Space vs light

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Thanks for thread - same om my mind. All my cfls are overhead (narrow space) and I'm seeing poor penitration past a few inches. My 2 plants are in 3L pots. (small space) 4weeks from sprout at a "full" 12 inches tall. Now filling out. At 2wks I topped them (rather sloppily I think) one sent 2 nice new branches, the other sent 3. then 3days ago I topped those. But every node for every lower leaf is sending a side branch shoot. But its only the "second-tier" that looks like its getting enough light. Im growing 2 plants in a 16x12x48tall with 6 cfl’s. Lately there is shading of the lower half of plants (they are 12inches tall & fill cab) I don’t think cfl has very good penetration to lower leaves. So what seems to be developing for me is that vigorous top layer (that I have topped 2x) and a second tier just under them looking fairly good, but leaves and branches lower down are showing stretch and grow slow I think from lack of light. I was thinking they are the older parts of the plant and some trim off before I flowering them. The closer to cfl’s the more enthusiastic the growth. I think its these top 2 “tiers” that will make good buds. There’s lots of opinion + & - about cfls but its what I can afford, and I don’t have setup or $ to deal with heat of hid. So I want to see what end production I can get. Main points for me are 1-stealth 2-odor control (when I flower plants) 3- any and all produce is a plus for me. For me I’m growing ‘on-the-cheap’ and cfls fit budget. ~Wasat
LL&PG – Live Long & Prosperous Gardening.

Stealth for me to. And my rando plant under my 4 tube does the same thing the top growth is always praying the light while the lower half is raping around filling all spaces around the stem to suck up what light it can so to fix this I got led lights be here soon . With led you can pretty much use them as close as u want and during flowering this will come in handy for lower parts

[tizzay]

It's best to use scrog I'd say

Yeah I seen a setup that used this but I have no idea how to do or even seen a grower use it. If the yield is not a very good return next grow will be a scrog or sog

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[M_C]

I checked out your diary earlier breakitdownrollitup - impressive results. I may even consider eating my own words

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My lemon kush diary? I didn't actually flower with t5s, I started to but my plants just weren't trained for it because I do agree about light penetration concerning t5s.

But there is a grower around here (maybe not anymore not sure) that has flowered under t5s multiple times and his bud was simply amazing.

All I'm saying is it works.

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Ah! My bad... time was against me as I was rushing to work - it was still a nice grow though

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This person I follow on instagram exclusively flowers under t5

[tizzay]

Yeah from what I have read it's possible but you have to work at it but once you get it down it's almost the same as all others. Just heard that sometimes the buds go loose and have a lighter smoke but same strength. I'll just have to wait n see the plants are small enough everything is still possible sides the random plant but that's not in tent and going into flower today. Just to get rid of it

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It's not hard, you just wanna use a scrog. Plants grow amazing under t5s.