That Nightmare Kush looks great Evil, will be interested to see how it flowers out. Beautiful plants.
How close do you let your lights get to the plants?
I had been having good results with most strains at 14" from the canopy. I find that any closer makes the plants stay smaller and feed more aggressive and start having deficiencies. However I am.now messing around with having my lights further away and it's only been a couple of days but so far so good. The lights are currently at 30" away ..........
I've had similar results. During stretch I'm always trying to lower them... I guess to make sure the stretch is normal and not impacted by too little light. But it never works out, I always end out raising them again. I've read a bunch of grow threads where guys running them at 50w+ keep them much closer, just doesn't work for me. Maybe only hydro can get away with that?
Speaking of alternative media... Evil, what's your conclusion of your experiments with SIPs? It looks like you aren't using them anymore?
Next run (starting in January) I'm still planning on doing a sip/non-sip comparison, since I'll be running two of the same strain in the 2x4. Maybe I'll come to some sort of conclusion, that one will be a long run from seed so it'll be May before it's over.
Ok, cool. I just figured since im at 50w cobs too id try and run a comparison. Im at about 10 inches from my tops right now, was looking for bleaching and canoeing signs but had no clue too much light could stunt a plant. I had my lights closer and plant still stretched like crazy so im thinking it may be a genetic stretch (bagseed unknown)
This is one of the things that makes getting to the bottom of these topics difficult -- we're all growing different strains with different medium and nutes -- when the lights are the only thing we have in common it seems to me that we're comparing apples and oranges. It's still interesting though, if we get enough data and look across it, we might see trends after a while.
Oh no!
Oh no!
Do NOT let this guy get bored!
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