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Should I dim my TS1000? Ts1000

Tubington9
Tubington9started grow question 3 years ago
When using two lights in a small space should I be worried about to much light? The plant is mature and is about to transition to flower, I’m just curious what is too much if any. The TS 1000 is dimmable the sf1000d is not. Lights are 18” at the moment
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Slurpy_Terpy
Slurpy_Terpyanswered grow question 3 years ago
Usually with the led lights you use you would see red stems on the plants as a sign that they are getting a lot of light, possible followed by standard light burn symptoms (yellowing top leaves). Your plant seems to like the amount of light however seeing the size of your plant I am pretty sure the TS1000 at 40cm above the canopy and dimmed to 75% will provide a very good quantity of light for this plant. Right now it looks like there is a lot of light not hitting the plant (going next to the plant) which if fine but you end up spending more money on electricity than you need to. For the stretch and bud production weeks of flower (week 2-6/7 of flower approx) you can try to give full light with these two lights if your plant is big enough to fill your tent. During the last ripening weeks of flower you can reduce your lights again to avoid the plants trying to 'live forever' (this depends on the phenos but it is safer to reduce strong lights during ripening phase or the plants might start to shoot out new pistils and flower for longer...)
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Tubington9
Tubington9answered grow question 3 years ago
The plant has essentially doubled in size this week, which to me seems as though its enjoying the light. With this being a main-line grow, it seems it will work out well to have one light over 4 colas and the other light over the other 4
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gREEn7o0
gREEn7o0answered grow question 3 years ago
Honestly looking at what you got there you could run just one light. If the net/screen was full of foliage having both would be beneficial. As your plant is now you could have a single centered light and the leaves would be getting the same amount of light they are now. As for dimming, let your plant guide you. Some plants can suck up all the light you can give 'em, others not so much. There are general guidelines on how much light you need and at which point there is diminishing returns. A good write up can be found here https://420expertguide.com/resource/grow-light-par-ppf-ppfd-values-decoded/ Keep an eye on your plant and look for signs of stress, if she looks happy, she probably is.
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Ezzjaybruh
Ezzjaybruhanswered grow question 3 years ago
Honestly if you’re just keeping that one plant in there, get rid of the SF and just run the Mars light.. at least that’s what I’d do.. maybe bring it back if the canopy gets big enough later on
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Ezzjaybruh
Ezzjaybruhanswered grow question 3 years ago
Some ppl claim spectrum is hindered when you dim these lights. I always recommend this app called Photone - follow instructions and it gives you a read out for PPFD. It’s but we’ll worth it. You don’t wanna be much above 1000 umols PPFD at the canopy. 1100 to 1200 isn’t a big deal but pushing that is too much. You’re has basically guessing without a PAR meter..
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ThinLizzy
ThinLizzyanswered grow question 3 years ago
You can have too much light in a small space. The good thing is you can dim one. You can always raise the other you don't have to have the lights at the same height.
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