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And I'm honestly wanting them to have all the light they can get so they be plump and juicy buds
Let's Attempt A 1lb Grow!
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But anyways we are entering 7th week of flower from the day I flipped
a quick calculation shows you have enough exhaust to do up to an 8 x 8 x 8 space. if it's not removing the odour now, increasing it probably won't either.
edit : where are you dumping the exhaust ? if it's left indoor the odour will accumulate over time no matter what you do.
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As of right now there ain't no smell I got charcoal filter it handles all smell I was just curious about putting the intake to help cool down a little bit My exhaust is going straight out the window by my air conditioner
What are the high temps in there? I don't see heat issues, only light issues and only since you bought the second light. Fans don't help with light burn.
Turn off the UV and far red and measure the lux with the calibrated Photon app at the top leaves that are curling.
That's a fool's errand. There's no advantage to burning the buds for the last week(s).
Turn off the UV and far red and measure the lux with the calibrated Photon app at the top leaves that are curling.
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Believe me brother I turned off that UV and the far red a long time ago. Like I said both of them's been sitting at only 50%. I will put the meter on it tonight I guess they probably ain't getting better about 20,000 lux right now as opposed to him getting 50,000 is what they was getting
My 23w CFL puts out 20,000 lux at 4"! See what the meter says, and measure at 5 or 6 different spots across the whole tent.
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I ain't trying to burn them up for nothing I just don't want them to miss out on any extra light that they might need
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How much lux would you recommend because I would have to lower the light to get anything more with them at 50% because apparently 100% is too much for her pretty little ass
I want to know what they're getting at 50% and 100% first. 
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You got it and remember the highest I can race the light is 16 in cuz they got so damn big. I will tell you what they're getting at 16 in at 100% and at 50% when the light comes on tonight I can lower but cannot raiseI want to know what they're getting at 50% and 100% first.
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Plus I got me some gorilla duct tape today that I'm going to slap on his motherfucker we're all where I see all the light hoes. I know there's one that I can clearly see The front where the zipper and shit is were some light come through I ain't really got to bother with that because I got something covering all that that sets in front of it but wherever I see light will get taped. So I don't know what hermeed my plant but she ain't been doing it again since I dropped the light to 50% and she's gotten more stigmas on her I'm talking about broken ass by the way nothing really wrong with the other just those leaves.
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I find it hard to figure out how much lux they need at each point. Especially having LED lights like this that you can't dim from zero to a hundred like I could with that other 110 wat. Now that one I can dim from 0 to 100. But like I said it's only 110 Watts half of what's in there. I've been using it for my clones which my God has taken off they are so ready to go in that damn flower tent. And out of that box that I got them in. It's been staying at 25% light. I keep it lowest possible for slower growth so that way they'll wait getting bigger until pop them in the tent but I guess that don't matter figuring I'm going to do scrog I'll be cutting some off of it anyways but still I don't want them to go bushwhack in there. Especially shed My God his growth is uncanny!!!! And now Bill and regrowth is taking off. I have to split them two apart before the roots intertwine.... And now the double O's are showing light green growth they're starting to pop off as well. Damn I really need to save up for that one bar light $269 really ain't that much I will have that before flower time. And then I ain't got to worry about shit like this One each week I will raise like 10% until full blast it flower and keeping the light at 16 in from them. I know exactly how to plan it out with these two lights I can't do that and I got tarter raising up raising down raising up raising down that shit gets tiresome bro. Especially with the hours I've been putting in at work
Cheap black electrical tape will do the job and save a ton of cash!
In terms of lights with stupid dimmers, the only other option is raising and lowering the light. Not ideal but it's the best you can do.
@bluter do you know if you can add a correctly rated in-line dimmer on LED lights?
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Trust me shed I done looked in and done research on that shit everything I found I got to take my fucking LED drive apart and rewire it and I'm going through all that I'll just wait for another light and work with what I got like you said raise it up and raise it down I bought some new hooks so there's no problems with raising it up and down before I was only using strings That's all I had.
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I would be afraid that I would mess up the wiring inside it when I did that and then catch a fire while I'm asleep or whatever you know what I mean I just fearful of it and rather not fuck with that. Because the only dimmer that I can find is for strip lights although it does work for up to 340 watts but I don't want my whole damn tent to burn up.
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But I'm still debating on my intake and outtake should I hook a fan up for my intake or just leave two flaps open on my tent. I don't know which would be best for flower and with some of the hoes I'd be seeing all the tent I'm afraid if I got intake it's going to put some air outside the holes and I still get smell in my room. Like I said man this bud is really really strong I mean hell it was strong and early veg. Lmao I mean don't get me wrong My uncle's they both smoke pot but still I don't want my room smelling like that. I do smoke all bud outside out of respect cuz one Uncle quit smoking pot cuz of his lungs but the other one talks up all day everyday hillbilly motherfucker
Much easier to keep light from coming in through a single intake fan then the open vents. VetSmoke85 even got a tent full of hermies from (he believes) light coming in through the vent in flower.
18 to 24 is going to be easier on the plants. i generally don't run by lux, but i'd be running at about 75% capacity at the 16 mark, or about 275 - 300w on the rig.
i answered in the other thread. it would be dependent on the driver itself. a majority of drivers now come with a dimming capacity, whether it's been added or not is up to mfgr.
an inline dimmer only controls voltage from the wall, which either will not work at all, or create a fire hazard. the dimming has to be wired direct into the driver itself, not something external.