Meanwhile, Pandora doesn't seem to be complaining much. She's been moved out of the direct blast of a 12" fan next to her and wind-burned leaves have been chopped off, otherwise she's just plodding along as you would expect but now pistils are browning and you can see the weight going on. Still plenty time to kill her.
So time to start planning for next cheap LED panel, thinking of upping the Kelvin a little if I can, and moving to SMD 8520 which should give me quite a bit more lm/w than the 5730, busy looking at rigid strips since, well, I can. Ain't as if I don't have the power supply for them since I have 2 x 360w power packs PLUS my original modified PC power supply so, in total, that's potentially the best part of 900w at 12v capability and I know I can get these strips cheap as hell. It's just figuring out what to get, you has to be careful, since their definition of "cool white" doesn't match mine when I see pictures, their "cool" is my "cold", BUT there's nothing to stop me mixing in the 5730 strip I use just now or even buy a second "colour" to fire up as well in flowering. Decisions, decisions, especially when you want to keep things under €25-30.
I know, I could just buy a QB or cobs or some fancy "grow light" but where's the fun in that and how would I "inspire" others to think out of the box a little if I did that?
So here's little Pandora, not directly under the light for a change.