LED Without LEDs -My First T5 Grow

hyroot

hyroot

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okthanks2 said:
I'm not trying to promote the Dr. Earth crap, but after transplanting my ladies out of the shit soil and into this crap they have actually started growing and I am thinking my T5 arrangement is kicking ass. I have one lady in an ebb and flow as well, so that means no shitty soil to deal with and she is starting to take off. Anyway, my bulb arrangement if anyone is interested is:
2 Fiji Purp, 2 UVL super actinic, 2 UVL red sun, 1 ati blue plus and 1 ZooMed Flora Sun. They really look like they do when under a 400w MH hortilux blue. One more week and they should be good enough to take some action shots and pose for me!
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Mine were like that in the first week with dr. earth.. After that everything went to shit..
 
pr0fesseur

pr0fesseur

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okthanks2 said:
I used to have GREAT success with Fox Farm Ocean Forest, up until they started the new plant out east. Now all the soil that people get in the central and eastern states is from out east and NOT northern california. Where are you from? If you say California then that is WHY you still have good success with the Fox Farm. No other reason.:o
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SUPERSOIL nuff said
PS stay on topic.
 
okthanks2

okthanks2

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Some info worth checking out. The idea of using T5's for "wavelength specific" grow ops has been around for some time. They kinda wander trying to find that correct wavelength especially in the Red spectrum. Take a look
https://www.gardenscure.com/420/lighting/89513-bulbs-comparison-tool.html
http://www.gardenscure.com/420/lighting-reference/103689-spectral-distributions-various-bulbs-6.html
https://www.gardenscure.com/420/lighting/89513-bulbs-comparison-tool.html
http://www.thcfarmer.com/forums/f47/grow-room-3x5-12936/index2.html
 
okthanks2

okthanks2

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This bulb seems to be the answer to the elusive Red 660nm, now finding one in the USA might be the next challenge!
Osram Fluora 77
 
okthanks2

okthanks2

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I don't understand why people have doubts about the Fiji Purple. I know that the specs remain elusive, although a few people in here have already verified that they work, including the guy who started this thread. I'm sure they have both red and blue in them, so I would say it is probably safe to assume that you could get by running only the Fiji Purple and some Red Suns. Only one way to find out!! We need more testers to eliminate bulb options. I have already purchased about $700 worth of T5 bulbs!!!!! And I KNOW FOR SURE I won't be using them all.
 
hyroot

hyroot

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Well I chopped down the rest. They swelled up a lot. I will know how much I got total in a week. I think im going to end up with a pretty good yield aside from the other strains I chopped over a week ago. I think I will stick with the fiji's. Still might swap one for a redsun. Like I said before I have some girls under a 1k and some girls under the t5. They are the same age. The ones under th t5 have bigger buds. I have same strains under both lights. This time no deficiencies during veg. No bugs and I trimmed of lower growth and they ar 18 inches taller too. So I expect to have a much better yield this next round. I'll post some pics in a day or 2.

3 kz fiji purple, 3 uvl redsun, and 2 wave point coral waves
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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hyroot said:
Well I chopped down the rest. They swelled up a lot. I will know how much I got total in a week. I think im going to end up with a pretty good yield aside from the other strains I chopped over a week ago. I think I will stick with the fiji's. Still might swap one for a redsun. Like I said before I have some girls under a 1k and some girls under the t5. They are the same age. The ones under th t5 have bigger buds. I have same strains under both lights. This time no deficiencies during veg. No bugs and I trimmed of lower growth and they ar 18 inches taller too. So I expect to have a much better yield this next round. I'll post some pics in a day or 2.

3 kz fiji purple, 3 uvl redsun, and 2 wave point coral waves
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Lookin forward to your results. How many plants are you able to put under an 8 bulb fixture?
 
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Calrt

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okthanks2 said:
I don't understand why people have doubts about the Fiji Purple. I know that the specs remain elusive, although a few people in here have already verified that they work, including the guy who started this thread. I'm sure they have both red and blue in them, so I would say it is probably safe to assume that you could get by running only the Fiji Purple and some Red Suns. Only one way to find out!! We need more testers to eliminate bulb options. I have already purchased about $700 worth of T5 bulbs!!!!! And I KNOW FOR SURE I won't be using them all.
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I have nothing against them, just started mine in flower and I will let you know. But I were to start over I may go a different route with something known.....
 
Beagle

Beagle

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okthanks2 said:
I am running a couple Flora Suns, but they put out a lot of unusable light. The whole point of this thread was to try and find bulbs that only put out the usable wavelengths (or closest to that). The Flora Sun puts out a warm white color. I just purchased a few different ones to compare. ATI ProColor, Aqua Medic, Plant Grow, and Sylvania Gro-Lux T5 HO (from Germany). Needless to say, I am sure I will have quite a few bulbs left over after finding the ones that my plants like the best. LOL
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Have your Sylvania Gro-Lux bulbs arrived yet?
 
PetFlora

PetFlora

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Just a reminder that I started A journal (see my sig) where everyone can post learned information so others do not have to dig through 156 pages.

If you would rather I copied it into a thread just let me know
 
Undercover Cop

Undercover Cop

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organicbynature said:
It also seems unlikely to me that this would induce flowering, but it sounded like he (was it hyroot? I can't find it now) was speaking from experience. I'm not going to test it myself, because I have some Zoo Med Coral Suns (Super Actinics) that I got for $10 ea. I'd rather use those for veg than the Coral Waves.

I suspect any super actinic on the market would be a better veg bulb than the Coral Wave.

Will the Coral Waves put your veg plants into flower? Try it out and let us know your experience! :)
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I personally don't use the coral waves for veg, but I do use the blue wave 460 and reef wave420nm with 2 6500k's... Not much for far red wavelengths but some minor uva waves... I had two begin to flower under 22/2. I suspect one may have been an autoflower (tall skinny sativa dom) but the other is a squatty indica, both started to flower under 22/2... ??? I haven't seem it before. Thoughts? I'll edit this post later to add pics, or just check my journal (sig) I updated last nite.

Just ordered a 8x48 t5 and some more uvl red suns, and coral and reef waves :) ill be pushing 860w+ of PAR specific T5s :) good stuff!
 
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