T-5 start to finish

wanna see where this goes..........

i use t5's start to finish, i use two 2ft 4 bulb fixtures with 5/6 cfls for more coverage. I have a small grow room, 3x3x4, my plants only get 2/3 feet tall, and i only grow like 3 maybe four plants. I can get anywhere from 3/4oz to and oz1/2 per plant which is just barely enough to get me by till my next harvest. I works great if you have limited grow space, i have no heat problem. But if you have the room to go HID do it.

my first grow i went with 5 48" t-5's and a few supplemental 24" t-5s, the grow way nice the harvest was not so good, at least not what i expected. The buds appeared and looked very nice but they were fluffy and not dense. I ended up with a total of 3.25oz from 3 plants 2 were really healthy one was weak due to noobie accidents

HID is the way to go, i say 400watt HPS, 600 HPS if you can handle the heat

I have a height restriction in my room which makes sativa dominant and HID near impossible. I am on my third round now of using (6) 4' T5HO and have been thrilled with the results. I use a sylverstar overhead 4 bulb and 2 seperates lights horizontally on each side to help the lower ends of the plants develop. Mix that with LST and I think you'll be happy with the results of T5 also

yes i do, i am indifferent about the resutls... the buds are still nice, though they could probably do better with an hps...i would definetly do some sort of training, which is what I did this grow...

red grape sunleave pioner VI--6xt5s from start to almost finished

during flowering you will get fluffy buds, there is no getting around that. t-5 during flowering yeilds way less than hps, but it depends on what you are looking for, a large harvest or jus an experiment or a little smoke for now and then

well i really really like smoking weed so i guess id say a large harvest

HPS brotha

and if u wanna get some potent shit, make sure you veg with MH to get that radioactivity going in the plant, then switch to HPS during flowering

I use four 4 ft t-5s across the top and two four footers on each side. Aside from the fluffy bud it actually does pretty well. I grow in a 4x6 area with a low ceiling so I don't have the room for HD's. I have to admit that I am very content with the flouro's. Next grow I am going to switch from the grow lights after veg to the aquarium lights for flowering.

The last grow I had with this system yielded some really potent bud! Also with flouro's you pay less money, don't have to worry about overheating or fire and can keep adding side lighting from grow to grow.

Good luck!

you'll only have to worry about fire if you daisy chain too many together, otherwise flo's are cool, but like i said its just a yeild thing. My first grow i was happy with, im seeing what i can do with HID now

Hey Bobby, I do want to try HD's so bad and I just can't imagine what it would be like getting that huge yield! I do think it's a good idea for the Newbys to start with the flouros or cfl's to get their feet wet and reduce on the amount of mistakes that can be made.

What would be the cost of a typical hd system for a 10-15 plant operations, any ideas?? See, the gears are already turning!!!!

Check out my grow journal! I apologize that I haven't updated it in a couple weeks, but my buds are looking beautiful! I will pots some pictures of them before I harvest in another 2 weeks...

I will however be upgrading to a 400w or 600w HPS for my next grow. No offense to the t5's, but they just don't offer enough penetration. I want better buds =[.

They did a good job though. For the price they cost me I'm very happy! I didn't have time or the money originally to setup adequate cooling for a HPS. So for a 1/2 ass setup they did well.

GoldenGanja13 said:

Has anyone used T-5s from start to finish? What was your experience? Do you have any pictures, and suggestions on the subject.

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https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/33421-my-current-set-up-journal.html
The thread is kinda closed as it is not my current setup anymore, here is a link with lots of discussion about using t-5's, I still have three of them in use now. VV

Illegalbreather said:

Hey Bobby, I do want to try HD's so bad and I just can't imagine what it would be like getting that huge yield! I do think it's a good idea for the Newbys to start with the flouros or cfl's to get their feet wet and reduce on the amount of mistakes that can be made.

What would be the cost of a typical hd system for a 10-15 plant operations, any ideas?? See, the gears are already turning!!!!

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your avatar is killing me, who is that girl

hey Bobby, that's my ex-girlfriend. Craziest bitch I ever met in my life, oh but when I go to my grave all the nasty memories I have!!!!

You got me thinking about how crazy she is, I had to change it!

Well just keep the T5's about 6" away if areo/hydro, Soil keep light about 3-4" away (areo/hydro can gain 1"+ with in 24 hours,as for soil SLOW) for now just veg them honey's out get a good humidome and clone/veg. see if someone needs a Female clone or alot and trade for a good carbon scrubber,fan,HPS with good glass cover,ECT.... Paitence my son....

up till now i have used t-5s for propagation and hps for veg and flower. now i veg under the 8 bulb set. my plan is to get a revolving harvest going. clones under the 4 bulbs, veg under the 8 bulb and flower 1000w hps. the plant below where seed to 3 weeks veg all under t-5

hydro guy talked me into the 2' 4 bulb 96w at 6500k ea. nothing better to clone with IMO. he also had a used set come in on a trade in. i picked them up for $160 2' 8 bulb 192w. there was 2 different types of bulbs in the light when i got them. when ask he told me that the guy was using them to flower with. he said if i had planned to flower with them i would need to keep the same bulb set up the previous guy had. something about light spectrum.

do you guys use the different spectrum bulbs. i am to stoned/lazy to go check, but i will post later what the bulbs i have are.

heres a pic.

the other bulbs are 24w at 3000k ea. the only other difference is the brand and of course k rating.

anybody have any mutations like i have with the T-5s. mostly in fan leaves that where close or touching the lights?

for those who have gave up, or thinking about giving up on the T-5s for flowering. how many watts where you using? was the yields equivalent to HPS at the same watts?

IMO you cant compare 2' 4bulb T-5 to a 250W or 400w hps. you would need to have 4 of them to get close to the 400w. i would like to see someone who has used 400watts of T-5 lighting during flower, i think it would stand up the the HPS. WATT for WATT. and blow HPS away $ for $.