Thanks for the comments Aberation!
My temps have been 68day-53night which is a bit chilly. I have my grow tent out in the garage, so the temps are definitely lower than optimal at night when the lights are off. I've been trying to think of a verrry cheap solution to keep the temps a bit warmer. I even tried filling some jugs with hot water and placing them in the tent but they lose heat too quickly to really be effective for the whole night.
No prob. I don't know what your light schedule is relative to the 'real-world' day, but if you run the bloom lights at night it should help keep them a tad warmer when they need it most, and the temp fluctuations will be less. Of course there may be other reasons to use a different schedule. If the cops are breaking the law and using infrared cameras to find the 'hot' houses, then you are more easily spotted with lights on at night.
I'm a legit med grower, so I run mine at night. It reduces the amount of AC I need to run in the summer and the amount of heater I need to run in the winter. It also means they turn them on shortly after I get home from work (long commute) and turn off at the same time I'm leaving for work in the morning. This maximizes the lights-on time while I am home.
These are the thoughts that keep me from going to sleep some nights - once I get to thinking about things like this it can get hard to shut it off.
Also, during my grow, if you have any lavender pics you want to post as a comparison, please do so..I'd love to see them!
I hope I understand correctly that you mean for me to post my pics for comparison here and not in my thread. If that's not the case, let me know. But even with permission it feels weird to take up real estate in someone else's journal with my pictures, you know? So I'll keep it brief (at least as brief as a stoner can manage,
) and the small pics here are linked to 1024x680 versions for a closer look.
I'll just throw some pics of the three biggest Lavenders I have. One of these will go into bloom as soon as it is big enough, one will be sacrificed to the cloner, and one will likely be given away just as she is big enough to be bloomed. There's a profile shot where you can see they are only about 4" tall. There's an overhead. There's a closer overhead of L3, and then a shot to see the tight internodal spacing, in that order: