Bought My First New Wave T5s

After a looooooot of research, I decided to go the midway route and get some New Wave 4 ft 4 bulb T5s. Not ready for the giant ballasts and HIDs yet. The heat was unbelievable. The spinning ones at the hydroponics store almost triggered a migraine too.

On the mention of a fellow Orchid Board member, I just bought my first set online at plantlightinghydroponics.com, which also close to the best price. So far the vendor's been fantastic. I immediately got receipt of my order, then an hour later, received the order-shipped notification along with UPS tracking. Update on Tuesday.

If this works out, 4 more sets getting bought.  All in time for my orchids, the boarding people planning for mid-September ships.  I really miss my plants!

The new 36" shelves got delivered today, just like the one in the pic a couple posts back. Going to buy two more 48" sets from Costco.

It's definitely going to be a challenge growing my orchids here, vs. California. Keep your eye on this space for my experiments on all this artificial lighting.