ohiogrown03
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While I will say that it is a little strange that pr0f hasn't shown or even gone into much detail at all about a harvest and keeps stating it's not about yield, just a test, etc. He never stated that you or anyone else should invest large amounts of money into testing/experimenting unless you have the time and money to spend on it. I personally went with the t5 and a mixture of bulbs in this thread due to the time i found the thread was the time I was starting some new plants so it was perfect for vegging my plants and didn't need to add any inline fans or duct work for cooling the lights(i knew i'd be moving in a couple/few months and didn't want to invest money into a room only to tear it down in a couple months). This was a major factor in my choice to try it out. I did like the results in the tight spacing of the nodes. I also used the 8 lamp fixture in conjunction with a 400 hps during flower with the t5 as side/angled lighting. While I am no scientist or botanist I do have common sense and have had many successful outdoor vegetable gardens and a handful of friends who have been growing with hps/mh for years and did comment that they were VERY suprised/impressed of the quality of the plant before I even added the 400hps. So there is something to the bulbs, but until we can get the intensity of the HID lights i think it won't make a huge difference in smaller plants, but larger/bushier plants would probably suffer a bit from the lack of intensity unless you had way, WAY more money invested in several, 5+, t5 fixtures and bulbs arranged in a pentagon type shape around the plant and above or something like that.
pr0f i do appreciate this thread and have had good results so far, i've actually removed the 400 hps because i didn't notice much of a difference between having it on and having it off. Like i said before i mainly added the 400 hps during flower to make sure it worked reliable for a month. I do still plan on getting a 600 or 1000 watt hps for flowering to compare the results to what i got with the t5 this time, and just because my gut feeling is that a combination of two, t5 and hps, will give ME what I am looking for.
bottom line, don't blame OP for telling you to try this or "help" him test it out. He was just trying to show that there are other options that could be as viable if not more viable than the current way of doing things. If something is working for you and has been for a while, there aren't too many people who will dump money/time/effort into trying to find a new/better way of accomplishing the same goal. I think this is more of the track that this thread was started in, a lets see what happens when we try this, because going by the papers/numbers this looks like it could potentially save us a bit of money on cooling lights, less amps on the fixtures, etc. just my 35 cents.
pr0f i do appreciate this thread and have had good results so far, i've actually removed the 400 hps because i didn't notice much of a difference between having it on and having it off. Like i said before i mainly added the 400 hps during flower to make sure it worked reliable for a month. I do still plan on getting a 600 or 1000 watt hps for flowering to compare the results to what i got with the t5 this time, and just because my gut feeling is that a combination of two, t5 and hps, will give ME what I am looking for.
bottom line, don't blame OP for telling you to try this or "help" him test it out. He was just trying to show that there are other options that could be as viable if not more viable than the current way of doing things. If something is working for you and has been for a while, there aren't too many people who will dump money/time/effort into trying to find a new/better way of accomplishing the same goal. I think this is more of the track that this thread was started in, a lets see what happens when we try this, because going by the papers/numbers this looks like it could potentially save us a bit of money on cooling lights, less amps on the fixtures, etc. just my 35 cents.