Mixin4life
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Can anyone give me some tips or ideas to revegging my plants I put them outside a couple days ago and it got stormy and dark on them and they are budded out I have them back underneath a 400 HPS.... please help!!!!
Revegging
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Mixin4life
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What about 24 on??
Nappertunity
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You can run 24h but there isnt a need.
KingQuazy
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LOL a couple hours of clouds won't "bud out" a plant. They are showing sex. That's what they do. It takes almost 2 weeks in flower before some real mass starts to show. Either you had them messed up before, or you read them wrong and should have just left them in Mother Nature. Because SHE will reveg them.
Casanova Frankenstein
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????
KingQuazy
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Huh? He claims the thing is in flower lol Inconsistent light def causes hermies.
Casanova Frankenstein
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Inconsistent light ? .... the 400w at a static height would be just fine regardless if it was out in cloudy skies.
Interruptions to dark period , bad thermal management , over fertilizing / stress , genetic propensity and other factors would
be a trigger , not from outside to inside.
Interruptions to dark period , bad thermal management , over fertilizing / stress , genetic propensity and other factors would
be a trigger , not from outside to inside.
KingQuazy
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Idk that I can be sold on it being ok to take a plant from under a 400w hps, throwing it outside for days exposed to beautiful lumens as well as UV.. and then putting it back under only 400w of hps. Either the punch of, or the loss of the sun is gonna cause at least some stress. No?
Casanova Frankenstein
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Lumens are for humans ...
KingQuazy
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I thought Lumens=PAR?
I do know spectrum plays a role. But no lums, no delivery?
Casanova Frankenstein
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No ... lumens are what “ we “ see in visible light .... PAR is what the plant “ sees “.
simple answer.
KingQuazy
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So low lumens don't equate in any way to a lack of delivery of photosynthetic active radiation?? I can use my 800 lumen rgb bulbs to deliver the good red light to a plant and pull some pounds off of it? I'm not buying this. There HAS to be correlation between Lumens and the intensity of PAR delivered...
KingQuazy
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So after doing some research.. Lumens don't matter ONLY when growing with LEDS. The HIDs and Fluorescents, lumens def matter. I was always taught 5000 lumens per sq ft but I just looked it up and 2500 is adequate.
Casanova Frankenstein
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Your 800 lumen “ bulbs “ equate to maybe a 60w lightbulb . Lumens pertain to brightness ... Par is for the photoreactive wavelengths that the plants uses and needs. Watts is a metric for energy not for actual light output. Par is the most usable metric for plants .
However , if you desire to play a numbers game , each of your plant should at least get 8000 lumens or better. Each plant.
However , if you desire to play a numbers game , each of your plant should at least get 8000 lumens or better. Each plant.
KingQuazy
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My 800 lumen bulbs are rgb and I can choose ANY temperature of light. Including wavelengths in PAR. They're actually only like 20W, but still. Just trying to prove my point.
KingQuazy
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Also to protect against misinformation, the sun produces 10,000 lumens a sq ft. 8,000 indoors is the top end.. A HIGH-END 1000w HPS produces 140k lumens. Divided by 16ft(4x4) and that leaves the most powerful grow lamps know to cannabis, at 8,750 lumens. Those things roast 4x4's and most brands are actually only 110k lumens. They deplete within one cycle as well.
As I said above, you can produce decent flower with 2500 lumens per sq ft and good with 5,000. Anything more and you need serious hvac. I would hardly say that 7 or 8 k lumens sq ft is the least a plant should get. It's just about the most.
Nappertunity
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My plants love me knowing where to apply water though. So lumens matter too? Lol
Mixin4life
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Ive actually had them out side for 2-3 weeks and they were fine
I actually had my plants outside for 2 to 3 weeks and they were doing fine and then we had 4 days of overhead clouding rain and hail went back and checked on them and they were showing signs of flowering.
This is the first time being under this light. Im in Northern California and traditionally I've always planted on Mother's Day but everything seemed weird this weird and I was waiting for the moon phase which is just the tip I got from a friend of mine who was planting this weekend and next weekend as well.