phillipchristian
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Thanks for the info but I'm not a pothead. I'm actually a very sucessful high end real estate developer and I also own an import company in Central America.
Unless you are growing SOG or SCROG then a T5 light will never give you sufficient penetration to produce anything but popcorn buds. The information you posted is interesting and I'm going through it right now but you take one of my plants and stick it under a T5 with 8 bulbs and another one under a 600w HPS it;s not even going to be a comparison. You are speaking to a very small niche in the grow market. I agree with the study regarding UVB light and this is why it's been in my flower room for almost 3 years. As far as T5 daylight bulbs producing a better spectrum; you may be on to something. I'm just not in the mood too replace 1 1000w HID light with 5 8lamps 4' T5 fixtures per plant. That's about the only way you are going to get the penetration and disbursment you would need.
I'll give it up to Hyroot. He makes a hell of an argument and has actually provided a lot a really useful information. An cool colored charts too!
here's my thing; and be honest. Are you telling me that a 6 lamp 4' T5 can replace my 1000w bulb? How am I going to grow 6' tall plants under a T5? There is no penetration at all. I can see how it works great in a SOG or a SCROG but for us TREE growers I really don't see one of those being able to adequately light a taller plant. Let alone 6-9 of them which is how many my 1000w does.
Like I said before; I actually am starting to believe SOME of your arguments and I do appreciate the info. That being said...you are not helping your argument by saying you pulled 12.5 ounces out of a 2x4 tent using just fluoros. Give me that tent and a 600w HID light and I'll show you yield.
Fact of the matter is I just can't grow my trees with fluoros. I would need hundreds of them. And I really don't think it would be cheaper. $400 for a 1000w ballast, bulb, reflector. I would need at least 3 2' 6 lamps T5's to cover the same area. That's $400 in fixtures without the specialty bulbs.
...Or plasma lighting. But who has $1500-$5000 to replace a 1000w HID?
Fact of the matter is if you grow any plant over 3 feet tall then HID is really your only viable option right now. Plasma lights are fucking expensive and hot as shit with no way to cool them except a/c because they can't be put in a hood.
Here are all of my posts in this thread. Please explain to me where it is that I am talking shit or defending someone who is? I'd love you to come and educate me you pompous douche. You can't handle even a simple disagreement with your theory. You barely have the social skills to survive in a forum thread without throwing a temper tantrum. Go back and look at your forst post. Who's the fucking anti-social ass clown? You come in screaming and yelling like a know it all and no one will listen to you. Piece of advice...get out of the classroom and get a life. All the facts you love to regurjitate don't mean shit if you lack the social skills to convey them in a manner that doesn't end up with you looking like a fucking toolbag. Your buds are fucking small and the ones that are harvested are even smaller. Show me 1 fat cola under a fluoro and I'll shut the fuck. Promise!! You can't and you know it. So you keep on surrounding 1 purely indica plant with $1000-$1300 in lighting and I'll keep growing my 60 hybrid plants with HID horizontal and vertical lighting. On a small scale almost anything can be done...when those applications are then transferred to the real world...well, that's when 99% of them fall into the gutter..for one the pics of plants were at 4 weeks and 6 weeks. Not even done yet. If you have grown you could tell that. The finished buds are very ripe. The trichomes are mostly amber. More cbd. No density......??? Are you kidding they are rock hard buds. The buds come out more denser under the t5 morevthan the 1k because I have a bulb that puts out 35% infrared. Like I said I do pure indicas. I dont fuck wuth sativas. If you ever grown a pure indica. You would know even under 4 1k's the buds only get so big. Thy stop growing taller once they reach a certain height. Sativas veg fast amd produce giamt colas but take 3 or 4 weeks longer to finish. In that time ill have anither batch ready ( perpetual ).
My quantums I paid $200 for 8 bulb and $380 for 16 bulb fixture. Plus bulbs. So around $950 total. I cover a 5x6.5.
Get that in that plant in the last pic....... What......? That does not make any sense. To.get in the pic. All I had to do was aim the camera and push the button.