snakeman69er
New Member
ok, so ive been reading forums on many different sites, and ive learned a hell of alot!
But with this rapid influx of knowledge comes zero first hand experience...
i also have a learning disability and often struggle to understand, and use the knowledge properly
I've struggled hard with this endeavour and lost alot of seedlings with stupid mistakes.. bad soil, over watering, root bound plants... cutting off leaves and shoots....cfls in a rubbermaid
just about every mistake that can be made..ive made it (but i was gifted a few hundred seeds of top notch genetics so its not a big loss.. just time and hydro, and well, my pride too)
ive learned alot and overcome alot most of issues...
but one issue i dont understand is light hight... and theres ALOT of conflicting data!!
i know alot about lights... different types of grow lights.. par, lumens/lux, kelvins, wattage, "inverse square law"...
what i want to know is what hight to put my 600 watt light ( 3x3 tent) in early_mid veg
i know enough not to allow intense light to fry my plants... and i realize that in flower i want them as close as possible without exceeding usable light saturation and avoiding heat and light bleeching
ive read that most people start high with seedlings, and lower lights gradually over the course of a week or so to optimum lux/lumens (the gradual lowering allowing plants acclimate to light intensity)
ive also read that keeping your lights close will stunt overall plant hight, and you'll end up with like a much smaller plant with a shit ton of really closely spaced nodes that end up yielding alot less then a plant at optimum hight/node ratio
ive read that leaving my lights higher will encourage my plants to grow into the space and create a better canopy/hight ratio
can anyone help illuminate this issue for me?
But with this rapid influx of knowledge comes zero first hand experience...
i also have a learning disability and often struggle to understand, and use the knowledge properly
I've struggled hard with this endeavour and lost alot of seedlings with stupid mistakes.. bad soil, over watering, root bound plants... cutting off leaves and shoots....cfls in a rubbermaid
just about every mistake that can be made..ive made it (but i was gifted a few hundred seeds of top notch genetics so its not a big loss.. just time and hydro, and well, my pride too)
ive learned alot and overcome alot most of issues...
but one issue i dont understand is light hight... and theres ALOT of conflicting data!!
i know alot about lights... different types of grow lights.. par, lumens/lux, kelvins, wattage, "inverse square law"...
what i want to know is what hight to put my 600 watt light ( 3x3 tent) in early_mid veg
i know enough not to allow intense light to fry my plants... and i realize that in flower i want them as close as possible without exceeding usable light saturation and avoiding heat and light bleeching
ive read that most people start high with seedlings, and lower lights gradually over the course of a week or so to optimum lux/lumens (the gradual lowering allowing plants acclimate to light intensity)
ive also read that keeping your lights close will stunt overall plant hight, and you'll end up with like a much smaller plant with a shit ton of really closely spaced nodes that end up yielding alot less then a plant at optimum hight/node ratio
ive read that leaving my lights higher will encourage my plants to grow into the space and create a better canopy/hight ratio
can anyone help illuminate this issue for me?