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Keep in mind that there are now led's that can blast your plants with light...light burn is way different than heat burn from an HID being too close....resins are effected from TOO STRONG of a light as much as heat from being too close, which would be more common with the HID's of course.....I have seen PLENTY of light burn from LED's being too close, even though the heat is negligible....I feel LED lighting has Finally caught up in effectiveness, but you will pay dearly for a quality one...WAY TO MANY cheap Chinese LED'S on the market...Glad you brought your 40 years of experience to the farm, welcome.
This observation is only about hid lighting right. Because with leds my tops are the frostiest usually. But the idea of letting it build up resins with less light is nice, i actually shorten the hours too. At the last week or two, i do 10/14, some say it makes them mature faster, some say more trichs, some say it doesn’t do shit :) i don’t have a big facility to do scientific tests, so i have no idea but my buds seems ok.
But in any event, whether HID or a qulality powerful LED, Toning down the light INTENSITY works great for me....I feel many are afraid that if they have all that power, they would short change themselves by running 50% or so....MORE THE BETTER philosophy has been practiced too much...If they can agree that their buds are ALREADY as big as they will get BEFORE ripening is in order, then toning down that powerful light wont effect their yields...Its just time to pamper those precious resins, THAT WE GROW FOR...YT....
BTW, WOW, for a thread a cpl yrs old, there were sure ppl standing by to share info...GOOD DEAL....maybe I'll show up at THCF more often...YT
Quick edit....I really forgot to mention that even if my intensity ISNT too much for the buds up high, where the existing ones are NOT negatively effected, BUT toning that intensity down has IMPROVED those existing trichs....bigger and better looking over all.....
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