A great way to tell if the light is too close is to use your hand. Place your hand, palm down, at canopy level. Hold for 30 seconds, if its too hot for your hand its too hot for your plant. Common light distance is 12-18 inches.
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That was not the case with these lights. I never feel any burning heat unless my hand is two inches from it.
Then I would either, download the photone ap and dial in your DLI for the growth stage your in. Or, follow the distance and intensity settings given by the manufacturer.
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From the end of December took on a venture to grow something. Started with no knowledge, just basic stuff. I’m tired of spending my hard earned money on overprice cannabis. And now, two months later, we are running full force. Thank you all.
Before
After
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Looking really good in there! You can see the difference in the quality of light even in a picture.
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Greetings everyone. Hope ya are having a Good Friday. I just want to show you the baby of the house. Turning three weeks old today. The little Godzilla cookies. Just growing like she is lettuce. Don’t know if I did right. But I have cut two sets of fan leaves. They were just holding all the grow under and they were huge fan leaves, hence the name of the plant. Since I lowered the intensity of the lights to 75% equaling a total of 150 watts for the 3x2 tent. She has responded well. But at the same time. All of them grow and stretch getting ready for that 4th week and pistils starting to show up. So my inexperience is definitely throwing things around into bits of chaos. With the deficiencies in the other plants. Maybe cause by the light intensity and I was trying all sort of things with soil and the ph and nutrients, and apparently it was the lights, that problem with lights can be seem as deficiencies in plants. But what do I know. Just learning as I go. But anyway. Here is the 3 week old lettuce. And have a great evening my peoples.
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While others watch Sunday morning. This is how I spend my Sunday mornings. With my pain in the ass ladies. Working on a Sunday update. Lots to talk about this week.
Now ya can put a face to my comments. And know who ya talking too.
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I dont do sunday mornings either! Ladies looking good, you are looking like a proud plant dad, and everybody looks happy.
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Greetings all. Hope all is well. Today is a new story. What apparently was a nutrient deficiency turned out to be too much light intensity for my plants. After all I was running 200 watts in a 3x2 tent. With 1/3 of tent being occupied by fans and humidifier. So literally 200 watts for a 2 x2 set up. So I was force to lower light intensity. I’m running with 2 viper spectra p1000. So lowered the one on top of the two late flowering plants to 50% and the one on top of newer plants to 75%. I believe if I’m right. That equals to 125 watts. Since they are 100 watts lights. Am I right on this measurement ?
Ok. So now we moved on to the individual ladies. Here is the 1st lady of the house. Late flowering. Tomorrow she makes 12th weeks since she’s sprouted. And her 60th day since pistils showed up. After a close observation to the trichomes. There is actually a 7 to 3 ratio. Milky to clear. On the top colas. The ones below are actually 50% cloudy. There is a few amber trichomes here and there throughout the plant. I stopped feeding her and just giving her mostly water.
Number 2 plant. Wedding cheese cake. Same soil as plant number one. Big disappointment. She did flowered and got some buds. But this won’t make 1/4 of a ounce. Just a waste of time and nutrients with her. My inexperience plus the organic soil really threw me off big time. She is 10 weeks old and been flowering for 41 days. Again. Very dissatisfied with her.
Now moving on to number 3. Now is different soil. FFOF. Wedding cheese cake. 53 days old and a month since pistils showed up. Deficiencies are very notable. But maybe it was the lights. But I see improvements since lowering the lights. She regaining some color. And she is doing good. Got 19 colas going up. This one even tho she
don’t look too good. I really hope that the issues were the lights. Because I’m doing all else right. Or I just got to get used to having this little problems with all my grows.
Plant number 4 is doing so well. But I have to feed soon. Want to keep her nice and green before flowering. I did not did that with other ones. They were already losing their colour by flowering time. This is Godzilla cookies. She is 23 days old today. And she is just growing beautifully. I have taken four huge fan leaves of her. They were holding all they explosion of grow underneath. Believe the light intensity was keeping her a bit short. But that’s not the case anymore. She is just starting to push up. Just checked her ppm coming out and is in the 800s. Going to feed in Her next watering some cultivation nation veggie. To get her loaded with nitrogen so she won’t look so pale entering flowering mode.
Just trying different with her. Trying to avoid the pale looking conditions with all three previous plants. Going to give her a flush before she goes into flowering. I heard things about this soil. I’m just learning as I go. And need to figure out the latest obstacle for a more pretty flowering time.
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Thanks again and any tips are greatly appreciated.
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Your focusing on the wrong measurement. Total watts when choosing a lamp for growspace. DLI or PPFD when choosing intensity and distance.
This is one of the most informational threads on the forum. Even just reading the first post will say more then I can on the subject.
She looks great! You gotta be happy about the inpending harvest.
You shouldnt be. Each harvest turns inexperience into experience. Im always telling people, you only harvest too early once. Or, you gotta grow to know. Alot of this “hobby” is plant listening, straight up. Your learning a whole new language, each sentence is a success 
Only if you kill her before harvest.
Each one has its own challenges.
In your next auto, try to keep these. Try tucking tye leaves and training them out of the way like this
Or my favorite way, clip the middle finger to allow the branch through but keep the big leaf.
Excellent Idea with FF soils. (OF right?) Its good idea to flush FF soils every few weeks. As the feeding schedule suggests. If using sledgehammer, follow its directions carefully. If using water, 3x the volume of the pot in ph stable water phd to 6.8 followed by an immediate feed (immediate as in same day) my plants always look great the day after a flush. It can be time consuming but worth the effort.
Ill let you know when I harvest a pretty leafed plant, its not happened yet.
You are most welcome my friend.
Last plant all kindsa happy.
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@Docnraq As always. Thank you for your input. Very helpful at easing my worries.
Ok so I got the Photone and fix the lights a bit.
On this side light is at 75% the dli is 50 in the middle. Further right goes to 45. As I go left to edge of lamp it stays around 50 due to proximity to the next light next to it.
The baby in the middle she is getting around 46 dli there.
To the left of them the intensity of lights is at 50%. The dli in that area is 40 avg
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I try to avg about 45, seems to work best with the environment in my growspace.
Seems like you have things in hand now.
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@Docnraq from seedling till flowering 45 avg ?
Both lights at 50 % give me 45 avg at the place of my hand
Same line across the tent. Lower the lights 2 or 3 inches and leave it at 50%. ?
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50% why so low?
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@Docnraq Ok. Raised lights. Place them both at 75%. Rearrange the grow set up. Manage to get a avg of 50 dli to the left of tent where the canopy is, of the two late flowering plants. The bigger plant to the right she is a bit taller and that canopy is getting 55 dli at center and corner around 50. The middle plant is at 48. Distance from lights. Between 14 to 16 inches.
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I got mine all stacked on stuff too.
The auto’s will hopefully stretch a bunch in the 12/12 light and I can get them off the pedestals. Never done auto at 12/12, the DLI is low like 25 or 30 but if they stretch some it will get better.
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Yeah trying to get it as even as posible. And if that avg 50 dli is too much. Will have to take the crates out and do them on floor. I have reached the limit raising the lights. Got the filter inside tent taking the top space.
I saw someone mention something about it on another post. What’s your opinion of freezer drying. Something like this below.
( Dry for a few days first till just the outside of the buds are dry. Then to put in the freezer till the stems of the buds snap. Handle easy and let them get to room temperature. At that point do you put the buds in the mason jars for storage. )
Is this posible and faster ?
So no burping? How long do you freeze it for, hours or minutes? Does freezing break down the chlorophyll? Other wise I’d think you’d need to off-gas that.
But I’m interested if others have done it and what they thought! Good question @Randyrican 
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So far I read that the curing and drying happens at the same time. Handle carefully when frozen due to trichomes could fall off. But once is thawed is ready to store and smoke. And the smoothest smoke. And is all done is as little as a day.