Looking good.
Nice training! Have you considered defoliation, removing some of the fan leaves to get more light on the new growth?
Here is a thread with information and a nice how to so you may remove unnecessary leaves with confidence
Increasing yield with defoliation indoors: What's it mean? How to do it?
I have my Mars 1200 pretty close to the ceiling of my veg tent, and my plants are on the floor. Same with my 16's in the flower tent. Seedlings get started on a table, and then when they move into #1 pots, they get set on the floor. Several feet away from the light, no stretching. Plants are growing pretty much exactly the way I want them too.
I think the reason 18-24" is suggested is so all of the spectrums can mix and your plant can get it all. The thought is that is it's too close, the plant might not be getting the full spectrum and you don't really know then what part it's getting.
I like not needing to mess with the light all the time. I have a lot of plants so having the light just set and no need to move it is ideal for me
As you can see I have several feet between the canopy and the light
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heya, cheers sweetleaf
i was reading and asking ppl who grow auto's and i found out if you put to much stress on the plant you'll have bad harvest but some guys did (defoliantion, transplantig,toppin, etc.) and they had good results to, but now depends of strains , skills, etc.
I will try to keep simple my grow, without to stress to much my plants and make them happy
Now about LED , thank you for sharing your information and i agree with you to keep the LED at manufacturer recommendations (they know more stuff and test before to sell to us ) and i put mine at 16 inch today
have a nice day
no worries, i'm happy you share information here, this was my ideea to mix my grow journal with a lot of information from growersYep, sorry,
I forgot we were talking about autos. I have found that once they are flowering, you can remove a few fans that are blocking the buds. I wouldn't remove more then probably 3-4 wait a day and then 3-4 more. I have always just let my autos be and I've had a 6.3ozauto and a 17gram atuo.
Once I get my veg and flower cycles going, I will do a run of autos that I plant to put through the ringer. Growing several autos I get the feeling they are a lot more resilient than they are giving credit for! The ruderalus is from Siberia, so I think they are fought little buggers.
I'm hoping by march or april to do another run with a bunch of autos. maybe 6 autos 3 from 2 strains. Have one of each that gets no training, one of each that gets heavy defol regularly and one that get's LST'd like a boss. It will be fun to see what these plants are made of. My gut feeling is that the autos that get messed with will produce better.
I would have to agree with the Welshmen in this case though. Thanks for catching that Wild! I did not mean to pass along a bad suggestion.
. from one of my plants , and I'll report back how the plant react )
