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keenan878
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Get one of those $50 light meters. Mine got rebranded by hydrofarm.
Try to keep light values under 5500 footcandles maybe, that is what I have heard/read is a point of declining rate of return for wattage vs weight.
Can foliar to supplement enhanced nutritional demand from enhanced light values.
I personally am fond of sixtysomething watts/ft2 for overhead. Lower watts/ft2 may be better for total overall yield for non-sealed environment.I'm to far along to foiler feed. I'm currently getting a little more then 1 and a half per light so im not to super worried about it, but if moving them higher can get me more medicine then i'm all for it. ill check the foot candles and see what it says. thanks for the info
so 83.3 watts per ft^2i'm in a sealed CO2 inviornment, have 2 12x4 ft tables, with 3 100's per table so they're covering roughly 3x4 area per lights
You are at 62.5 watts/ft2 average.so 83.3 watts per ft^2
You are at 62.5 watts/ft2 average.
Sounds about right.
A lot can vary according to reflector, though.
I found 80 watts/ft2 from super sun 2's overhead to be a little too much. I enhanced light values by having reflectix walls, floor, ceiling though.
Gonna go with plantmax this time I think. Hella cheap, good PAR values.You still running digilux?
outwest
As far as I know(and this is coming from someone who nerded out on this sort of thing way more than I did) there are a very limited number of manufacturers, and many lamp brands are identical or nearly identical. Lots of rebranding going on in the lamp industry apparently, not very much true innovation.My concern with cheaper bulbs isn't the quality of output but rather the increased potential for failure.
outwest
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