Weedly said:

I’m a few days into the flip after spending two weeks carefully scrogging my plants. Now they are the tabletop shape that I read I was going for, but my question is this: the plants are basically wall to wall in my 4.6’ x 2.3’ tent, but I only have two Spider Farmer SF1000 lights, which are much smaller than the tops of the plants. I used the Photone app and found that the light over the outsides of the plants is much lower than in the center where at about 14” there’s about 800 ppfd. The plants seem happy now, but once they start growing buds way out from the center, are they going to suffer? What happens if a bud doesn’t get enough light? I am a medical user who doesn’t go through a lot, so I’m more after quality than quantity. Was scrogging with my setup a mistake? I really can’t upgrade the lights this grow. Is there anything else I should do?

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R4V3N said:

You should be good, the upwards growth is your main concern, and you have plenty of room. Anything underneath that is void of light, you can trim off anyway to get airflow underneath. You can also move your lights around too, as with a net the plants are basically locked in place. So I'd do some tilted light angles to light up the back buds for a few hours a day, to mimic the suns movement since you cant spin the plants around.

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Weedly said:

Thanks everyone!
I’ve been hesitant to do too much defoliation as a first time grower, but I have been trimming the big leaves down low to keep the air flowing around the undercanopy. I have a fan down there. If I am after bud quality rather than quantity, would it be better to trim the small bud sites forming underneath the canopy, or would that stress the plant more than removing the fan leaves above them?

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OldOneEye said:

Distance of light to the canopy requirements are not only due to
Temps but also the light needs the distance disperse into the core light pattern. Raise the light and inch or 2 and you will increase the size of the pattern.

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Weedly said:

I think I may be able to train the bigger sites more towards the middle underneath the lights as BearWater

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Weedly said:

I’m a few days into the flip after spending two weeks carefully scrogging my plants. Now they are the tabletop shape that I read I was going for, but my question is this: the plants are basically wall to wall in my 4.6’ x 2.3’ tent, but I only have two Spider Farmer SF1000 lights, which are much smaller than the tops of the plants. I used the Photone app and found that the light over the outsides of the plants is much lower than in the center where at about 14” there’s about 800 ppfd. The plants seem happy now, but once they start growing buds way out from the center, are they going to suffer? What happens if a bud doesn’t get enough light? I am a medical user who doesn’t go through a lot, so I’m more after quality than quantity. Was scrogging with my setup a mistake? I really can’t upgrade the lights this grow. Is there anything else I should do?

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Weedly said:

That’s interesting. If I lower the temp, would that reduce the light requirement, even if it does extend the growing period?

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BearWater said:

their great little lights! I’ll bet you pull some nice nugs man! : ) you can get them at the sweet spot so the area is still reaching the edges, and you can pull the branches around possibly.

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OldOneEye said:

Sorry for rambling

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HerbalEdu said:

2 sf1000 do scale a bit small for an even light coverage and light dispersion near tent border with a 4,6'x2,3' tent, you might get a few more larfy buds on the side than in the middle under each light.

not much you can do aside upgrading your light for some whose panel dimensions scale better with your tent dimensions.

(as comparison i'm running a sf2000 200W in a 3x2 tent)

(you can eventually upgrade with a third sf1000 in the middle and see wich panels orientation offer the more even light coverage and light dispersion, i think with three you may want to orient them perpendiculary as now)

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Weedly said:

I’m a few days into the flip after spending two weeks carefully scrogging my plants. Now they are the tabletop shape that I read I was going for, but my question is this: the plants are basically wall to wall in my 4.6’ x 2.3’ tent, but I only have two Spider Farmer SF1000 lights, which are much smaller than the tops of the plants. I used the Photone app and found that the light over the outsides of the plants is much lower than in the center where at about 14” there’s about 800 ppfd. The plants seem happy now, but once they start growing buds way out from the center, are they going to suffer? What happens if a bud doesn’t get enough light? I am a medical user who doesn’t go through a lot, so I’m more after quality than quantity. Was scrogging with my setup a mistake? I really can’t upgrade the lights this grow. Is there anything else I should do?

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longbottom said:

What will happen as they enter flower is all the colas will move more to the middle under the lights (might require slight training--I haven't had to though).... You'll be fine, your no where close to "screwed"... One SF-1000 per plant will knock it out of the park !!!

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Weedly said:

Very comforting to know. I will watch for that and give them a gentle nudge if they need it.

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