I’m still learning my hlg 350r, and at present I’m running it full blast, and showing around 1000 to 1100 ppfd, and approximately 45 to 55 dli. I have photone app and tent buddy, and they both read different. Both are pretty lame imo. Depends on how you hold the phone to how it reads, anyway, does anyone see any indication of light stress. Pics of 4 different buds. OG kush. 6 weeks 3 days flowering. Just wondering if I should be dialing it back.
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I’m wondering the same thing myself. I’ll be 5 weeks into flower tomorrow. Still soooo many pistils and growing…
Have the same light in a 2x4 tent.
Yours look great btw!!
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Both of you are doing a good job.
For me, I wait until pistils start to recede and brown out before dropping light levels. This is also somewhat strain-dependent as some plants react by pushing foxtails while others don’t.
I don’t see any real signs that they’re getting too much light.
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Thank you @Myfriendis410 ! I was getting worried. These are my first photos ever lol
Plus new light and all that haha
I just dont want any beans from stress and such 
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Recommend anything specific for lowering the light intensity at a certain point? Like my HLG isnt labeled on the dimmer i even just emailed them about it. It has 10 “clicks”. Obviously off is “off”, but even one click up is still “off”, so i don’t know if i have a bad light
I only have a QB135 B-spec for starting/vegging plants when little. My flowering lights are diy strip lights built on Bridgelux EB strips (Samsung) which I run at around 80% peak as that is the most efficient point for LED’s to run. I keep them at 200 watts per panel and if I see signs of excess light, drop it down another 25 watts or so. I use a ‘Kill-a-Watt’ meter to do this.
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@Myfriendis410 Very informative and helpful! Thank you!!
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I only hope to one day be able to understand building my own lights 
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I use a watt meter
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I cheated and used @dbrn32 shamelessly haha. They really are easy to do. In my case I had access to a large amount of aluminum stock which I re-purposed for heatsink material. The lights are just about perfect. More diffuse but larger coverage area: 22" X 36" with 4 panels in my 4 X 8 grow ‘room’. I ran the numbers on them once and got 1.26 grams of flower per watt of light. That’s pretty good. I’ll usually yield something like 48 oz of dried flower from a grow.
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You didnt cheat anything. @dbrn32 is freaking amazing honestly
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Nope, I asked them too. That’s the way they work.
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Weeeeeiiiirrrdddd Im so used to my Spider Farmer with clearly marked settings
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That makes a lot of sense. That’s what I’m going to do. Thanks.
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First click is off, sec clock is 0 and then up from there. I had the same questions. Here is the wattage per click according to hlg
Here is my setup as well as we are all close in time. I left mine at click number 7 or 320 watts, would run to the full ampunt but having trouble with the heat. Those things put off serious heat imo, more then my 600w air cooled hps
This is one day shy of wk5 as well. Two are budding amazingly, two seem to be behind…stubborn girls for sure, not sure those two will fill out the way i want. Hope this helps
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Ignore that one pick…fat fingers. Last thing i wanna say is it is easier to do a lux reading and go to hlg site to covert from lux to ppfd selecting the diablo style input, it will convert automatically and i feel that is most accurate
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@Poseidon1 GORGEOUS!
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Im still a tard Panda… i just switched out lights. I barely still have an understanding of the Photone light.
I just wanted a cooler light that was like a neutron star in my tent compared to the SF2000 lol
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makes good sense to me.
Else, dial back some and INSURE temps do not spike.
You can afford dial back some, plants doing good, time and controlled environment, needed now.