D Rocks T5 grow

[D Rock]

What kind of bud lights you got?

At the begining of my thread I told that I have red spectrum bulbs to put in place of the Blue spectrum ones that are in now. 6500k in now, will be switching to 3000k. I had a 1000 watt HPS but it got way to hot in there for them. This suites my needs much better than the HPS did.

[ncnavguy]

Awesome grow so far, D Rock, I have been watching it closely and have taken several of your practices to improve my own grow, I especially liked adding the water cups to the room to increase the realitive humidity. I have a really dry room and the cups helped. I also switch to 18/6 from my 24/0 schedule. Both changes have been to positive results. When are you planning to switch to flowering? I going to start at 6 weeks.

[D Rock]

Well I was going to wait till I Saw preflowers on the the plants before I put the red spectrum bulbs in and started flowering. I read in my grow bible by Jorge Cervantes that switching your plants to 12/12 before preflowers have been spotted greatly increases your chance of the plant being male or hermaphodite, So Im going to make sure they keep growing good and take car of them that way I will have more females than males or so Im hoping. Thanks for stopping in, Make sure to hang around and follow the grow Pics will be added frequently. As for the red cups they are gone and I have put two big bowls with about 1 1/2 gallons of water in them each they are behind the plants this time. See ya round the boards.

[D Rock]

Just a quick note. I lowered my lights back down closer to the tops of the plants. It is now at about 5-6 inches from the tops of the plants, reason being is that the lumens are greatly decreased the further your light is from the tops of your plants. Ecspecially with these Fluro's they just dont have the penatrating light that a HID does. Anyway We will see if they just start getting fat again. If so then thats just the way my plants are going to have to be. I have gotten my humidity up to 58% Relative Humidity from about 40-45% by putting the two big bowls of water instaed of those red cups with only a small amount of water in them.

[Shovelhandle]

unlike another grower, I put the t-5 54W inches from the tops of the plants right from the get go. Maybe that I have a four lamp fixture and his was an eight lamper may be all teh difference. dunno. But, the T-5 54W really can grow pot and produce decent bud. Not as good as HPS, but you don't have4 to fuss with ventilation and temerature nearly as much.

Sho

[D Rock]

Ok guys Im looking for some guidance here. I have been thinking about how to train my plants and popular methods like SOG, SCROG, and LST have come to mind. Out of these three Im thinking of doing a SCROG. Im thinking this will be the best for my conditions, Poor light penatration with the T5 lights. I guess what Im asking is exactly how do you scrog?
When do you put the screen or netting over the tops of your plants? DO I wait till they show sex first? I would imagine so, it would probably be a pain in the ass if they grew through the netting and I had to remove a couple due to them being males. Any guidance on this is greatly appreciated. I was contemplating Topping or FIM but I dont want to cut my plants just yet.

Thanks for any advice given.

[Penngrove]

Hi D Rock. My grow log dissappeared and all my posts. I guess I ticked someone off. They left my photo gallery which is odd. Anyway I guess that means get lost so I will wish you luck. My transplant went well, I love the soil, I appreciate all your advice. Penn... Here is my transplant. Had to add a little CoCo to top off a couple after settling.

[D Rock]

Are those the 3 gallon grow bags?

[D Rock]

Check out icmag.com I have a grow log over there too.

[Penngrove]

Ok thanks. I was pretty stoked about this board. No warning no nothing. I will check out your othersite. Here is one more of the transplant.