I'll try and describe my process and hopefully I dont forget anything. Starting from clone or seed makes no difference to me but I do use a Mother as I hate seeds
If seed start then germ in your perferred method. Ours is DAMP (not wet!!) papertowel folded to a square. insert seed. fold again and put inside ziplock baggie. Place baggie underneath DVD player on top of cable box. Check every 8-12 hours begining after the first 12 hours. When tap emerges from seed aprox 1/4 inch or so insert into a Rapid Rooter that had been soaking in PH balanced water. Now here is the funny part .. RR's float. So how do you soak them you ask?? They are like a sponge so hold underwater and sqeeze and release. rinse and repeat as many times as needed. Tap goes down btw. this is where the clones join in. Place your RR's on a tray inside a dome on top of heating mat (if needed) and place under 1 or 2 23w cfl daylight bulbs. Mist inside dome and gentle mist plants (for clones), then take a handtowel that your better half wont miss for a few weeks soak it and wring it out to where it is just damp. Fold or roll towel till about 2-3 inches wide and put inside tray and put dome on. The towel will keep moisture up so you wont have to foliar spray as much. When either the clones take root or seed sprouts take dome off and start to hand water the RR's. Put a small fan on to create air movement. Plants love air circulation and sprouts get stronger stems from this. Once large amounts of roots appear from RR transfer to buckets and let Floros take over for whatever I feel they need to do before flower.

Now 2 things about this ........
1) The run in my basement atm has had 3 weeks under the floros. This weekend a different grow ends so I can relocate 1 of my 400w Cooltubes downstairs to run with the twinn 600w. MH bulbs do not exsist for a 600w lamp. They would have to be conversion bulbs and I dont have the cash for that so this weekend the 400w goes downstairs in between the 600's. The 400w will be MH bulb and 600w's are HPS bulbs. They will get this lighting for atleast 2 weeks then off to flower with all HPS.

2) My final room(s) when done will allow me to root in the RR's like I do now but when transferred to buckets they will sit under t5's for entire veg period.

Yes you can veg under an HPS. Your entire grow can be done with nothing but your HPS bulb.
tinytoon Reviewed by tinytoon on . Lighting question I have been using 4FT. H.O. T5 bulbs, 54W 6400K bulbs for grow, and 54W 3000K bulbs for blooming. My question is, I have been trying to grow from seed in hydroponics, as soon as my seed pops and I get a root I put it in my set up under two 54W 6400K bulbs about 3 to 4 inches from the top of the net pot. Should I be putting my seedling under a regular T5 fluorescent bulbs for a week or so before switching to the 54W 6400K bulbs. Rating: 5