16 tubes for 16 plants

[tevfik]

Fluorescent power will turn to Flower Power :hippy:

[Darkone7]

Just finishing the second week of flower.
The strain i have been running for the last few shows stretched like crazy again compared to the other new strains.

It does appear that the stretching has leveled out now,so this should be the last time I need to raise the lights .
So the front light in my cab is now about 6 inches higher than the rear rack to compensate for the plant height differences.
My two fans are having a harder time keeping the heat from 16 tubes down.These T-5 floros run anything but cool.

Next watering I will give them the second shot of PB bloom.Each three gallon pot is still sucking up about three cups of water every three days.
Temps in the cab run between 75-80f depending on ambient air temps.

Thats it for this time,thanks for checkin it out.

[Lynhal]

The plants look happy and healthy. Nice job. :greenthumb:

[Darkone7]

The plants look happy and healthy. Nice job. :greenthumb:

Thanks bud,staying ahead of the game so far

[Darkone7]

Just finishing third week of flower.
All the girls were showing signs of deficiency as I had no proper Bloom food.
Local shop finally got some in.No PB this time so I am trying Flora-Nova.
I have mnaged two doses so far,and it is helping.

With some new strains in the mix,I can now see that my usuall strain is stretchy no matter what.They stand a good foot taller than the other strains.
So I now am running one rack a foot higher than the other.

Other than my original Bubba strain,I dont know what the other strains are.
I was mailed the seeds and they are only labeled "cc" "h" and "g".The CC is Cotton Candy...the other two I have no clue.Whatever the "H" is though ,it produces amazing flowers.The multi-colored hairs remind me of the old Berlin Strain I ran years ago.
Unfortunately with no seperate veg space all my crops are one shot deals,no cutting clones etc.
I may change that before next grow.

So thats it for the start of fourth week,1/2 way there!

[rattlingdags]

Gosh I must say I've fallen in love with the look of those reddy brown tops, very pretty. They all look great though, lush green and happy.

[Darkone7]

The girls are in thier fifth week now and fattening up very nicely!
I am quite surprised at how deep the T-5's are actually penetrating the canopy.Even midway and lower buds are gaining size at a great rate.

The girls got the second and last dose of bloom food.Still drawing about three cups of water per every two-three days.
This should start to drop off a bit now that I am in 5th week.
A couple of the really tall plants I have had to lay at an angel as the tops got a bit burnt by the lamps.
The T-5's are really not terribly efficient.For over 800 watt draw,the amount of lumens produced shows how much energy is being wasted as heat.

Even though the results look really good at this time,I will only be using the Badboys for veg from this point on.
The entire idea behind floro lighting was to keep resources down.However the T-5's do not do this,they use more juice for less light,
cannot be "air cooled" as effectively as HID and dont (to the eye) produce as "red" a spectrum as HID.
They do however give a nice big footprint so the usage is ideal for veg.

All in all the new digital ballasts for HID lights are far more power efficient and produce a better lumen output,
they will be my tool of choice for future grows.
I look forward to the end of this show,just to be able to drop this heavey power draw.
Thats it for this weeks update,thanks for checkin out my grow.

[tikiroom]

Looking great! :greenthumb:
Loving the red in some of those girls. Which strain is showing that red phenotype?

[khyberkitsune]

Ahh, seeing this makes me miss my old T5HO grow. Good stuff, loving the red phenos!

[Darkone7]

Looking great! :greenthumb:
Loving the red in some of those girls. Which strain is showing that red phenotype?

I really don't know bud.As I said in an earlier post the seeds were sent to me with just an alphabetical reference.The one with the spectacular colors is simply "H".
As these came to me through a string of different people,I have no way to trace them back.
Thanks for checking out my grow.