Here’s my journal if you care to breeze through sometime. It starts last August and I’m the last phase of it now before I start a new grow and journal.
It covers my outdoor grow, my first tent grow and clone grow from one of those original girls, and my current auto grow. You can see why I’m starting a new journal for the next grow. LOL!
Lighting has come a long way. It’s not the same with LEDs as it was with the old high intensity discharge lights. As has plant science. Since it’s becoming more and more accepted a lot more research has been done and there was a lot to discover.
While extra lights are great for filling in shadows and corners that are lacking there is such a thing as to much light.
A lot of people are using DLI to gauge how much light power they actually need to use to grow without over doing it.
I could achieve the same DLI with just the 2000 and running it at higher levels, but I’d have some areas that wouldn’t quite get the level because of the footprint of the light , and the plant itself would create more shadows on itself!
With more lights I eliminate the shadows and even out the light “canopy” and get the same DLI with only maybe 10-15w more than one light at full blast. The goal is to fill every square inch of usable light with plant! Best use of all the resources you have.
Here’s a link to the DLI info and discussion.
It’s really not as hard as it sounds and as usual - there’s a free app for it! LOL!
I’m glad to help you with that or anything else I can! Just put a @ in front of the user name, like @4NK8, and it’ll send a notification, and I am set to watch the thread here.
Happy Growing Everyone!!!