cfl or t5 lights?

[night_gardner]

I was wondering what everyone thought of the cfl light compaired to the t5 vho lights. Wich one would be better??

 

[Moon Shadow]

I don't know and don't use them yet.

But I bet most people on this site will say CFL's

P.S.

Welcome to rollitup and please stick oround

 

[kieahtoka]

Cfls are smaller so they can't get more than maybe 2 plants but T5 lights can cover many plants so they'd be the better choice if you have the space.

 

[videoman40]

T-5's would make for a much more professional setup, and a uniform growth pattern.
Peace

 

[bwbig]

I'm running a t5 system and love it. (160 bucks, with four 4' tubes -- 20k lumens total 54watts per tube)

4' X 2' area for your plants rocks. So much space, and uniform light. Minimal stretching, and the plants stem seems to grow straight up as opposed to a lot of other pic's I see here to where the plants are almost growing sideways trying to find more CFL light.

My whole thing was, if I'm going to take the risk to grow this shit, I might as well do it 'right'... No mickey mouse shit for me. Do it right and do it once.

 

[beenthere donethat]

Well..you still may find yourself wanting to upgrade at some point to HID lighting, bwbig, but yeah..good move going t-5 over CFL.

I have 2 of the 4 lamp 4 fter's and one of the 8 lamp 4 ft models. (tek light)

I also have one of the 2 fts in the breeding cab...

definitely the nicest veg lights I've ever used.

good luck

bt dt

 

[UserFriendly]

Cfls are smaller so they can't get more than maybe 2 plants but T5 lights can cover many plants so they'd be the better choice if you have the space.

werd

T-5's would make for a much more professional setup, and a uniform growth pattern.
Peace

I'm running a t5 system and love it. (160 bucks, with four 4' tubes -- 20k lumens total 54watts per tube)

4' X 2' area for your plants rocks. So much space, and uniform light. Minimal stretching, and the plants stem seems to grow straight up as opposed to a lot of other pic's I see here to where the plants are almost growing sideways trying to find more CFL light.

My whole thing was, if I'm going to take the risk to grow this shit, I might as well do it 'right'... No mickey mouse shit for me. Do it right and do it once.

i love this guy.

 

[babygro]

I was wondering what everyone thought of the cfl light compaired to the t5 vho lights. Wich one would be better??

It's a hard question to answer because it depends entirely on how you intend on growing. If you want to grow out a couple of plants to full size, you're probably better of going with the cfls'. If however you want to try SOG (Sea of Green) growing which is basically growing out just rooted clones which keeps their height under about 18 inches, then the T5 VHO's would provide an interesting and probably more effective alternative to either CFL's or HID systems. VHO T5's come in an interesting variety of colour temperatures and the PURple variety probably has the highest PAR output of any fluorescent system.

When used correctly, both T5 VHO's and CFL's can produce very acceptable results. Which you choose depends entirely on how you intend growing.