Hey, I hope you cloned that 4" top you cut off. If not, hope you ate it ! LOL! Thats what I do if they're too sm to root, I eat a lot of pot! Probably the the only healthy thing I eat, grazing my garden!
-- Yea! Go T5's! Can't wait to get get over this flu & finish my cabinet! New 6tube 4' T5's & lots of cfl underlighting & side lighting. For now, they're under plain ole T8's + gro-lux side lighting. Awesome little fat sumo wrestlers, but I'm afraid if they get to big for this light to penetrate, they'll start stretching & get leggy. T5's give pretty good penetration as fluorescents go, so if your restricting size, sometimes hids can be a waste as the T5's will do just as well. So, seems like I've found someone to back me up when I find myself arguing this point! I really like them, enough that my hps just may stay in that box in attic! Since I do grow outdoors too, it doesn't make sense for me to grow BIG plants indoors.
-- If you're going to do any side/underlighting with cfls, try the reveal 20watt (75watt replacement). Awesome little warm lights. Use them in your home too. Great to read by. They're made to simulate sunlight, & they do great things for a plant in flower! On another forum, a couple of the guys have given up big plants & hids in favor of T5's on a sog. They all agreed T5's produced nice tight compact buds. Shovelhandle has a nice pic of a plant he flowered under them. Its one of his older posts & I can't find it, but maybe he'll jump in here & post it for you to see.
-- The reveals are 2500k with an output of 1200 lumens for the 20 watt.
catbuds Reviewed by catbuds on . Will 150w HPS outperform 372w of T5HO? Well, I'm going to Find out! Only really applies to me and my particular grow, but a worthy effort anyway. A couple day's ago I put two under the T5's, and two under the HPS. I think the HPS at 150w is about 18,000 Lumen?...and the T5's are pushing 35,000 Lumen. I will throw a couple pics up when the "wakeup" tonight, should be interesting anyway. Predictions? Rating: 5