I'm digging the nodal spacing of those babys. They seem very tight for the distance from the LEDs or are you moving them up higher to take pictures? Regardless the plants are really coming around. Those B-luxes seem to be great for vegging. Also Pico do you think your management is having anything to do with nodal spacing? I run a 12/1 veg cab and my Blue Cheese will stretch to shit during veg with my 30 watt XP-E arrays. Maybe I need more light or maybe you've got something with your micro sleeps.
Good Luck Pico. Here's to smooth sailing the rest of the way
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Hey thanks for having a look, you know the nodes where even closer on some of them before. One of the back plants is so tight I have shove my head in there just to see the stock. They are all at the same stage of growth and from memory the ones with the bigger set of first true leaves are the shortest. When I fist started in the smaller pots I moved them around all the time, now I haven't touched them since the transplant. I probably would if I could but it was such a tight fit I wouldn't want to hurt the root systems. The smallest one right now had a few problems, I fuck about half the root system in the transplant so it was stunted or shocked for a while.
I think maybe the spacing could be from the high amount of energy the fan leaves are producing, there is just a non stop string of little leaf fingers popping out out of each site. I think I counted 3 separate leaves forming on the main stem at one point. the only other thing I can think of is I give them light for more then 20 hours a day and its always above 82-84 degrees.
Although I did touch on this in in t COB thread, ambient light might be key to the spacing I am getting. If you only light the plant for one angle, top down why wouldn't it stretch for the light. In real life this is might be a factor, that if the plants have to choose them self at when to start their inter-nods, I would think they try and get above everything else. I think the only way they could tell is if there was more or less light from very flat angles. Could be wrong.
Also just so you know, no changes to the lights are going to be made for flowering except the on and off times.
If you have a link to the data sheets for the lights you have going I will take a look. How are you powering them or are they a complete panel?
FranJan u just mentioned something that wants me to raise a question here. Sorry dont wanna hijack. A node is when leaves come out at the side at one height of the stem, right? If thats a node then my plant had like 8 nodes on 6,5cm, means every 0,8 cm one node. Does that mean my light is by far to Close to the plants? Sry im a bloody newb.
I too have lots of nodes at a small height about what you mentioned, but they are much older now and there are many more, how old was it at this stage? Also from seeds I suspect?