T-5 First Grow Attempt

BMWEATER

BMWEATER

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I debated a long time wether or not to post but i finally gave in....so comment away!!!

Basically as the title says this is my first attempt....heres what I got:

Plants:
1 Platinum Bubba Kush (5 gal bucket)
1 Sensi Skunk (supposedly) (3.5 gal bucket)

Lights:

4 2' t-5 HO's 24 watt 2,180 lumens each
2 4' t-5 HO's 54 watt 5,150 lumens each

Misc:
1 4" Fan
1 Co2 Boost used for 2 months of veg

Inclosure:
3x2x5 bookcase

Nutrients:
Tiger Bloom
Molasses
Hydroplex
All purpose foliar plant food
Mad Farmer (Mother of all Blooms)

Here are some pictures:
 

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crazy-mental

crazy-mental

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nice but would be better if you could hang a few of the flo bulbs for extra lite, co with flos, the plants nearly have to touch for full effect. what have you got about 150watt. may be more. more lite more buds.
 
BMWEATER

BMWEATER

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Crazy-mental;
The sensi was given to me as a dead plant and when i brought it back to life it started budding about 6 weeks ago. The bubba has been flowering for about 3 weeks. I was hoping with all the lumens that I aquired that i wouldn't need to add anymore light. How much more should I add?
 
crazy-mental

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you mite be ok . but if you want twice three time the buds then double your lite and try to get some to the lower parts of the plants. the lites youve got are ok for clones and vegg. youd be better off getting a 250 or 400hps and keep the lites you have, for clones and vegg.
if your serious about growing, youll need a hps . 3/4 smallish plants 250hps 5/6 400hps. id go with 400hps. the more lite the better, if your growing two plants you mite as well grow more and do it rite. you look like youve done a g8 job of bringing the plant back to life, go one better and get her a lite so she can show her full per. great job so far. the lites may be ok for sog, but i think your plants are outgrowing the flos.
 
KaliHustla

KaliHustla

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if you were going with CFL's you shoulda got the 4 foot 8 blub HO cause im veggin right now so I got all blue/cool bulb's in and I have 8 red/warm for bloom works great and I recently added a 95 watt HO CFL 6400k full spectrum and I am pushing over 60,000 Lumen's well i have 2 little MH lights I found at rite-aid go figure but look's good though bro
 
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F4t4LShot

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Do not listen to crazy-mental, my god. He is the last person to be giving advice. He just told you to get flo's so you can touch your plants to them. Hey crazy!! do you know what T-5's are? Obviously not. With enough T-5's you can get upwards of 100,000 lumens for half the price and NONE of the heat. And you can cover the full spectrum! These things are awesome! Got 3 4 footers in my room myself. Just dont listen to that guy dude. There was an article in high times recently about growing with T-5s. If you have enough, which you do, they can compete with any hps. And no, you dont need an hps to be serious about growing, thats bad information. T-5's are awesome, they grow great plants, they dont get hot, they use TONS less energy which is good for your wallet as well as mother earth. So no, dont listen to him and think you need different lights or a hps. What you have is completely fine. Your T-5's (which ARE "flo's" as you call them crazy-mental) are doing absolutely fine. Great grow man! Way to show everyone you dont need a certain light just because its popular. Im rebelling in my own little way :) Check out https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/30622-my-little-babies.html Sorry about all the mess though. About 15 pages are people shitting on me for doing more than one plant per pot and me defending myself. I pretty much explain my plans on the first page or two. Anyways, check em out. Tips, advice, anything is welcome.
 
BMWEATER

BMWEATER

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F4T4LSHOT;
I had to go with T-5's due to heating problems...and up in till now it seems to be working. I think that next week I will add 2 more 4' T-5's. That should add about 10,000 lumens....so we'll see how it goes!
 
KaliHustla

KaliHustla

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ya I have had great success with my my T-5's obviously HPS and MH work cause not 80% of grows would use them if they didnt work but the people who use them are going to swear to them so its really up to the person I used to have a 600 HPS and a 4 HPS light and my electricity bill was 169 dollars now on my T-5 its 68 dollar's and plus they produce a shit load of less heat so seriously man its really a personal preference do your own research and make your decision not these preference opinions Good luck man
Kali...
 
BMWEATER

BMWEATER

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kalihustler....i will finish this grow up with these t-s's and if i figure up the cooling situation i might try some other setups.
 
trapper

trapper

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F4t4LShot said:
Do not listen to crazy-mental, my god. He is the last person to be giving advice. He just told you to get flo's so you can touch your plants to them. Hey crazy!! do you know what T-5's are? Obviously not. With enough T-5's you can get upwards of 100,000 lumens for half the price and NONE of the heat. And you can cover the full spectrum! These things are awesome! Got 3 4 footers in my room myself. Just dont listen to that guy dude. There was an article in high times recently about growing with T-5s. If you have enough, which you do, they can compete with any hps. And no, you dont need an hps to be serious about growing, thats bad information. T-5's are awesome, they grow great plants, they dont get hot, they use TONS less energy which is good for your wallet as well as mother earth. So no, dont listen to him and think you need different lights or a hps. What you have is completely fine. Your T-5's (which ARE "flo's" as you call them crazy-mental) are doing absolutely fine. Great grow man! Way to show everyone you dont need a certain light just because its popular. Im rebelling in my own little way :) Check out https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/30622-my-little-babies.html Sorry about all the mess though. About 15 pages are people shitting on me for doing more than one plant per pot and me defending myself. I pretty much explain my plans on the first page or two. Anyways, check em out. Tips, advice, anything is welcome.
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how are t5s cheaper then hps my 600 was 140,my 8 t5s were 440,how do they use less energy,how many gramms per watt are you pulling off your t5s that make them way more efficient.
 
BMWEATER

BMWEATER

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Yesterday my plants received all the nutrients, so I will have some photos posted later on tonight to show their growth!
 
BMWEATER

BMWEATER

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KaliHustla said:
what you mean??? beamer??
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What I mean is that I am really unsure of the amount of heat that is put out by halides and such...so I am going to wait and finish up this grow with these t-5's, evaluate the situation and from there proceed to bigger and better things if needed.
 
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