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Plantmax
4 Ft (54W 6500K) T5Vegetative Stage Grow Light (Blue/Grow)
The Plantmax 6500K 54W 4ft florescent light tube is great for your indoor vegetation of plants and supplemental greenhouse
lighting.
These high quality T5 high output lamps are excellent for all indoor gardening
applications. Use the color of your choice for the growth phase of your plants.
Mix & match for a full spectrum effect.
For years indoor gardening has been looking for a substitution to expensive HID
and MH lighting systems. They are cumbersome, expensive, ugly and create an
excessive amount of heat for viable indoor horticulture.
Up until now, if you wanted to grow a robust garden indoors you had to use either
a Metal Halide or High Pressure Sodium. With the introduction of the T5 bulb to
the indoor gardening market there is now an alternative. The spectrums of the 3000K
and 6500K T5 lights are optimal for plant growth. The 6500K bulb is great for
vegetative growth, and is comparable to a Metal Halide. The 3000K is what you
might think of as a bloom/red bulb and is comparable to a High Pressure Sodium
Bulb.
Another great feature is that you can stagger them one Bloom bulb then one Grow
bulb to get the greater range in spectrum. You might think that you are going
to lose lumens by switching to T5's but if you do the math, taking into
consideration that your lumens are reduced by half for every foot that you are
away from the canopy. A 4ft (8) tube T5 set up has just slightly more usable
lumens to a 1000W HPS system because the HPS must be at least a couple feet
from your plants while under the new T5s, your plants leaves can nearly rest
against the T5 bulbs without drying or burning .
There is one down side to these beauties that needs to be mentioned. You will
not get the light penetration that you would from an HPS. The way to solve this
is to scrog your plants, making the canopy flat and level using some trellis
netting. We will be putting out an article on this in our next newsletter, so
make sure that you sign up to see the step by step on how to move your indoor
garden into the future. |
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