I think you will be happy with it. Make sure and check out some utube video's for "floro grows" and see what you come up with. T5, T8's florescents of any nature really, see what they have for videos. I start my plants at about 12" or so away from my lights and let them grow up over the next months or so right to the light. For whatever reason T5's pack on the nodes very densely, good for us. I get really bushy plants much more compact then when I vegged with HPS.

I think this will be a simple operation for you since you wont have near the heat problems. I would seriously consider hanging the lights vertically (you would need more then a few to do it right) if you can but either way works in the end. Just run straight 6500k bulbs for the first 4/5 weeks on the veg cycle. Then for flowering swap out the 65's for 2700k bulbs. I wouldn't worry about messing with the 5k bulb, that's really not for growing. Stick with just these two bulbs and I think you will be happy my friend.

Have you looked into using coco? I'm spreading the joyous message of coco these days. I love the stuff so much I asked it to marry me the other day. It said yes. We're getting married, the coco and I.
Prodaytrader Reviewed by Prodaytrader on . 96 watt Power Compact bulbs I wish I knew about these bulbs before I installed my T5ho's. I think these rate a bit higher then T5ho's even. For reference I'll show you an ebay listing for the ballast : ebay and next look at the bulb: bulb I think dollar for dollar and watt for watt these 96 watt cf bulbs can really put out the light. The ballasts look like they can be remotely installed to reduce heat, theses kinds of bulbs don't really even work that well with a reflector as I understand it, so really all you need Rating: 5