Purple and Cheese Autos

This was a tough mental week for me as a new grower. I was having issues all over the place. The burning got worse and all growth pretty much stopped. Literally no smell and no signs of frosty trichomes. The Purples fan leaves are totally yellow almost no green but its not burning like the cheese so my guess is lack of CalMeg. I lowered my PPM even more to around 740 hoping that would stop the burrning on the Cheese but unfortunately that didn't solve the problem and it got worse mid week. After a day of studying photosynthesis and how plants absorb light I came to the conclusion that my environment is way to hot. Now I dont own the house I'm living/growing in so I have some requirements I have to follow in order to grow. This made this week very tough on me and I was very close to giving up on growing. My setup prevents me from getting temps down below 28°C when my lights are on. So after more research and noticed that almost every grower on YouTube dims their lights. I realized that I may have been giving my plants to much light causing to much heat resulting in frying plants with no smell and little to no trichome development. So in the end I came to the decision to dim my lights. I dont have the new SF lights so I have to remove the drivers and use a screw driver to dim the lights which I did in previous weeks but didn't adjust the wattage. I first plugged the light into a power display socket and dimmed each light down to 125W for a total of 250W. This might be lower than the majority would suggest but I only have 2 plants right now and dont have the full 4x4 filled. Next grow I will adjust the lighting throughout each stage. I really wish I had the new SF with the dimmer switch. So the results were outstanding!! Within 2 days of dimming the lights and getting my temps bang on, things were showing huge improvements. No more signs of new bruning and the leaves were not as brittle. The smells were coming back and way stronger than ever before. Trichome development was showing and even a few branches on the Purple Kush were falling over. So happy things are turning around for the better.