Captspaulding
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What’s the matter? Don’t like clowns? 🤡
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When I veg with my vipar lights, and with seedlings especially, my lights are at 25% max for cuttings and seedlings at least 2ft above canopy. It is a waste of energy. For instance I run 5 “p” series vipar in my veg room, they are all at 45% 3ft above canopy….Yeah, I'm also not sure how much UV this bulb has left and kind of worried it would burn a little plant. I see Amazon has 5000K bulbs for $11 so may get one of those.
Viparspectra recommends running their light at 24" 50% power. Kind of seems like a waste of energy if I can start them under 20 watt. Ambient temp will be in the low 70s but got a heat mat/dome for germination to bring it up.