Quote Originally Posted by shangeet
T5 is it okay...?

How Good Are They & Can I Use em For Flowering??
3000k (red) for flower,6500k(blue) for veg. Is it okay?

If i try a combination of hps and fluro's. 30-70 or 60-40 percent or something. would be reducing heat as well as electricty not using all hps. and on the other hand I will try getting some good flowering light from the hps supplemented with fluro's. Or, Please give a good kind of information. Help me pleaseā?¦
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Well, I haven't tried one yet but I would think you could bud with a T5 high output (HO) bulb setup. I've been reading about them, this might be another topic altogether but ... it turns out the 48" bulbs are actually quite a bit more efficient than the 24" bulbs (something along the order of 100 lumems per inch vs. 77). In other words, two 24" bulbs only produce about 77% of the the light of one 48" bulb.

So, I would think a "4x4" (four 48" HO bulbs) should give someone enuff umpph to flower with but I haven't tried it yet. I'm pretty sure others on here have. tons of great info in this forum, that is where I first learned about all this. good luck.