Day 49: Well this week I did a flush trying to lower media salts. Had between 2100-1550 ppm in run off, I am between 750 and 950 ppm now in my 5 plants. Still a bit high but didn’t want to get too low and F myself over the next 2-3 weeks. I totally over fed this round and stunted bad. I know I have 2 weeks here to hopefully fatten up a bit, but I’m not counting on any scale breaking harvest. I made a diffuser out of some old 95% reflective hood tin I had kicking around. It dropped the lumens under the arc tube about 30,000 and was able to keep the light at 750w and zip tied the light to the top bar of the tent. In the pictures you don’t see that yellow line under the arc tube.....just the destruction from before. It’ll be what it’ll be and learn for next time. And starting to plan for the next round so I can be better prepared.
Idk what kind of light you're using but you want 50cm for hid, 22cm for led , practically touching for cfl - lamp to plant distance , I'm like you though I do enjoy a bit of stretch early on, for sure you want to dial it in soon though !
@SAC87, nah you're actually golden maybe even too strong these first few weeks i would go 250 until week 3 then 400W until first completed week of bloom then 600 for a week or two then 1000 ... 1000W MH gonna give you FAT BUDS !
@CRiSPrGrow, thanks for the advice. I am running a 1000 w MH dimmed to 50%. I didn’t think I was getting enough light to all the plants in there with my little led and CFLs. Approximately how many lumens do you run in each stage??
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