T5 Attic Grow (Easy Ryder)

OK. Seeds arrived today. 5 Female Lowryder 2 x AK47 (Easy Ryder)

I'm going to be assembling a "box" for these. Plan on using 3Gal pots but if I plant all 5 I think i'll settle on 2Gal. I'm going to germinate them tonight or tommorow, any recommended methods?

Any input/tips for the final construction of the box? I'm thinking 2x2x4 or 3x3x4. 4' high is my limit. Gonna hook up an exhaust fan and possibly a vinyl tube drileld through the dryawall into my room to Pull in cool air, we'll see how the temps are with the T5.

I have a lot of questions on T5. Would a T5 5 Bulb fixture be sufficent enough to grow this ammount? Anyone with experience in this area please feel free to help. Thanks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Wave-T5-2ft-4-Lamp-Fluorescent-Light-Fixture_W0QQitemZ220475336892QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item33555aa8bc&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Was looking at that set up, would that be good for 3-5 Plants in a box? Thanks

If you have the money to spend I'd go with a HPS Lighting System.. Bigger Yields..
I grow with CFLs..
I use 105w 2700k heres a pic.. You can get them from ExpressLightbulbs.com.. Pretty cheap - use coupon ProWebs for $5.00 off

Yes But Heat is an issue, I'm growing in a BOX, enclosed.. in a enclosed closet. HPS is not an option

hey just wondering how your grow is going. I am growing an easy ryder but it has yet to break the surface of the pot. its been6 days :S

do not use t5's u can use them for like the first 2 or 3 weeks of vegging after that its a waste they will not flower with those ... they will but trust me from experience your buds will suck and u will be very disapointed

SCWASCWA,

You are completely wrong.
T5 bulbs work just fine if used properly and will produce nice dense buds.

no buddy i have 12 of them with 2 plants and let me tell u CFL's will work better hps even better the t5 's will not give u a good yeild wat so ever go ahead and try it then come back so i can say i told ya so

I get great results with T5 bulbs with plenty of large, dense buds.

lets see some pictures then i doubt they compare to a cfl or especially a HPS

u could use t=5's like 8 of them for 1 plant but growing multiples no way wat so ever

Yea - you really know what you are talking about.

"i have a question for u led growers

i wanted to build a new grow box get a led light strand like christmas lights and line the inside of box with a shit ton of em... could this work??? "

angelsbandit said:

SCWASCWA,

You are completely wrong.
T5 bulbs work just fine if used properly and will produce nice dense buds.

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This is what I am doing this time around, and a very trusted source has told me the same thing: you can do T5 HO and get very good results, start to finish.

The problem I have encountered is HEAT. If you're going with T5's so that you won't have to deal with heat, think twice. I have to rebuild my previous exhaust system. I think I've killed off my whole first batch due to heat (that and not putt ing the plants close enough to the light).

Heat WILL be an issue.

If you can use a cooltube you can actually have less heat issues than with using with fluorescent. When I went from 400+w of fluorescentto a 250w hps, I both dropped my temps and increasced my yield.

Sorry. It might seem like I am following you from thread to thread. I'm not. These threads are just ones that I posted on earlier and hence are in my favorites or whatever they're called, Techno.

I'm just really curious as to why you would not have gone for an HPS at 400, since you were already using that amount of wattage, and the yield will certainly be more.

if I have to start over? Screw it. I'm going to either 600 or maybe 1000, and yes, I want a cool tube.

The grows I've done with a 400 were okay, but nothing like WOW!!!!

And you know? I want WOW!!!

I just refuse to buy from other people, and although my stash from last year and earlier this year have done me well, I want bigger yields per plants. I do almost exclusively autos (I'm not an experienced grower by any means, and I always have privacy and time restrictions on how long I can have a grow going). The one exception was some power skunk freebies from attitude that I grew last year. Good god, that was a great plant to grow. So frigging easy and forgiving, almost no odor, very good yield for a newbie with lots of heat problems. I just don't have the time to do those this time.

Sorry for the rant.

So anyway, why not a 400 or higher HID lamp, if you're using cool tubes? I'm just curious, that's all. Thanks.

Thought about it but was worried about heat. I'm getting about 7oz dry out of a harvest with my 270w which has been keeping me in enough weed. I'm going to build out a second flower cab and will either go with a 400w or possibly LED.

TechnoMage said:

Thought about it but was worried about heat. I'm getting about 7oz dry out of a harvest with my 270w which has been keeping me in enough weed. I'm going to build out a second flower cab and will either go with a 400w or possibly LED.

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Wait a second. Is that a typo? SEVEN ounces DRY from a 270 watt HPS? Are you sure about that? I don't see how you could produce that much with that light.

Surely a typo?

I have seen nothing, absolutely nothing, regarding LEDs that would make want to try that little experiment. No thanks. My T5 experiment was pretty expensive, got me nothing in the end, and I won't be doing any further experimenting! BTW, thank you for the info you posted on that other thread about the watts/lumens. Now I know that it's at least not ALL my fault that my plants did next to nothing after germinating.

I"m really curious, though. Surely, if people can grow basil and things like that with little, bitty T5s, why did my plants stop growing, or just about stop growing, after they germinated. I'm not kidding. These things never got any bigger than about three inches, and they are about five weeks old now. That's nuts. They should have done SOMETHING. COuld it be that I went with all flowering spectrum lights? The guy that sold me on it said with autos that would be the right way to go.

Or maybe the poor things were so stressed out becuase of the heat in there that they couldn't cope? That does not explain the third batch that is now about two weeks old and did next to nothing.

I don't know. Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

Again, thanks for the info. I'm not playing around with anything besides HID lamps anymore.

I like the T5's.. but it seems like there are alot of people on here dogging them out.. its crazy.. You have to make sure you use the right t5's.. get the 54watt HO, I have had good luck with them WITHOUT heat problems

Leilani Garden said:

Wait a second. Is that a typo? SEVEN ounces DRY from a 270 watt HPS? Are you sure about that? I don't see how you could produce that much with that light.

Surely a typo?

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Nope, not a typo. I just finished a harvest that had only two plants and I realized towards the end that I'd been using the same bulb for over 20 months (new bulb on order). I pulled off 5.5oz dry. I usually do three plants at a time in my cab with an average yield of a little over 2 oz dry/plant.

Three plants seems to be the perfect amount for my cab (36"w x 20"d). I've done as few as two (my last flower) and as many as six but the overall harvest stays roughly the same.

razoredge said:

I like the T5's.. but it seems like there are alot of people on here dogging them out.. its crazy.. You have to make sure you use the right t5's.. get the 54watt HO, I have had good luck with them WITHOUT heat problems

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I LOVE my compact T5's for vegging. I found this weird style (2G11 base) that I think is more common in Europe than the US. The great thing about them is that they put out almost as many lumens (4,800 vs 5,000) as a 48" T5 but are only 22" long.

I use three of them in my veg cab which is only 24"w x 15"d x 36"h. I had to build my own hood but it was worth it.