... I was just wondering how far did you keep.your cfls from.your plants at the flowering stage ...
Hey Majorstoner, when you say "at the flowering stage", I guess you mean after they stop with vertical growth, right? Well, that depends on what my temps are like.
If it's a hot day and the temps inside start getting real high, I'll take her off of her little pedestal and the top will be about 12 - 15 cm, 4 and a half - 6 inches, from the lights. That's the two big bulbs right over her head, 325 watts.
When it's cooler in the tent, and the temps stay at a healthy ~27°, I'll raise her back up and have her about 7 - 9 cm, 3 inches, roughly, away.
You can get them in pretty close, but if the leaves touch the bulbs, they'll get burn spots and those spots will become necrotic and will not recover.
You can keep them in pretty close during the vegetative stage too, about three inches. But if you have the lumens, keeping them a little farther out could increase node spacing a bit and it's easier to catch that moment when the rapid growth starts. Then it's a race to keep them at that magic distance where the plant keeps working to reach the lights, stretching out those side branches, pushing up the top. Then it stops and you can snuggle them in close.
Thanks for reading through my thread, and I hope you stick around! :smokebuds:
... I plan on upping my pot size to 5 gallon pots instead of 1.5 hoping for a bigger yield. We'll see how it goes. Looking great bro...
Damn Rob! With lots of room and 5 gallon pots, the way
you grow... I'm positive you're gonna have some kick ass yields!
Thanks for the compliments! :smokebuds: