My all T5 closet grow, 2nd grow

Well some bad news. The new light I just got just died on me all of a sudden. I am waiting for the seller to reply to my email about exchanging it for a new one. I also forgot to turn off one of the side lights in the closet last night so the plants had light until 430 AM so that just messed up my 12/12 lighting cycle, I hope I dont have any issues from that. Going to get that light on a timer so that does not happen again.

16 bulb quantum t-5. This is something I would definatly try

I seen the 12 light, but damn 16!

how old was the setup? I just rebuilt mine.

Got it a week ago. I am using 2 36" 4 bulb aquarium HO T5 fixtures they have a built in digital display/timer that failed on the new one so I can no longer turn it off and on since everything is controlled threw the display.
What about me leaving a 4 bulb 24" T5 HO light on for 6 1/2 hours longer than I should have on day 4 of 12/12??? I dont want to have hermis.

intenseneal said:

Got it a week ago. I am using 2 36" 4 bulb aquarium HO T5 fixtures they have a built in digital display/timer that failed on the new one so I can no longer turn it off and on since everything is controlled threw the display.
What about me leaving a 4 bulb 24" T5 HO light on for 6 1/2 hours longer than I should have on day 4 of 12/12??? I dont want to have hermis.

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one day won't heart a weed plant.

Ok cool thanks. Waiting to hear back from the seller on returning the light. They have always been great about it in the past but I need a replacement ASAP.

don't get one with a timer?

Why not? It makes life so much easier I can setup each bank of lights to turn off and on as I want them and the fixture only has one power cord not 1 per ballast like most others. The seller contacted me back and said they would send me a replacement display unit or just replace the whole light fixture. So I decided to just try the display unit first since I think that is all that is wrong with it. Should be getting sent in the mail for me today.
One a side note I helped a friend of mine cut down and trim 6 good sized New York Super Diesel plants and wow really good smelly plants, hands where super sticky by the time I was done. I have never seen that much high quality smoke in one place at one time. 2013 is going to be a good year.

Well the timer did not fix the light so I am having the seller ship me a replacement. On the plus side I have flowers now! Pics later.

intenseneal said:

Thanks. Watt for watt HO T5 is the best type of florescent lighting to use.

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Well, not really. I have 3 grows under 432w HOT5 using a mix of aquarium bulbs. Don't get me wrong, HOT5 (with the right bulbs) does a fine job, but leds have come a very long way. Here is a comparison of ~ 300w of HOT5 during flower) and ~ 80 led watts. Wile the HOT5 produced ~ 20% more weight, it was 3-4Xs more watts. What I like about HOT5 (mines 48") is the coverage for the money

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LED - ufo 90 1w R/B + supplemental one watt diode bulbs (5-7w per)

ChesusRice said:

16 bulb quantum t-5. This is something I would definatly try

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I have an 8 bulb BB. If I had known how unwieldy it is to change the bulbs in the middle, over growing plants, I would have gotten 2 @ 4 bulb

PetFlora said:

Well, not really. I have 3 grows under 432w HOT5 using a mix of aquarium bulbs. Don't get me wrong, HOT5 (with the right bulbs) does a fine job, but leds have come a very long way. Here is a comparison of ~ 300w of HOT5 during flower) and ~ 80 led watts. Wile the HOT5 produced ~ 20% more weight, it was 3-4Xs more watts. What I like about HOT5 (mines 48") is the coverage for the money

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LED - ufo 90 1w R/B + supplemental one watt diode bulbs (5-7w per)


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Please note that I said florescent lighting. LED is not florescent. Florescent lights use a gas that lights up different colors when excited by an electrical current. LED is a diode on a circuit board or chip that emits light thus LED there is no gas in a LED light. But yes LED lighting is becoming something to look at in replacement of a high watt high heat HID/HPS/MH and is lower in energy use that flourescents.

Rob0769 said:

Looks good. Very healthy. Think height may be an issue since they add another half of their size during flower? Or are you gonna train them down?

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And theyre fighting for light so theyre going to stretch, cut out all nitrogen almost and it might stop it.

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Yeah I have too many in the space only going to do 4 next time. All female clones. At the beginning of veg I had the light at least a foot away from the plants so that may have caused the to stretch some. I will be trying to train the plant on the next grow to better suit my setup. I did a large trimming a week before going into flower, cant really tell any more lol. The shortest HO T5 bulbs I have seen are the 24 watt 24 inch bulbs.

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they probably stretched because their fighting for light....

^^ Yeah in any case I have too many plants for the space I have. Only going to do 4 plants next time.

Finally got the light fixed so now I have all my lights running in the grow closet. Starting to get some nice flowers on the ladies.

Been a while since I updated this so here it is. Flowering started on 12-31-12 so on day 18 what do you think? How are my buds looking? I think they look pretty good for weeks 2-3. Getting frosty already.

Those are almost exactly the stage mine are on right now, Im using 15-30-15 day 14 True but yours look nice man good job!