Be careful when misting your plants...

...if your lights are too close. My leaves and plant were doing fine with my 1000w led at the height it was at.
That is, until I innocently decided to mist the plant with a few mist sprays of pure clean water.
Next day, the leaves had lots of black burn spots and shriveled leaves on the leaves that were in direct
line of sight of the LED. I'd heard of this happening (droplets acting like magnifying glass) but didn't realize what a mess of things misting can cause even tho the plant liked the light at the distance it was at before misting. At first I thought some poison got into the soil or mold and fungus was running rampant. Thankfully, this shouldn't doom my autoflower which is about 10 days away from harvesting. I would warn anyone who's thinking of foliar feeding to beware. I'm not going to mist my plants in the future. They didn't really need it to begin with!

My rule, water when lights are off or remove them from the room and whips leaves lol had this happen

I'm a bit bummed at how much trimming of dead LED burnt fan leaves I had to trim off. Fortunately, I didn't freak about it being due to some soil condition or fungus and go overboard trying to correct that. Small fan leaves on the buds are looking better now...less burnt. Haha.

Edit: Can CFL's also cause light burns if too close when droplets of water sit on a leaf like a magnifying glass? CFL's run so cool and all.

Why were you spraying buds with water ?

There is ZERO reason to " foliar " anything that is flowering.

I'd read about foliar spraying and all that. . My bad. Heh, it was just plain water misted onto the plant as an afterthought. Lesson learned.

Anyone wanna answer my wondering if CFL's will also cause leaf burn with droplets of water acting as mini magnifying glasses? Or does that only pertain to LED lights?