LED Without LEDs -My First T5 Grow
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Had to share this. Photo on left is 3 days old. Photo on right is today. Before lights were 3 Fiji, 1 Red Sun and 4 Quantom red spectrum. Yesterday I added 1 more Red Sun, 1 UVL 454 and 1 Coral Wave. (Still have 1 Quantom in there as the 3rd Red Sun was DOA and a replacement is due next week).
Look how the plants have raised there arms toward the Coral Wave. Unbelievable.
pr0fesseur
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I grow with airpots.. check my photos,,,
pr0fesseur
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if you would have had some actinic in the mix your plants would not be so spindly.. great grow though! now add some red suns quick!View attachment 1804158View attachment 1804161View attachment 1804166View attachment 1804170View attachment 1804175View attachment 1804158View attachment 1804161View attachment 1804166View attachment 1804170View attachment 1804175here are some photos of 3rd week flower with 864 watts of T5 only using specialty lamps in the mix.
pr0fesseur
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soil can be more forgiving as my soil is just add water ... supersoil...!
pr0fesseur
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The plants really do respond well to actinics... i cant stress enough the importance of having them in your grow... red suns are great, but haing more actinic light really gets them going!
red suns are 633nm & roseates are 650nm [i already have 4- roseates- 2 top/2side] with 2- 6500k & 10- 3000k bloom lamps. --total of 16 54watt lamps. should i still add more red suns?
i have actinic 420 & 460 in the veg & the fan leaves were huge. should i replace the 2- 6500k or 2- of the bloom lamps with the actinic blues in the latter setup?
They are 6 weeks in soil as of today so they were 5 1/2 weeks when the photo on the left was taken. Photo on right taken 2 days later not 3 as I originally said. Photo on right was during the 1st full day of the added bulbs. They were added midday the day before the photo was taken. So - to be clear - day1 left photo taken, day2 new lights added midday, day3 right photo taken.
MurshDawg
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i have used them & they do a decent job..... look at these options too:
http://www.wave-point.com/images/LampMain2_enlarge.jpg
pr0fesseur
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Yes we have discussed these bulbs..
I have recommended the coral waves the reef waves are similar to the actinic plus..
There are better bulbs especially those with internal reflectors..like UVL Internal reflectors.
I have recommended the coral waves the reef waves are similar to the actinic plus..
There are better bulbs especially those with internal reflectors..like UVL Internal reflectors.
pr0fesseur
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I am not discounting other bulbs im sure they work just fine. (within the paramaters discussed in this forum)
Please feel free to buy the bulbs and experiment. But if i can get a similar bulb WITH an internal reflector.. thats always a bonus... more light directly to the plant remember reverse square law demands 50% of your light travels 1.5x the distance to the bulb... light must reflect then travel back through the glass and off the reflector thus diminishing the amount of light rec'd
In this Internal manner we can assume that 99.99% of light is emitted in the SAME direction thus gaining in efficiency..
Im just trying to achieve the best benefit/cost ratio
Please feel free to buy the bulbs and experiment. But if i can get a similar bulb WITH an internal reflector.. thats always a bonus... more light directly to the plant remember reverse square law demands 50% of your light travels 1.5x the distance to the bulb... light must reflect then travel back through the glass and off the reflector thus diminishing the amount of light rec'd
In this Internal manner we can assume that 99.99% of light is emitted in the SAME direction thus gaining in efficiency..
Im just trying to achieve the best benefit/cost ratio
As promised, from left to right, (1) Fiji (2) Red Sun (3) 454 (4) Red Sun (5) Fiji (6) Coral Wave (7) Red Sun (eight) Fiji. (If I put in the number eight I get the emoticon with the sunglasses).
This is for Flower/Bloom in a 12/12 grow. When I go back to Veg, #4 Red Sun will be replaced with a 75.25 and #6 Coral Wave will be replaced by a Super Actinic.
For 12/12 the Veg bulbs will stay until all the girls show their pistils, about 4-6 weeks, then I switch back to the Flower/Bloom bulbs.
Lucius Vorenus
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Any of you guys moved to T5 from HPS? If so what percentage of growth would you say you get compared to the HPS and how is the heat situation in comparison?
PetFlora
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I am reading a 12/12 from seed thread. Clearly it works, but wouldn't 10-14 days of veg first significantly improve yield? Also I am looking into getting some Air Pots. If doing a 12/12 or variant with APs, geez I would imagine getting 8-10 plants under an 8 bulb.