well tonight, i'm smoking some of my Sour Wreck (trainwreck ibl x Sour Diesel) and it got me thinking

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before when i took the 8.5K lux reading, the horizontal lights were roughly 16" from the phone. so i raised the horizontal bars, and started taking lux readings again. the horizontal strips were now roughly 4 feet from the phone and all of my readings from plant level, 1', 2' and 3' off the top of the dwc tubs, read between 7.5K and 8.5K.
so coverage is awesome. even when the horizontal lights are so high they will no longer be in play (with a 3-4' tall plants) the lux readings at the bottom of the plant still read 7.5K (that's all side lighting. of course plants will block some light and reduce lux readings when they get bushy, but this should be tremendously better than the penetration of my 600w hps.
first, i had to keep the 600 14-16" above the canopy and as you can see in this photo the lux reading at that point is roughly 10K, like i read with my phone. well if i have a 3-4' tall plant you can clearly see how lumens drop off. the bottom of the plant is really suffering. and i always had under developed and small popcorn buds that went into concentrates.
so basically i am going to predict the hps might make some tighter, fatter buds on the main colas, but overall i think the LEDS will give me a higher yield due to the more consistent coverage.
with the hps about the best i ever did was probably in the 1.1 gpw range.
if i can reach 1 gpw with the f-cloak, i could yield 1.75 lbs. that would be 7 ozs per plant average. indoor, in a tent, with the 600 hps the best i have ever done on one plant was 6 ozs.
looking at the chart again and realizing my very best buds on the HPS plants were in the 5K-12K range of lumens, 7.5-8.5K everywhere in the tent should ROCK
