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Kgb: there's a lot you didn't tell us about the size of the fixtures you bought that you intend to hang on the side. I'm not much for side lighting. I bought a 2mm roll of Mylar and made aimed panels to recycle and reflect the light I already paid for back up. that was when I was growing with...

High: if SeeMoreBuds can harvest a half a pound under two curly-cue CFL's you do the math and figure. I think you'll find this varies a lot with the genetics of the strain you're growing, the nutrients you're using and the environment you're growing in. You might want to RTFB. Lighting is a very...

Reddfactor: you can grow from seed propagation to harvest under fluorescent lighting if you know what you're doing. If you watched the TV show, "American Weed," last year you saw that one of the commercial growers in town was vegging hos plants in the back of the dispensary under racks of T-5's...

Eddie: SeeMoreBuds, in his book grows with two lamps on his plant. I use two of the three frequencies you showed; the 5,000K to sprout and grow and the 2,700. Lighting is very important and it's a very complex subject but some people try to make it a lot more complicated than I think it really...

Lagarrett: you can learn something from this that might help you in the future: most of us don't like changes. When you plant seeds or clones try not to disturb them. When you do, especially if they haven't identified their sex, they often react by going hermie on you. Plan your grow before you...

Warbalig: I don't know what this has to do with fluorescent lighting, but Fox Farm is hot right our of the bag. You should have asked who ever sold it to you or they should have told you not to feed for at least a month and then only a 1/3 to 1/2 dose of what ever nutes formula you're using...

Lagarrett: What this has to do with fluorescent lighting is beyond me, but if it's growing balls and it has pistils too it sounds like you rescued a 'hermie.' Or maybe that change occurred from transplant shock when you moved it. Did you inoculate it with B-1? If it was doing well out side, as...

Lerufus: as we all are. Document everything you do and when you come up with something new that works for you please let us know. For the size of your grow you've picked the right size lamp. The two tube T-5 fixture is too narrow and won't do as well as a six tube that should cover a single line...

Killaspliff: you might want to look at Stealth Hydro's video at their web site. If I understand your question, they're doing what you want to do: drip from the top until your roots get established and reach down to the level of the reservoir? Although I'm against a comon water/nutrient supply...

SogFarmer: I don't necessarily agree with Hugo Phurst as the ascending bubbles in the water column are where your roots get their oxygen. And you want lots of tiny bubbles, not big ones. When it's on the top of the water the bubbles pop and the air goes back into the atmosphere where it came...

SmokinLabrador: Pushing the limits of air supply would be Aeroponics but to quote one of our hydro instructors at school, "Your plants need a lot more oxygen than they do water for their processes and they get it from the air." When I grow in dirt I use a lot of Perlite to aeriate the soil and...

Xtract44: I too toss the cheap ones and buy new ones at the 99 cents store, but I've gotten to like the good big fat ones from the hydro store. After I use the good ones I run them through the dishwasher on a sterilization cycle, soak them in a 10% bleach solution for an hour, give them a good...

Bigdawwg: You should have done your homework before you planted your seeds. I don't work in Celcius but as I recall your 15 to 16 degrees is pretty close to freezing. Our guidelines are a low 65 degrees F at night and ideally no higher than 75 in the day time. In dirt I've grown up to 80...

Hard Corps: I see we are from the same fraternity so here's what I know. It's the color of the light and nutrient change that will trigger flowering. You'll drop the long hours of light on as it occurs in nature from spring and summer to the shorter days of of fall and winter. Most folks go form...

Oldude: you'll probably find that most of them are growing and interested in only one thing. You might want to RTFB and refer to the following: 1. Read: SeeMoreBud’s book, “MARIJUANA BUDS FOR LESS- GROW 8 OZ. OF BUDS FOR LESS THAN $100.” 2. Read: Jorge Cervantes’s book...

MJM: all the more reason to keep spares on hand for situations just like that. Stressing a plant like that it might need two to three weeks to recover. I wish there was an easier way, but from what you ask, I think you might be new to this so I’d suggest you RTFB and refer to the...

KPmarine: adding air to your nutes with an external air pump is called 'supercharging your crop.' It helps because a lot of your plant's processes require more oxygen than is commonly found in water. The fact that you're not doing it doesn't mean you're doing it wrong and it doesn't mean we're...

Curto: Dee Tee could be right because plants need light, water, nutrients and oxygen. What aren't they getting? How big is the pot you've got it in? By your theory I have three Indica/Sativa strains almost three feet tall thriving out of 8" Eco Pots. They're well fed and regularly watered but...

Essdizzle: you might want to see what everyone else is doing and then ask because I think you're apparently blazing new territory. I'm attaching a write up I did a few months ago so we can have a common vocabulary to communicate with. Lighting is a very complex subject but some people try to...

Icebox: You're not getting a response because they might not understand what you're doing. I have T-5 fixtures two and four feet long. The two footers draw 35 watts and the fours draw 54 watts. An 8 watt tri-color T-5 is new to me. Where'd you get it? A picture might help. We need to set up a...