youknowthekid!
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I had a little adventure last wk, I upgraded my lighting put in a 1k bulb in my flower area. I turned it on and it freaked out my girls, I raised it everyday to where it was almost 2' above the canopy, but the girls were traumatized. I don't know if it was the extra radiation or the change in color spectrum. After 3 days the buckets were still full, they hadn't drank anything. So I switched back to the twin 400 CMH. In one 11 hr light cycle they drained the buckets and now a few days later, they are building again at full speed. I lost a full 3 or more days playing this little game. As anyone else experienced a trauma, or break in period when first exposing plants to a 1000W?
You went from about 40k lumens to 150k lumens. Really just need to ease in to that big time. You'd probably have more par with that much extra power at 2'6" lol! Just start really high up and ease into it while the plants get acquainted.