LED Without LEDs -My First T5 Grow

pr0fesseur

pr0fesseur

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ohiogrown03 said:
these were what i brought back indoor from about 5 or 6 weeks ago, i transplanted one, and left the other in dirt. obviously the non transpanted one is doing better. Sorry for the awkard pics, i just the other day arranged this lighting, going to try it for a week or so and see how it goes, i did just have it about 2" away from tops.

when i brought them in they were starting to flower outside and about 8 inches tall with a total of 10-15 leaves a piece, really rough condition, got no attention but survived that long anyway. when i brought them in, i cut off the top buds and transplanted one to hydro. this is what they look like after about 5 weeks. the soil one is really a beast i think, it's bushy as hell, i trimmed up a few of the bottom stuff that was starting to grow, but i think i might wait another week or two and try to get some clones off of the soil one. i'm thinking maybe another month of veg for that one, what do you think? i'm building one of the bubble cloners and thats what i pan to put cutting in.
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Amazing job there glad to see everything working for you she looks great extremely healthy looking! keep everything coming along and please try to note any significant differences in your grow.
 
pr0fesseur

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PetFlora said:
My bulbs are here. MY BULBS ARE HERE!

It's truly amazing how different the green leafs appear.

Here' s a shot of BK-1 in early bud, prior to installing the new bulbs. so all can follow along as she fattens up. Hopefully, I can finally earn my UN on other sites- PhatNuggz


BK-1 now >50", but more importantly, loaded with side branches and bud sites. I hope the bloom bulbs slow her growth down as I can't raise the fixture any higher.

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The tiny bleaching on one leaf is burn. I try to keep the bulbs within 4" of the plant, but she has been growing so fast that within a few hours she can get within burn zone.

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you could bend her gently right where that piece of wood interects... just gently squeeze the stem all the way around ever so slightly and eventually shell lean over without breaking the stem, you just have to soften it up...then that main stem will grow buds from each node!
 
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Myles117 said:
bloom bulbs make plants stretch taller lol fuckin bend that main top to one side with some supercroppin or LST n she will explode from her side branches :lol:
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So you can you imagine how wild it is to watch this plant (gifted seeds from a brother of a commercial grower, don't have any clues about the pheno) grow like a mofo under Grow bulbs: Quantum Grow + 2 UVL Aqua Suns (total of 4 bulbs). When I flipped to 12/12, I added 2 Red Sun/Life, but one went belly up (total of 6 bulbs), so I replaced the Aqua Suns and one bad Red Life with Quantum Blooms , which suck, but it's what I had , and still she grew 2"+ /day (total 8 bulbs). Keep in mind I placed my bulb order 3 weeks ago, and still wound up not getting the UVL with reflectors.

Haven't been in to see her this morning, but bending is inevitable.
 
hyroot

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Prof.. I came up on 2 coral waves. For free. I have a 6 bulb hydrofarm in my veg with basic 6500 bulbs. Do you think the waves would be good to use for adding red? Even though its more infrared red. They stretch a lot more under that t5 rather than when I vegged under a 400 hps. They r were real bushy under that light. I want to add red to stop the stretching in veg.
 
AltarNation

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Tyler123 said:
What has happened to this thread? So are we getting good results with our T5s? Really results is what we want or should want.
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Seems like lots of people are getting good results. Not a lot of photo evidence, but a lot of word of mouth going, and a few pics to boot. I'm a newb so I have nothing to compare to, but mine are growing great. I was waiting for significant flower development before pics, which has definitely started to occur now! I'll take some next watering.
 
pr0fesseur

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AltarNation said:
Seems like lots of people are getting good results. Not a lot of photo evidence, but a lot of word of mouth going, and a few pics to boot. I'm a newb so I have nothing to compare to, but mine are growing great. I was waiting for significant flower development before pics, which has definitely started to occur now! I'll take some next watering.
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Pics will start coming in.. we have seen PLENTY of results from petflora and DWC... no one is in late flower yet and thats when we will see actual documentation week by week
 
AltarNation

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Here's 18 days into flower... I call them Beginner's Lucky 7... my first time, lucked out and got seven out of seven ladies from bagseed... this is T5 with a mix of the bulbs recommended so far. I could have gone farther towards red, but didn't want to spend any more. Maybe next time. In the mean time, how does this look for 18 days into flower?

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pr0fesseur

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AltarNation said:
Here's 18 days into flower... I call them Beginner's Lucky 7... my first time, lucked out and got seven out of seven ladies from bagseed... this is T5 with a mix of the bulbs recommended so far. I could have gone farther towards red, but didn't want to spend any more. Maybe next time. In the mean time, how does this look for 18 days into flower?

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I dont know EVERYONE what do YOU think? lets hear some thought other than my own for once
BTW beautiful ladies ! ;) those plants have such VIGOR! and life no drooping and very little thinning.. looks like no HID grow ive seen...
 
AltarNation

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Thanks!

You're looking at:

Fiji Purp
Super Actinic
Coral Wave
Red Life

On the other side I have a 75/25 in place of the super actinic... I rotate all plants from side to side each watering to keep even exposure and make up for the stupid gap in the middle of my fixture...
 
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pr0fesseur said:
I dont know EVERYONE what do YOU think? lets hear some thought other than my own for once
BTW beautiful ladies ! ;) those plants have such VIGOR! and life no drooping and very little thinning.. looks like no HID grow ive seen...
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Thanks Pr0f, I think they look damn good my self but I wanted to be unbiased about my post, lol.

I feel really good about the whole thing... I've been diligent and careful each step of the way, and I trained them thoroughly early on so as to get a good canopy going. I had a couple heads ahead of the pack, but I went ahead and bent them right over and they are recovering nicely at an even height with the rest of the canopy.

I have a leaf that is larger than my hand that I took off the bottom of one of my LST'd ladies. In fact let me get a shot of this...
 
pr0fesseur

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Your doing well.. and your bulb seletion is good you have a great spectrum going.. amd those ladies are doing SUPER for a beginner.!
My first crop ended miserably! with so many issues i started from scratch growing with what commoon sense and a little forethought told me to do..
i should open my own store....
something to think about.
 
pr0fesseur

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UnderCurrentDWC said:


Looks great AlterNation!

Oh... your the one who bought up all the blues!!!!! J/K =P
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your ladies are also coming along and thanks for the plug in your video! it jsut goes to show that theres more to growing than just "you hvae to grow it this way or it wont work" mentality







r MR Footclan being a douche, love you man i really do... but a STOCK nissan beat a STOCK ferrari :P

11 cars and a nissan won suck it
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