Oh me, buddy me and you were gonna be friends because you’re onto the right track there 100% I wouldn’t really deviate from the way you’re thinking, because I always tell everybody all right, no matter what it’s always better to have your lights higher than any manufacturer specs that come with the package only thing that manufacturer spec is good for is a PPFD map but outside of that, you know that’s relative to what height you keep your light at less always more until you have your rig dialed it to hang everything higher. Turn your output down because you can always give a hungry plant more light and more nutrients if it wants it it’s a lot harder to repair a damage plant from a toxicity and light burns while still trying to get it to yield and repair it. I always say boost plants and leave your lights high the entire run
I have yet to be able to crank 80% output on a flowering room without damaging my plants in someway shape or form yeild chasing once upon a time I would redline my rigs and try to get as much as I possibly could per square inch out of my rooms, but my herb wasn’t as good I always figured you know if you’re gonna be the type of person to do what we do why would you rob yourself with quality just gotta smoke more weed if it’s not as good so at the end of the day having a little bit less really isn’t the end of the fucking world unless you’re just like a douche bag that’s all me first gimme gimme shit What’s the rush man? Also, you know there’s no rule that says you have to flip your plants from veg to flower at day 30 sometimes all my plants veg for four months because I plant 1 million of them and then my flowering room gets filled up and whatever I’ll just spin wheels and let the plants eat a bunch of nitrogen for as long as they can stand it and I can stand it Anyway sounds to me like you got the right head about it. These lights are extremely powerful and on top of that, the penetration through these leaves is absolutely mind blowing, even if you haven’t defoliated the plant in anyway.
And you know I can do runs where I have colas that are 6 inches away from my LED bars. You know what I mean and not do anything wrong to my plants or whatever you can always offset a lot of this crap with you know high circulation higher ventilation, a dehumidifier and air conditioner. There’s all types of things that you can use to curtail to your style while not sacrificing your plants strongest attributes in the late stretch of flower. Then after you’ve had a bunch of successful runs with the rig and equipment that you have you don’t even think about trying to dial it in because it’s just dialed in you. We are all critters of habit and once you learn how to get the best quality out of the stuff that you have. It becomes easy as fuck.
What are the biggest pains in the ass that I deal with around here and the people that feel like every single metric as far as data driven analysis relative to cannabis growing has to apply all the time every run no matter what when when I started you didn’t need any of that crap PPFD maps I don’t even know what that is you know DLIKPV hiv aids , flying sandwiches all that weird shit you know I don’t. I don’t fucking need any of that crap I know that some people do so they don’t lose their fucking minds or whatever but to this all go and I’m not knocking this stuff for the people who use this shit but a lot of the methods and variations in that stuff that has happened since like I don’t know 2005 you know the more that we got better technology this stuff started coming out. It’s just extra money that you spent on crap you’re still gonna grow the plant without that shit I promise you if you just listen, get your head out of your ass and look at some pictures. Talk to the right people and pay attention shit is arbitrary to me once you get the fundamentals down. It just is what it is at that point. Nothing‘s gonna change. It’s not like the plant’s gonna grow into a mutant to try to kill you if you do something wrong or you have a power outage I’ve always found it less is more and almost every area of cultivation
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