growing taller is done and getting fat is coming into play now I use HB,products micro,bloom,grow,wih honey and awessome blossom will add MOAB in two weeks ,dont see many praying mantis at this time but i dont have any bugs either so Happy Farming people and thanks for all the feed back .Cajun

wildcajun said:

This is day 18 in-to flower Super skunk, just transplanted yesterday to the larger pot the girls are 42" tall from floor to top bud and just growing crazy 1inch a day .temps are around 73 lights on and 68 lights off sometimes to 64 use HB micro,bloom ,grow,and awessome blossom in flower will start HB honey soon

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What is that milk jug for? how does that work do you have a pump in it? I'll be the first to ask!

+rep to OP.... 2 bars for you sir

Could the mantis have gotten out? through ventilation or something? if there were no mites and nothing to eat in there they might have split.

If the mantises didn't have any grub they wouldn't have split..

...they would have devoured each other!!

R.I.P.

The jug is a sugar ,water ,yeast mixture with a tube to the base of each girl

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I'd give them closer to 3 weeks, but they definitley look good

Heres a suggestion.. When its chop chop time... just cut the largest buds (tops) that are ripe... then continue blooming.. you can sometimes get a second harvest off the small popcorn buds that will swell again and mature because the main colas are not using up all the energy! and light.
I have tried this with pretty good success... certain plants do not respond to this well.. but most i have seen and read about work. When this new bright light hits the lower nodes the plant goes into high gear with those buds and fills them out....
Some people even REVERT TO VEG, and allow the plant to regrow and can get a second albeit smaller harvest.

We have an update people!! Today is 51 days since i flipped the switch ,tricones are still clear but starting to look real full ,i think another week what about you?? Thanks Cajun

I came to the impression that you could only use T5s for vegetative growth and that you were supposed to switch to hps when its time to flower. Like Dirtfarmer said i thought T5s put off a lot of blue light sprectrum. Do they make a T5 bulb that puts out a red light sprectrum? If they do give me some info on that! cause my plants love the t5s i have them under right now and i am about to go out and buy a new hps bulb. The t5s put off a lot less heat than hps and t5s dont drive my electric bill out the roof!!! hit me with some information and Red Spectrum t5s PLEASE!!!

mjkiller said:

I came to the impression that you could only use T5s for vegetative growth and that you were supposed to switch to hps when its time to flower. Like Dirtfarmer said i thought T5s put off a lot of blue light sprectrum. Do they make a T5 bulb that puts out a red light sprectrum? If they do give me some info on that! cause my plants love the t5s i have them under right now and i am about to go out and buy a new hps bulb. The t5s put off a lot less heat than hps and t5s dont drive my electric bill out the roof!!! hit me with some information and Red Spectrum t5s PLEASE!!!

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read my thread in my Sig! all the infoe you need is there!

will get that info for you , because yes that is what i used , i will get the numbers off the light tomorrow when lights are on . Yes this was an experimint with the t 5 and they passed so far lest see how the smoke is , i can tell taht the other bud sites down low are not as fat as i like but i think another t5 on the side would help with that , and yes my power bill was a lot lower , had to run an a/c with the other lighting ,Cajun

wildcajun said:

View attachment 1663005View attachment 1663006View attachment 1663005View attachment 1663004View attachment 1663003View attachment 1663002Hello felllow farmers just a few Pics of the View attachment 1663001girls , i figure 2 more weeks then chop chop , should i remove most of the large fan leaves so the buds can get more light ? what do you think ?View attachment 1663000

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YES kill the yellow leaves...chlorophyll plays no part of this game @ this point... let the buds over ripen with the t5's extra few days its worth it! the lower buds WILL fill out. If you chop Just the colas the smaller popcorn WILL fill out..I cmmend you on your grow and hope to see more if it in the near future Keep it up!

I hope you don't have the lights angled up like that all the time, it looks like it would be a very inefficient position.
Don't ever cut off fan leaves.. The best thing to do is cut off little popcorn nugs at the very bottom/core of the plant, in early flowering.
At this stage I would just let her finish.

no lights go down as close as i can get them ,this was for a picture,Cajun