Is There A Better Way To Position My Lights?

Weedbro95 · Sep 16, 2018

I have two 450w LED’s which I think equals 400 or so true watts. I’m growing 3 Sativa’s in 7 gallon smart pots with fox farms soil. The problem I’m having is the light seems to not spread to the plants equally. The plant on the left is the biggest and I’m guessing because it has a light basically all to itself. Is there a way for me to move the lights so it’s more equal? It’s a 3x3x6 grow tent.

Thanks!

SoLowDolo · Sep 16, 2018

Weedbro95 said:
I have two 450w LED’s which I think equals 400 or so true watts. I’m growing 3 Sativa’s in 7 gallon smart pots with fox farms soil. The problem I’m having is the light seems to not spread to the plants equally. The plant on the left is the biggest and I’m guessing because it has a light basically all to itself. Is there a way for me to move the lights so it’s more equal? It’s a 3x3x6 grow tent.

Thanks!

You could maybe try turning the light on the right so it runs perpendicular to the other one. I dunno if that would help. Or you could just rotate you're pots. Move them to a new spot each day.

SoLowDolo · Sep 16, 2018

Oh, or sit your lights side by side but running parallel to each other, so their footprint is more of a square to match the square shape of your tent.

Weedbro95 · Sep 16, 2018

I’m not sure there’s enough room to put them parallel next to each other they’d probably be a little crushed. And isn’t it good to give each plant some room between each other?

JWM2 · Sep 16, 2018

Turn them both 90 degrees. It’s too early to judge growth rates. Don’t have the lights too close when they are young. You can move them closer as they mature.

xeamonk · Sep 16, 2018

I would flip both those lights 90 degrees. Unless I'm missing something in that pic, it looks like you'd get a more even spread that way. One seedling being bigger, it's probably genetics, seedlings arent sucking up light in that way yet, they all are getting more light than they can use at this point.

Weedbro95 · Sep 16, 2018

JWM2 said:
Turn them both 90 degrees. It’s too early to judge growth rates. Don’t have the lights too close when they are young. You can move them closer as they mature.

What would 90 degrees look like? Sorry I suck at math lol

SoLowDolo · Sep 16, 2018

Weedbro95 said:
I’m not sure there’s enough room to put them parallel next to each other they’d probably be a little crushed. And isn’t it good to give each plant some room between each other?

I meant turn both of your lights a quarter turn so they are running parallel to each other, not the plants...

SoLowDolo · Sep 16, 2018

Make the long side of your lights touch each other instead of the short sides touching lol

SoLowDolo · Sep 16, 2018

SoLowDolo said:
Make the long side of your lights touch each other instead of the short sides touching lol

But then I would still separate the lights by a good 6 inches or so

Weedbro95 · Sep 16, 2018

Sounds good I’ll do that and just move them closer as they grow?

goingtoguano · Sep 16, 2018

Weedbro95 said:
Sounds good I’ll do that and just move them closer as they grow?

Yes. They should be like 30" away when they are seedlings (in fact you could get away with just running one of those leds) and then 18-24" in veg and finally 12-18" during flower. It should say that in the instructions that came with the lights. I had them too close before when my plants were small and damn near killed them in a couple days.

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