I’m looking for suggestions on how to deal with plants that grow at varying speed/height. Currently I prop them up with pieces of 2x4 wood, or whatever else may fit (coolers, upside down pails/planters, etc.). The cost would be prohibitive, but it sure would be nice to see a product such as a piano stool that you could spin to raise/lower the height. I also tilt my DIY T5 array from tallest to shortest plant as per pic below
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That sounds like a good idea 
I’m too cheap so I just prop up plants or leave them be lol 
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I’m lazy, and laziness is the mother of invention… has to be a better way… (actually I’m not lazy, I’m full throttle most of the time, just don’t like redundancy) when I figure something out, or hear of a better mousetrap I’ll pass it on
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unfortunately this is your best option,
i use pots, shelving, 2x4’s, shoe box, rubbermade containers…
the T5 fixture looks good.!!
your shortest plants in fabric pots, size wise, look ready for 12/12,
the tall ones need trained and/or trimmed, they r too tall for T5 floro,
u want 12"-16" tall canopy when finished.!
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Thanks @SlowOldGuy . You’re right… many of the plants in the pic above should definitely be in Flowering but the previous flower room was a tiny 4 x 5’ space next to the water heater & furnace… so I’ve moved it into our unused basement 12 x 17’ rec room, framed a dividing wall to create an 12 x 11’ Flower room, and 12 x 6’ room for storage, seedlings, and cloning perhaps. Lighting is now my challenge, I don’t have the light coverage to add more plants to the Flowering room so they are just lounging around in the Veg Room and I’m hoping the T5’s will keep enough light to maintain their health until I rectify the situation (buy one or two new lights for the Flower room).
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cut em back, if u have time trimming is your friend.!
try not trim more then 10% at a time tho, massive trimmings can cause root rot,
give 2 or 3 days betwwen trimmings if u need to really knock one down,
i know about veg trimming, the mommas in the pic above r 12-16" tall.! lol
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I have used paint cans, boards, etc. you could always supercrop or just trim them back. Lots of options available to you.
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Okay thank you all it looks like we’re all doing pretty much the same thing just using random objects to adjust our height I just wasn’t sure if I was missing out on something that was designed to actually accommodate that maybe time to go to the invention whiteboard
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Very nice looking set up by the way very organized and clean I like it