Amos Otis
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This is a very good point - never looked at it that way before.Light is absorbed, so as long as your environment is sealed, the plants are getting that light at somepoint
This is a very good point - never looked at it that way before.Light is absorbed, so as long as your environment is sealed, the plants are getting that light at somepoint
. Glad I could impart that one. It's the biggest advantage of a light sealed environment. All of the light will either be absorbed or convert to heat. Both are beneficial when managed for our purposes.This is a very good point - never looked at it that way before.
Ahh cross lighting. I suspected maybe this was the reason. Guess that explains why i cant put my 600w hps's any closer than 18" w/o bleaching. Im running a few more than a coupleTons more light than a personal grow.
When you put 20 lights in a 15' tall sealed room your are putting light out more like the sun. You're not even thinking about 4x4 or 5x5 footprints and how close you can get the lights. Overlap and just tons of light, there are so many factors other than light that attribute to our plants. You'll notice a lot of the more experienced growers have their lights much higher in their small/personal areas than the newer guys. (Not all some guys are still super focused on getting the lights as close as possible, it's just not the way to go about yielding more or better IMO. Get your environment right. Light is absorbed, so as long as your environment is sealed, the plants are getting that light at somepoint.
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Yr gonna be amazed w the difference the hps brings to the party broAbt to do the same. Super huge wattage for the space. Just so i dont have to keep manoeuvring lights. Abt to interchange 1000w leds and 1000 hps.
Lumens are irrelevant more or less here. In a big closed environment a lot of it is shear photon output. Light doesn't disappear per se at any point. It's is either absorbed or converted to heat. The light bounces around in the room until one of these two things happens.Ahh cross lighting. I suspected maybe this was the reason. Guess that explains why i cant put my 600w hps's any closer than 18" w/o bleaching. Im running a few more than a couple
But lumens fade quickly w distance tho right? Its hard to wrap my brain around how it wouldnt be more efficient to use less light and closer to the canopy? Just seems to me that its a waste, but i know im prolly not understanding it right.
Anyhow, thx for the info bro!!
Is it just the males?na the females are forced flowering indoors a couple weeks since the flip. I dnt think theyre auto flowering. Plus the mom is a landrace, i think. Sativa at that.
Ive been doing some reading and i believe i caused flowering for improper acclimation. I never weined em down on light hours, i just put em outside in 14 hours of light from 18 inside. Does this sound like it could be the cause?
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thx homes! Ya same pappy, but unfortunately i havent had the pleasure of running Angelica yet
Yeah they definitely could see a drop in light as the time to change, I've also had plants flower under 14 hours of light. It'd be odd with a sativa landrace under normal circumstances but maybe the 18-14 swap could've signaled flower. If they were ready to go when you put them outside with the dramatic decreas in light that also could've attributed. I think you've got the right idea as to what happened. I tend to like starting outside plants outside. I had issues with acclimation as well a few years back similar to what you are experiencing and swapped to all outside for summer. .thx homes! Ya same pappy, but unfortunately i havent had the pleasure of running Angelica yet
My reply never showed up on my last post :/Is it just the males?
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My reply never showed up on my last post :/
But ya the females are being forced flowered indoors so ya its just the males outside
But i was doin some research and i think i caused the males to flower by improper acclimation. I put them out into 14 or so hours of light outside from 18 hrs inside, without weining them off the 18 hrs of indoor light. Does this seem like a likely cause ?
I got you.Yeah they definitely could see a drop in light as the time to change, I've also had plants flower under 14 hours of light. It'd be odd with a sativa landrace under normal circumstances but maybe the 18-14 swap could've signaled flower. If they were ready to go when you put them outside am with the decreased light that also could've attributed. I think you've got the right idea as to what happened. I tend to like starting outside plants outside. I had issues with acclimation as well a few years back similar to what you are experiencing and swapped to all outside for summer. .
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Makes sense! Thx for the schooling bro!Lumens are irrelevant more or less here. In a big closed environment a lot of it is shear photon output. Light doesn't disappear per se at any point. It's is either absorbed or converted to heat. The light bounces around in the room until one of these two things happens.
As a side note, this is in a sealed environment. If you have holes or leaks, some of the light will be lost out those holes. Whether directly or by reflecting out.
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Happy to contribute. There are a ton of factors that can cause early flowering outdoors so we're both kind of hypothesizing. But that definitely seems to be the most likely culprit.Makes sense! Thx for the schooling bro!
Man was I ever lol it's over good run but their defense isn't good enough. Still love them