I would probably drop it to 500 top heads, 300 edges, for veg the recommended level is like 300-400, but your not seeing patchiness from the light so I would assume your plant can handle a little.more light. 600-400 might still be a little high.
So after hours of dark, the growth that happened during dark is going to tend to be lighter, it hasn't had the light energy yet. If those areas darken up over time and the lighter nrw growth seems to happen consistently, it could be perfectly normal.
Yep. I don't have a meter for these numbers so Pilted knows about this. You can always increase light, you can't un-burn...
Yes, to your point, when I left for work this morning and the lights had been on all night, the new growth was definitely looking darker. I think the real benefit of posting tho was the heads up on the light intensity. I will definitely back off that significantly.
Yeah, sometimes it's not about "one thing". There could be more than one thing going on, or one thing can lead to another. You're doing right...
They look great, right on. You can reassess things over time. Maybe some of the very bottom/oldest leaves can go.........how about tying down to expose branches? Or fan leaf tucking. They pop back up over a couple of days but both of these things allow light to hit branches without cutting any leaves.
Yeah I think I could have taken some more off the bottom as well, but I wanna see how it plays out, it might use some energy where it shouldn't and effect yield a little, but after a few more weeks if i see lower branches not devolving well, I will make adjustments. For now I am happy with it and will give me a good contrast against one of my earlier grows where I defoliated very heavy. The lower leaves I am more or less leaving as they do not effect light penetration or air flow, and will give the plant some stored resources to draw from if I drop the ball on feeding.
It depends on how productive that bottom growth is......what it will take vs. what it will give back. But pruning, trimming.....I hate the term "defol"... ;). It's more of a philosophy. Once you take a stand for being very stingy with cutting it carries forward with you.
On my just-finished photo grow in soil, I left many of my lowest fan leaves until late into flower. I like to keep some on that part of the plant as an early warning system. Some plant problems show at the top, some at the bottom. Without those lower leaves I have less time to react when something goes awry that shows itself on the lowest remaining leaves.
@Pilted here is a pic of a white fire og. I flipped these last saturday, so 4 days into flower. Does this look more like a good light response? I ask because I intended on lowering the ppfd's on these as well as the troubled ones, but they look perky and they are at 800 ppfd so I would appreciate your opinion.
Those look great, once stretch comes to an end, I would increase the light range slowly going up to 1000 and watching the plant for any signs of stress. That's what I did with mine. When the stretch phase was over, I raised intensity, at about 940-980 I started showing some of the top leaves starting to taco. So pulled it back to the 900 range. My lower heads are in the high 700s low 800s. During stretch I was at 700 top heads, high 5s to low 6s lower heads. Only having to move the light once or twice a day now, during stretch was moving it 3-4 times a day.
Even tho they look good, I did dial it back a bit and will increase after the stretch. PPFD 700ish/DLI 28, Thanks again