Will 150w HPS outperform 372w of T5HO?

Thanks chromophore, they are cool little plants. :) The "arms" are getting heavy, but because it's so short I haven't had to stake them. The Temps of the bulbs are (2) 4 foot 6500's and (4) 4 foot 2700's. The sidelight is (2) 6500K 2 foot 2 bulb. The yellowing occurred very early in flower with the T5's, (see my prior panic in this thread) but the HPS
girls just recently started with the same 12/12 date. Looks like I may have some "Milky" trichomes right now, (click on pics twice to enlarge) but a way's to go yet.
I'm hoping I'm done in a week, but I won't cut early. :thumbsup:
Just ordered a GREAT B-day present my better half, a Volcano vaporizer!! Sorry...not really relevant, but I'm excited about that. ;)
Have you got recent pics up Chromo?

I put up some bud pics last night but I'll put up more tonight once I have them staked. It's tough to get the whole grow room in the shot because they've swarmed in all directions. The patient I'm growing for uses a heat gun to vaporize, and personally I think she wastes a lot of medicine that way. She save the leftovers and I have sampled some and they are still quite potent, so she's only getting a fraction of the medicine off of them that way. I have heard very good things about the Volcano.

So the 150W HPS Versus is over as far as I'm concerned. I just ordered another T5HO fixture for that end of my cabinet. I am very satisfied with what my stumpies have done under the T5's and it is the best fit for me and my space. The buds are tight and heavy, no "airy" issues here. I suspect people who have those issues just don't have enough Watt's, I sure don't have that issue. :jointsmile:
It would appear the HPS buds have a a bit more Trichomes turning milky before the T5 one's. Interesting, but the size of the bud's is a "no contest" to the T5's.
I will keep them separate after harvest, more concerned on the quality than the quantity and want to see if there is any perceivable difference.....That will be a rough "study".
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I will get some (better) pics up before I wack 'em. Hopefully they will be done soon, I need their space! :)

Volcanoes- you guys will be walking around the house and yard with big bags of smoke! And lovin it!

Add more red spectrum. This is good timing, when they've finished plumping & started ripening. Too soon & the buds are looser. :)

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Originally Posted by catbuds

Add more red spectrum. This is good timing, when they've finished plumping & started ripening. Too soon & the buds are looser. :)

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I can do that! I can pull the (2) 6500k bulbs in my (6) bulb fixture and add (2) more 2700's easy enough. All red....will do tonight when they wakeup.
Should I shutoff the 2 foot 2 bulb T5 sidelight too? Both bulbs are 6500, I don't have any 2700's for that fixture...:(
Thanks mama. :jointsmile:

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Add more red spectrum. This is good timing, when they've finished plumping & started ripening. Too soon & the buds are looser.

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hmmm...I'm thinking maybe I should pop some red bulbs in my T5 rack I have in the flower room. I'm 50/50 red/blue at the moment. OMB and I are roughly at the same stage, so... Sorry, just thinking out loud. OMB I am definitely going to re-configure my flower room to be a combination HPS and T5. I can easily do it to give me just over 1000w total with the HPS directly overhead and the T5s angled in around the perimeter.

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Originally Posted by Chromophore

hmmm...I'm thinking maybe I should pop some red bulbs in my T5 rack I have in the flower room. I'm 50/50 red/blue at the moment. OMB and I are roughly at the same stage, so... Sorry, just thinking out loud. OMB I am definitely going to re-configure my flower room to be a combination HPS and T5. I can easily do it to give me just over 1000w total with the HPS directly overhead and the T5s angled in around the perimeter.

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I don't think you will be disappointed Chromo. I do think the combination of the two could be a winner. I feel in my case it was just not enough watts with the little HPS to be a fair comparison. I just can't deal with the heat from more wattage so the little HPS is done.
They do look just a little different though, just enough to make me ponder....

The T5's are seriously underestimated little gems! ;)

OMB this is a bit off topic but we keep coming back to this...of my 5 recent clones, only 1 survived. I threw out 4 of them today. The leaves showed some damping off so I pulled them out of the rockwool and the stems were soft and grey:( I think the place I had them was too cold. Also I didn't position a node properly so that it was down in the wool. Anyway, the point being that I'm going to take new ones today and I'm going to try your twig method. But while I'm on this topic, I'm curious what you and everyone else thinks about taking clones off of a flowering plant. Have you done it? Is there a trick to getting it to work?