One thing I never anticipated from my clever idea to put my blurple between my floor joists was how severely I was restricting the airflow to the heat sinks on the LEDs and how much the thing would heat up. I don't think I was in any danger of burning my house down fortunately but I don't think my LEDs will last long at that considerably higher temperature. D'oh!
So I resigned myself to the fact I have to super crop my Chemdawg plant. I did that and stuck it under my MegaLight with the Amnesia plant that is at eight weeks and one day I believe.
There is a close-up of the old gal and the young upstart together.
Here is a close-up of Amnesia. Pretty happy with her all around.
My leaves look a little rough in the photo above, not because of a nute problem but because this plant is so tall I got some leaf burn so I dropped the wattage down from 200 to about 175 W.
Now that I am budding two plants with my big light it would be really great if I can get more distance between it and my plants since they are so tall. As you can see in this photo I can't raise the light anymore because the shrouding they have covering the transformer is too wide to go between my floor joists.
I think I will remove it and that way I could raise it so the LEDs are right against the floor joists. That would give me 3 inches and my plants are on trays that take an additional almost 4 inches so I think I will make adjustments to claim that distance so I can raise my light to better accommodate these two plants almost 7 inches.
Always something to modify in the garden I find which is just fine during the shut down because with that and my brewing I am keeping pretty busy.