I have a 640W HLG. The only time I've been able to use full power is with 2 week old plants, with the light at the top of the tent (which is occurring right now). I wonder how long before I have to start dimming i.

mysticepipedon said:

I have a 640W HLG. The only time I've been able to use full power is with 2 week old plants, with the light at the top of the tent (which is occurring right now). I wonder how long before I have to start dimming i.

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I've been at 50% power since I got the 550. If I go higher everything fries. Tents just don't have enough hanging height. Makes me wonder how people do it without c02. I tried this time but had a VERY stretchy strain, it wasn't supposed to be.

Allegedly said:

I've been at 50% power since I got the 550. If I go higher everything fries. Tents just don't have enough hanging height. Makes me wonder how people do it without c02. I tried this time but had a VERY stretchy strain, it wasn't supposed to be.

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So far I've noticed some strains are much more sensitive than others, and better fed plants don't suffer as much. What would be a slight Mg deficiency under HPS becomes a disaster.

Yes the 72" or 80" tall tents just do not work IMO. I use nothing but 7'11". But the plants I find can handle 100 percent light for almost the whole flowering period. Just turn them down the last couple of weeks and that is only to about 85 percent. I am using both the Gavita 1700e and the Fluence Syder 2I so I find this to be odd. But that sure looks light too much light to me as well!

Anthem said:

Yes the 72" or 80" tall tents just do not work IMO. I use nothing but 7'11". But the plants I find can handle 100 percent light for almost the whole flowering period. Just turn them down the last couple of weeks and that is only to about 85 percent. I am using both the Gavita 1700e and the Fluence Syder 2I so I find this to be odd. But that sure looks light too much light to me as well!

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the canopy is like 12 inches from the light and i cant raise anymore. thats what happened. they just stretched alot more than i thought they would.

I had that challenge myself. So, I had to do a few different things to get by. first thing I did was drill some holes every 4 inches around the top rim of the pot. Then I attached a bunch of 8" zip ties that I purchased at Har___ Fre____ and they were like $1.39 for 100. And on that attached zip ring I connected a yoyo plant device. I was able to pull down the top branches until my LST training clips could take over and slow the aggressive Apex and secondaries and allow the others to catch up. I would suggest a scrog if in the future you grow the same plant so you can still utilize your tent height. I built my own scrog after experiencing this. However, since this was a mother plant and already too big for this tent to begin with, I had to employ training and tie down tactics and then eventually rehang my light using 4 separate pulley's (one for each corner) And later to maximize height, I removed the pulley's altogether and metal clipped the light at each corner to tie wraps at the top poles. Here are a few pics as to what it looked like during my challenge.