Who's working with T5s

[doco]

Ya, I have the lights on all at the same time, both top & bottom. My cab is 6' h x 3' w x 1.5' d and I gave about 48" to the lower section for the mothers and the top 24" to cloning and early vegging up above. The side lights are T8's 17w ea 6500K.

Here is a link to the building of it: http://boards.cannabis.com/closet-ca...g-cabinet.html

There's no heat problem yet but its winter in so-cal and I have the lights on at night with the windows cracked a few inches. I live just a few blocks from the beach so I have kind of a buffer...its warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer here than it is inland even just a couple miles.

I've only been using this setup since mid December so my experience with how big they can get is limited but I topped the Kush bush you see there and I'm LSTing the small Jedi mother next to it. I still have plenty of room for them to grow more and I'll just keep pruning them.

I think you have plenty of room to have a cloning section in that cab of yours depending on the strains you choose to grow out.

Good luck & happy growing

[harris7]

Something Iâ??ve found with my T5 is that I always get lower leaf discoloration.

I donâ??t know why, It might be because the plant grows so fast under that light that I just donâ??t feed it enough.

Iâ??ll attach some pics. IT happens to all the plants, and stops once I put them under my MH

But check out the Axial growth on these guys, thats what the T5 does best.

it's best if you can get really small clones or seedlings under it, they just become little bushes. Sometimes the side shoots grow as fast as the terminal bud. it's great

[stinkyattic]

I use a 24-inch, 5 light New Wave T5 fixture for my seedling area. It's one of the best investments I made, the other 2 being my HPS1000 and a set of commercial-grade adjustable wire racks to stack my veg room insted of having it all over the floor.

[JunkYard]

I ordered my T5's this morning "wOOt"

[Shovelhandle]

I picked up an unused (brand new) 4 lamp T54HO troffer w/lamps for $40. Ebay

Shov

[harris7]

I picked up an unused (brand new) 4 lamp T54HO troffer w/lamps for $40. Ebay

Shov

thats a steal. I paid 140$ for my 24 inch 4 bulb 100W lamp

[hewhispers]

harris7

Ive read that such yellowing occurs because plants use more nutrients than you can supply. This happens more with soil, less with hydro.

Hope this helps.

[harris7]

i really dont worry about it too much. The bottom leafs dont do that much. They're far from the light and are shaded by the canopy. So it's not much of a loss, i've had some yellowing on all my plants and they grow up to be happy bud bearing plants. So w/e

[Uncle E]

I am about to buy a 4ft 4 tube t5 H.O. for clone / veg, but was wondering if these suckers are any good for flowering using the S.O.G. method. The space would be inches bigger then the unit itself with mylar sides and lights close to tops. I am on my first grow in my new apt. closet and heat is my biggest concern with my hps setup I have now. I was just wondering if it is worthwhile using t5 H.O. 3000k or just stick with 'ol school hps. Good priced units here High Tech Garden Supply

[trynagethigh]

look at this, its cheap too for 10000 lumens

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