grow room temp at 26c or top of buds at 26c?

so ideal temp is around 26c max sort of for flowering. now do i want that temp in my room, or at the top of my buds? cause my bud tops are 29c ..85F under the light , and my room temps are 25c ..77F.

thanks

sounds good

to complicate it more

whats your soil temp?

people love to fiddle, cant blame'em, always looking to get it a little better.

personally, i just set it and forget it, too much watching equates to more doing, and more fucking up - for me anyways.

my soil temp is somewhere between 60-70, am i good? lol

put your thermometer at canopy level but not in direct light.

sunandsky said:

so ideal temp is around 26c max sort of for flowering. now do i want that temp in my room, or at the top of my buds? cause my bud tops are 29c ..85F under the light , and my room temps are 25c ..77F.

thanks

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The important temperature is the one where the plant is. It's all about how the temp effects the plants biological functions so the temp off in the corner or what ever is irrelevant.

Temp is really important so it's definitely something worth the occasional fiddling. My rooms run with active intake and exhaust instead of AC so every time the seasons change from summer to winter or back I have to switch some things around to adjust for warmer or cooler intake air.

Higher temps cause the plant to focus more energy on regulating internal temp than production and also can increase internode distances which both hurt the yield, a lot. The greater internode distance also makes for fluffier buds (and more fox tailing) which some think means lower quality.

It actually does hurt quality by reducing terpenes and potency. Some of this because of the plant using a good amount of effort to regulate it's temp instead of producing essential oils and also because some things, especially certain terpenes, have a very low phase change(solid>liquid/liquid>gas or back) temperature. That is the temp where they evaporate. It may even be sublimation (solid to gas without being a liquid in between). Either way it means less of the good stuff in the product.

Room temps not temps in the light, in the light you measure radiant heat not ambient. Ambient temp is what the air is and will affect transpiration. Transpiration cools radiant heat.

We measure air temps.