How's it goin everybody? I recently got a new HO t5 for a really good deal and I don't understand why it's so hot when all I've read is how you can put them super close to your plants and they're amazing and aren't hot at all? But man I have better luck with my exhuast fan hooked up to my 1000w HPS that's got an air cooled 8" hood for my 4x4 flower tent than this thing. I just germed 10 Nirvana Northern Lights seeds and they went into soil in solo cups tonight and after setting everything up, about an hour later I went and checked on everything like usual to make sure everything was fine, temps and humidity were good, everything working properly, etc. but the temp was higher than I'm used to. Now it might be ok, it was 81 and humidity was 43%.... but I like it around 75 and 45%. So humidity was about perfect, but I don't know what's up with this t5??? I wonder if it's just that it covers literally my entire veg tent, and there's nowhere for the exhaust fan to pull out the hot stagnant air (yes I had to put the exhaust fan mounted at the top to try and remedy this heat issue when I didn't think it'd be a problem). But I have 2- 2' ho t5s with 4 bulbs that put out 8000 l a piece so I'm sitting at 16000 l for 8 sq. ft. So, I'm a little under what I tend to like for my veg numbers. I like to be at about 3500, sometimes closer to 4 for this bushy growth and tight spacing. It might be the tent, it might be the light, but I'm just looking for suggestions here so I can either fix the problem or upgrade to an MH for veg. And having never run a MH before and since I have the lumatek dimmable ballast that can run HPS/MH, should I just get a 1000w MH and run it at 600w in my veg tent? Would that be too much? Or should I just run it in my flowering tent and swap out the bulbs after veg and once I get paid here soon I can get a new, smaller t5 or preferebly a smaller MH setup/hood if they will give me bushier faster growth for my veg tent and just keep my clones and mothers in there since I'm about to start cloning and keeping mother plants. I'd like to keep a continuous crop coming in every few weeks so I'm gonna need another MH setup or a smaller t5 fixture... Sorry for the whole book I just need to figure this out like yesterday because I have them under insufficient light than want I want and I don't want stretching. So worst case scenario I'll run to my hydro store and get a MH bulb currently, or just get a new MH setup. Would 400 be plenty fora 4x2x5 tent and will that tent be adequate for a couple mothers and clones? Thanks in advance!!! Grow journal will be up after I remedy this and get everything rolling smoothly!!:icon_smile:
EDIT: I didn't really clarify but I took the 4 footer out and put the 2 2 footers side my side since they're 2x1 dimensions because it was just getting hotter and hotter the longer the light was on. When I finally said nope not doin' this is when it hit 84 and I didn't want to get any higher. That's why I say my lighting/space is inadequate. I need some assistance from MH veggers!!!! Thankssss!
EDIT: I didn't really clarify but I took the 4 footer out and put the 2 2 footers side my side since they're 2x1 dimensions because it was just getting hotter and hotter the longer the light was on. When I finally said nope not doin' this is when it hit 84 and I didn't want to get any higher. That's why I say my lighting/space is inadequate. I need some assistance from MH veggers!!!! Thankssss!