Seedsman Sponsored Grow: Peyote Wi-Fi By Beez

Reave said:
Daily light intake. The girls can only handle so much total light for the day. Once they receive that amount they do not want to do any more photosynthesis.

I noticed when running my QBs at 60 percent on an 18/6 schedule my plants looked excellent in the morning. Praying to the light, everything perfect. 4 hours or more before the end of the day cycle the plants would point their leaves down. This would be normal activity if it were almost lights out but not 4 hours before hand. I reduced the light percentage down until the plants would pray for all 18 hours.

I run 4 x QB 132 3500k (300watts) in my 4x3. During veg plants don’t need much light. I have the light at two To three feet and turned down to around 30%. So the plants are getting a decent amount of light for 18 hours. When we go to flower and reduce the schedule to 12 hours of light the plants now need more light over less time. If you have been running your boards at high power it is not possible to give them this increased DLI unless you add more lighting.

TLDR. Turn down your an a lot. Raise it to 3 feet. Seedlings don’t need that amount of light. Begging plants don’t need as muchlight as flower but they have more hours to get it.
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How do you account for outside grows, where the DLI is way over what any indoor lighting provides and way over what is needed for plants? My leaves don't droop.
 
A couple of mine drooped, but only in the dark. None of them drooped during daylight hours.
 
Honestly I have no idea since I have only grown under LED so it might be specific to that light. Outdoor even though higher intensity is natural so maybe it’s different? Also I was reading some strains don’t droop at all even at lights out so who knows. But I had 4 different strains act exactly that way under quantum boards that were turned up too high. 4 hours before lights out they droop. I know it’s anecdotal but I’m onto something here.
 
Well I have the light as high as it can go and it has no adjustment for light intensity. @Reave send me one of those 100 watt QB lights to try would you? I promise to return it. :cool: I'm thinking I may have to replace the 450 watt Viparspectra light (currently over the Peyote Wi-Fi) with a couple of CFL bulbs and see if that changes things any.
 
Window screen hanging under the lights is a good way to cut the intensity when you run out of headroom.
 
I might see if I can build a sun shade for that plant and try and diffuse the light a bit.
 
I have HLG 260 watt QB lights in my flowering tent. I like them. Maybe they're 280 watts, I can't recall exactly.
 
See above. The light is as high as it goes.
 
Aside from the pre lights out droops the Peyote Wi-Fi is moving along nicely. Healthy, shiny leaves with in my opinion very nice color. The node spacing continues to be Goldilocks. Not too far apart, but not too close, spacing is just right. She will not be in this pot for all too long and will move up to I'm thinking a 2 gallon pot. I let the soil dry out almost entirely and her roots have already reached the bottom of the pot and have started circling and moving up. Considering I just up-potted her on Sunday that's vigorous growth. That Great White Mycorrhizae I use really does a fantastic job. Here are a few photos.

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Howdy @marceline TWQ . I hope it turns out to be a good grow. Hope you enjoy it and if you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to chime in.
 
With this being a Seedsman grow I thought I would share a photo of my Seedsman Original Skunk #1 plant. It is at flip +20 days today. Hasn't stretched nearly as much as I anticipated but maybe she is going to keep stretching. I'll have to wait and see.
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About three weeks ago I mixed up a batch of fresh organic soil especially for the Peyote Wi-Fi plant when she hits her final 7 gallon pot. It got too cold to keep the tote outdoors so with help I moved it into the basement about 10 days ago. I went down to give it a stir today and was pleased to see a pretty Santa's beard covering the surface. It's Alive!!
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