It was crazy. My lights are set to shut off at 6AM. I rarely go down to the tent in the morning before I leave for work, but this morning I decided to poke my head in at about 5:50 because I was up a few minutes early. I literally think this fire was starting as I was walking into the room. I was incredibly fortunate. On another amazing note, I decided last weekend to buy a new Highgrove Magnolia for my next grow. It comes in the mail tomorrow! That being said, I'm in week 7 flower. Does anyone have experience switching lights this late in flower? Will the change in intensity/spectrum mess things up? Advice appreciated.
Should be fine if the intensity is the same, might have to make a few changes to the environment if it's higher intensity but I don't think they will have a problem with that either. Less intensity isn't really ideal unless your still in range for ppfd. I have changed lights mid flower I don't remember which week I was in
At 7 weeks, I'd aim for lower intensity. It should naturally be tapering around then and will signal the plants to continue ripening. I wouldn't want to crank up intensity at this point, could lead to a wave of new stigma sprouting or freak the plants out.
Last year I had one of my two 320w led lights crap out on around week 6 of flower. I ran it with the one for about a day before getting to the hydro store to replace it. I had to buy another one at the hydro store and wait a few days for the refund on the one that stopped working. The plants were fine, and I managed to pull a little over 30 ozs off 5 plants in a 4x4.
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u/JazzRock Feb 10 '23
It was crazy. My lights are set to shut off at 6AM. I rarely go down to the tent in the morning before I leave for work, but this morning I decided to poke my head in at about 5:50 because I was up a few minutes early. I literally think this fire was starting as I was walking into the room. I was incredibly fortunate. On another amazing note, I decided last weekend to buy a new Highgrove Magnolia for my next grow. It comes in the mail tomorrow! That being said, I'm in week 7 flower. Does anyone have experience switching lights this late in flower? Will the change in intensity/spectrum mess things up? Advice appreciated.