T-5 Ho Cfl 48/help Me Plz!!

thanks for the input guys sorry i havnt been on Ive been kinda sick but can anyone tell me what kind of plants I got or strain??? ya and im having trouble figuring out how to flower I just bought a timer but... still when you guys are on a 12/12 scheduel what time do you set yours for so you can feed the plant and give it the attention it needs any idea's? and my closet gets to about 90º you think thats stunting the growth of my plants and god damn why do my plants need water like every day is it cause of the heat? thanks alot guys happy smokin

and ya this is my first grow

FilthyFletch said:

Each setup has 8 bulbs 4 blue and 4 red for enhanced spectrum.He uses them in his grow huts the 4 x 8 x 7 1/2 foot ones.He lines up 8 units is a row4 foot across with the mixed bulbs.Hers a nug from the T5s

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everyone ive heard talking about fluros said they give fluffy buds but tat nug looks pretty tight/dense to me man.
maybe they were talking about cfls only and not fluros.....
but would a bunch of 4ft fluro shoplights that hold 2 bulbs give buds like this?

I use my 4 foot t8 shop lights to veg alot but I use alot of them as I have many plants. The cfls will make fluffy buds unless you spend for the correct actual 200 watt cfls not equal to 200 watts but actual 200 watts they are about 18 inches long and about $75 each. It all depends on the amount of light you use and your grow techniques.With regular T8 shop lights the 4 footers with 2 tubes in each you can actually use them but you need alot .I did 4 plants before with 16 shop light ballast that 32 4 foot tubes.Was a soil grow vegged plants to 6-8 inches then went 12/12 and kept them trimmed back and concentrated on main cola tops.The buds werent fluffy but not as tight as hid lighting and you have to buy the correct bulbs for each stage.The nug I showed from the T5 is like a rock. The reason being is he is growing in the growhut tents with so mnay t5s and the tent whne set up properly has a negative pressure which makes planst very happy.The air flow and temps are exact. He owns his own hydro shop so has access to everything.He usually has 3-4 tents going and each setip is roughly $4500 complete.

You set the 12/12 to your schedule.If you know you will be able to tend to them each day at a certain time make that in the lights on time.I usually run several differnt grows and alternate them to keep power surges to a minimal but for a single grow I tend to use my lights on at 10 pm to 10 am.This gives me later at night when Im free to tend to them and helps keep heat down during the hottest parts of the day.90 is way to hot unless your using correct 1500 ppm of co2 during lights on.Make sure you have lots of fans going in there.They drink so much as they are toasting in there,Set up a cheap easy drip setup.A dripper in each pot hooked to a hose to a small 50 gph pump in a small res bucket have it come on a few times a day for 10 minutes and you wont have to water or feed just check and maintain.2 or 3 plant drip setup with pump is what maybe 20 bucks

even better yet, i got a 300gph bilge pump that runs on a 12 volt adapter last week ($10 @walmart) that i plan on hooking up to some misters if i can find some cheap ones @ lowes hardware tomorrow. im not sure how many that pump will sustain but im going to buy about 5 or so and just keep adding on to it until the mist is slowed down to an optimal/decent enough rate for total plant growth.

if it wont support enough mist for about 3-4 plants then im going to make it into a misting cloner instead.

KaliHustla said:

thanks for the input guys sorry i havnt been on Ive been kinda sick but can anyone tell me what kind of plants I got or strain??? ya and im having trouble figuring out how to flower I just bought a timer but... still when you guys are on a 12/12 scheduel what time do you set yours for so you can feed the plant and give it the attention it needs any idea's? and my closet gets to about 90º you think thats stunting the growth of my plants and god damn why do my plants need water like every day is it cause of the heat? thanks alot guys happy smokin

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set the timer so its best for you, you want yer lights on while your there to check and water and then dark while your away or sleeping or whatever, also get a fan, you may choose to go dark during the day to help reduce the heat, and yes high heat causes evaporation combined with root usage equals lots of water...good luck

Hey can anyone tell me what kind of plant's I have and I know I want to keep em dark during the day its just I have a girlfriend that goes in and out of that room non stop turnign lights on n shit and I heard once light reachs the plant it stop's growing or phot sythisis some crap like that and has to start over and I have my plants in a closet so if you think I closed the closet door's my baby's wont die from lack of air? I know my old ass wood closet door isnt air tight but I dont know lemme know and could someone PLEASE TELL ME OR AT LEAST A GOOD GUESS OF WHAT KIND OF PLANTS I GOT thanks alot guys ps and grow bud I stol you sig im sorry=(