drfting07 said:Thanks Hushpuppy!
Just measured my height. I have about a 7" buffer from the top of the cup to the light, before they start to touch the bulbs. I might be able to go 5-6 weeks
I am no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but if you look at my "stealth cabinets" grow journal at the last few pics, you can see huge difference in an experiment that I did with T5 versus Metal Halide. I have 4 different strains and I have them split so that I have 1 of each strain in each cabinet so that I could measure the effects on multiple strains. The T5s are 6500k and are putting out 40k lumens in a 10sqft area, while the MH had 2 250w in the same sqft and producing about 56k lumens. I haven't tried this with HPS and I haven't done this experiment in multiple ways to say it is empiracly proven. But in this test at least the T5s kept the plants stretch considerably shorter even after 1 week of flower schedule.Growdude said:7" would last me about 7 days not 5-6 weeks.
And IMO T5 will not vegg your plants shorter and tighter nodes than HID.
Hushpuppy said:I am no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but if you look at my "stealth cabinets" grow journal at the last few pics, you can see huge difference in an experiment that I did with T5 versus Metal Halide. I have 4 different strains and I have them split so that I have 1 of each strain in each cabinet so that I could measure the effects on multiple strains. The T5s are 6500k and are putting out 40k lumens in a 10sqft area, while the MH had 2 250w in the same sqft and producing about 56k lumens. I haven't tried this with HPS and I haven't done this experiment in multiple ways to say it is empiracly proven. But in this test at least the T5s kept the plants stretch considerably shorter even after 1 week of flower schedule.
Drifting: I think they will definitely get root bound in the cups but if you switch them at that point to the Half gallon containers, they may make it to 5-6weeks before getting root bound again. We did this successfully with the "micro-grow" challenge, so I feel like you can do it. It could get a little tricky, You just have to make sure they are cared for carefully and fed well.
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