yea.....im leaning towards straight HID.
dont you need more lumens in your flower room than in your veg room tho? i think i read somewhere about that.( i.e. 20,000 lumens for veg. and 50,000 for flower)
maybe it has to do with simulating nature more...higher sun intensity in summer and early fall when a plant would start flowering...

i have a 400 watt HPS with a switchable ballast already. so i could make that a MH and could get a 600 watt HPS for flower.

but then im back to the energy usage.
im definatley not trying to have a crazy electric bill...

hmmm...must smoke....more on this later im sure
hanayama Reviewed by hanayama on . MH or T5??? so heres what i got...... im a few days away from my first harvest. after that i have to stop growing because i am moving. however, once i move im going to immediately start growing again. i vegged with a dick ton of CFL's and flowered with a 400 watt HPS. i just recently read somewhere that those CFL's loose their luminosity after a month or two...so that sucks. those are out so in my new set up im planning on having 2 rooms, 1 veg 1 flower. each maybe 3x3 or 4x4 at best Rating: 5