No flowering with T5 lighting..?

[orchidjunky]

Hi all,

I recently stopped by a hydroponics store today just to browse at the lights they might have. To make a long story short the person who helped me kept insisting that I would not get any sort of flowering with T5 lighting and kept trying to direct me to buy a 150w sun system grow light. He told me that T5s are only good for vegetative growth.

Now I don't doubt that the light he was directing me to would work well for flowering but I know that many have had much success with T5s and so I would like to hear what you guys have been able to get to flower.

I have only been using T5s for about a month and so far my plants look good. I even got a Paph to send up a flower (though I don't know if it's because of the lights or because it was already a well established plant... had it for less than a month under the T5).