Best way to manage space

So I’ve been doing tons of research into flowering and I just can’t get an entire grip on it.
This is in a 5x5 and I have about 2x2 or 3x3 of the area taken up. I’m not sure how much buds I can even get with these two lights but how am I doing?? Do I keep going tying them down to the sides or let them grow all the way up by pulling up the lights?

Plants look fine insofar as you can tell with the blurples. Ideally you want a flat canopy so all of the bud sites get the same amount of light. I would keep tying them down to keep that canopy even.

Fordprefect42 said:

Plants look fine insofar as you can tell with the blurples. Ideally you want a flat canopy so all of the bud sites get the same amount of light. I would keep tying them down to keep that canopy even.

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I keep pulling the tallest stem down? What I’m concerned about is my light coverage, I’m not sure if im gonna have enough room for the buds to get coverage in light

Prob not with blurps
All depends on the size and wattage of your lights which we dont know what your using so hard to answer your question

User1534 said:

I keep pulling the tallest stem down? What I’m concerned about is my light coverage, I’m not sure if im gonna have enough room for the buds to get coverage in light

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It’s hard for me to say as I’m not in your grow room. Generally speaking though you want to manipulate the plant to keep as even a canopy as possible. The goal is to get more light on your buds. If you think training it reduces the overall light your buds get then don’t do it. If it increases overall light then bend away.

This is the current canopy on one of mine. It’s not perfect and even because I’m making compromises on what I can bend and what I can’t.

Just two lights, 600w, probably 240 true wattage in each. And that makes sense, when are you pulling the lights up in veg? Or am I supposed to keep them at a constant distance?

Fordprefect42 said:

It’s hard for me to say as I’m not in your grow room. Generally speaking though you want to manipulate the plant to keep as even a canopy as possible. The goal is to get more light on your buds. If you think training it reduces the overall light your buds get then don’t do it. If it increases overall light then bend away.

This is the current canopy on one of mine. It’s not perfect and even because I’m making compromises on what I can bend and what I can’t.

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Why couldn’t you bend those ? Too late in grow?

User1534 said:

Why couldn’t you bend those ? Too late in grow?

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Mostly it was either there was nowhere to bend them to because they didn’t go far enough up beyond the scrog or bending them would cover other stuff I wanted exposed. The plants there are about 3 weeks into flower and I’m still bending them a little, but that is starting to end because stretch is almost over.

As far as light height in veg I have been using a lux meter. I started them at about 10k as seedlings and worked them up to about 35k. In flower I have been trying to keep the max light at about 50k lux on my meter. As a practical matter what that meant for veg is I was raising the lights as the plant grew to maintain relatively consistent light strength. It’s not an exact science, at least not for me.