GreatLife4All
New Member
With the addition of the new digital ballasts with configurable light intensities... I was just curious if anyone had played around with lowering the intensity of the light during late bloom, early ripening stage.
It would seem that by doing this you are more closely modeling an outdoor grow (I am willing to admit this may not be a goal). In the fall, both the color of the light shifts (from blue to red), and the intensity of the light falls off (we are farther from the sun and the light passes through more of the atmosphere).
With the old magnetic ballasts, one would have had to swap out the bulb and the ballast both. But today, you can simply flip a switch and get the same effect.
So, has anyone played around with actually lowering the intensity of light during the late stages of flowering? And if so, did it have any effect?
It would seem that by doing this you are more closely modeling an outdoor grow (I am willing to admit this may not be a goal). In the fall, both the color of the light shifts (from blue to red), and the intensity of the light falls off (we are farther from the sun and the light passes through more of the atmosphere).
With the old magnetic ballasts, one would have had to swap out the bulb and the ballast both. But today, you can simply flip a switch and get the same effect.
So, has anyone played around with actually lowering the intensity of light during the late stages of flowering? And if so, did it have any effect?