how much affect would a street light have

well nearby there is an instertate with woods in between me and the interstate. the woods are thick and hard to manage. my problem is is at the interstate they have those huge bulbs up there lighting up a good portion of the woods. any suggestions?

Go out at night and look for shaded spots.

HID lights WILL affect your buds, otherwise.

Those huge bulbs lighting the highway may be one of two types - LED induction lights/luminaries, which are probably not powerful enough nor do they emit light in the spectrum that makes plants grow so I wouldn't worry about that too much. Or they might be High Pressure Sodium, a lighting system with which i'm sure you're very familiar. These can and will fuck with your plants' dark/light cycle IF they are close enough. Again, I wouldn't worry too much unless your plants are really close to the highway. Plus the thick trees will help dissipate a lot of the light. For what its worth - the street lamps on the road in front of my house are HPS and I have never had a problem with my plants, which are located no more than 150 feet from said lamps and are offered no protection from the light via thick woods Anyway, good luck hope your grow goes well man! Peace RIU!

yeah they are high pressure sodium lights

It's funny you brought this up! I can't remember where, but a while back i saw a picture of an outdoor plant that was too close to a street light. Half of the plant flowered and the other half didn't because it was in the light all night from the streetlight. It was pretty cool as the half that didn't flower was about half the height of the side the flowered. It looked like there were two separate plants.

slomoking13 said:

It's funny you brought this up! I can't remember where, but a while back i saw a picture of an outdoor plant that was too close to a street light. Half of the plant flowered and the other half didn't because it was in the light all night from the streetlight. It was pretty cool as the half that didn't flower was about half the height of the side the flowered. It looked like there were two separate plants.

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I saw the same pic - believe it is in Jorge Cervantes book (grow bible).

ok i was just wondering cuz i figured it wouldnt be a good idea but i figured someone tried it before

GreatwhiteNorth said:

I saw the same pic - believe it is in Jorge Cervantes book (grow bible).

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Yep! it's the indoor outdoor medical grower's bible... i just flipped through the book real quick but didn't spot the picture

I wouldn't chance it.

They're are several different types of street lights, all of which will have a negative effect. Obviously, low pressure sodium street lights won't reach as far as high pressure ones, but can still do damage.

You really do need to go out there at night and see exactly how the light penetrates where you're going to plant before you make a decision.

place your ladies apart from each other so in case of an intruder you hopefully wont loose all of your crop!

some are metal halide as well... ive noticed it driving at night. its easy to tell.. reddish orange=HPS blue=MH