ebenezerfagglegold
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this is just a simple curiosity. I'm on my second grow, everything's going well enough. I learned a lot on the first go-round, particularly about growing conditions like temperature, humidity, and ph. One oddity has carried over from my last grow into this one though, and that is that at the end of the day my plants are really ready to crash. I have 3 in flower now - on a 13/11 schedule, and ONE of those females starts drooping about an hour before the lights go out, the other two don't. I have four in veg on a 9/15 cycle and the same deal happens with these - about an hour before lights out they start drooping. When the lights come back on in the morning, everyone is bright eyed again.
Now as I understand it, this could be normal. Maybe even a sign of healthy plants since they know their schedule so well. I'm using CFLs. I have 6 26w cfls on the veg table and like 10 in the flower box. Both a mixture of daylight and soft white. I have 4 fans blowing air in the same direction into and out of the veg area, and I have an air conditioning hose going into an air input area in my flower box and a 10 inline exhausting air into the attic. Long story short - temps rarely reach above 73 and haven't dropped below 70 even at night yet. btw my thermometer/hygrometer is right below the lights so it probably is in the high 60s at the root zone. The reason I mention the lights and temps is because I thought I might have been working the plants too hard with heat/light on my last grow, but since everything is dialed in, and I'm only using CFLs, this seems unlikely.
The curiosity I have is how many of you guys have similar experience with plants that just look tired around bedtime? I see a lot of people talk of 24 hours of light but by the way this looks to me that sounds like a death sentence for my plants, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe with or without light they'd bounce back by morning IDK. This was probably too long a post for what it is, but does anyone have any input?
Now as I understand it, this could be normal. Maybe even a sign of healthy plants since they know their schedule so well. I'm using CFLs. I have 6 26w cfls on the veg table and like 10 in the flower box. Both a mixture of daylight and soft white. I have 4 fans blowing air in the same direction into and out of the veg area, and I have an air conditioning hose going into an air input area in my flower box and a 10 inline exhausting air into the attic. Long story short - temps rarely reach above 73 and haven't dropped below 70 even at night yet. btw my thermometer/hygrometer is right below the lights so it probably is in the high 60s at the root zone. The reason I mention the lights and temps is because I thought I might have been working the plants too hard with heat/light on my last grow, but since everything is dialed in, and I'm only using CFLs, this seems unlikely.
The curiosity I have is how many of you guys have similar experience with plants that just look tired around bedtime? I see a lot of people talk of 24 hours of light but by the way this looks to me that sounds like a death sentence for my plants, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe with or without light they'd bounce back by morning IDK. This was probably too long a post for what it is, but does anyone have any input?
now where does it say the location of your thermometer????