Increasing Light Intensity Week 8 Flowering

I hope everyone is in good form and your grows are surpassing your expectations.

I tried running a search but haven't got anything.

Is there any adverse affects or even positive effects in increasing light intensity late in flowering (I say week 8 but that's from the switch of light, flowers started showing a couple of weeks (maybe 10 days ) later.

The reason I ask is I was playing it safe due to headroom but when I did the calculation about how much light was required for my area I realised I was shy of it. Running 220w. The plants look good to my novice eye if not a bit smaller than the last run but I'd read that I could maybe expect smaller colas but denser so should even itself out.

Floorspace is 2 x 3 and 45/50 per sq foot is 270W. Its my first run with Quantum boards and was scared of bleaching.

What do you think should I max out the quantum (260W Kit) until the end? I'd even thought about dropping an hour of light down to 10 hours which in my head kind of simulates the end of summer with lowering light duration.

Any help would be appreciated greatly.

Cheers

I don't see a problem will maxing it out. 50w sq/ft is good, from everything I've read if you want to maximize your lighting that 50 sq/ft is a good target.
Quantum boards are pretty solid light. Either way you'll do well in my opinion

Thanks for your thoughts @NugHeuser,

That's what I wanted to hear. I've been kicking myself for not doing the actual calculation before now but was too busy catching flies admiring my babies/Quantums. It's a multi strain so hard to tell.

One thing's for sure I'm seeing more trichomes than I did with MH/HPS, just my white widow (DP) seemed to have bigger colas last time round - then again its about this time that they normally start packing on weight so reckon I'm having a flap.

I feel like a kid counting sleeps before Christmas except Christmas for me is harvest day

All the best

oo2be said:

Thanks for your thoughts @NugHeuser,

That's what I wanted to hear. I've been kicking myself for not doing the actual calculation before now but was too busy catching flies admiring my babies/Quantums. It's a multi strain so hard to tell.

One thing's for sure I'm seeing more trichomes than I did with MH/HPS, just my white widow (DP) seemed to have bigger colas last time round - then again its about this time that they normally start packing on weight so reckon I'm having a flap.

I feel like a kid counting sleeps before Christmas except Christmas for me is harvest day

All the best

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I feel ya man I'm in the same boat at day 44. Plants are already so frosty. I'm expecting a handful to be done by about 7 1/2 weeks but we'll see, I'll be keeping an eye on the trichs