too close to light ?

medichronic

Active Member
so this is my mainlined critical sensi star, I veged her for 4weeks in pre-bagged tga super soil and been feeding with EWC tea. today is day 14 of 12/12 and she is 14" from the 2- 400w ledS in my 4foot tall tent, I really hope shes done streaching but if not how close can she get befor bleaching or any other negative effects ? this is my first attempt at LEDS. it has been awesome so far and looking forward to finishing her happy and healthy, just getting alittle nervous about how close to the lights she is. any input will be awesome thanks for all the helpView attachment 2917515View attachment 2917516View attachment 2917517
 

mc130p

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I wouldn't get them closer than 6 inches, but it's hard to say. It could be more like 12 inches or higher for a minimal distance to the lights, and depends on several different factors regarding your light. Does the light manufacturer have any recommendations? Also, if I had your setup, I'd angle the lights so that they both face toward the plant, instead of having them hanging horizontally. That's my 2 cents:)
 

dude9000

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She looks good. You probably have another week of stretching. I usually use 21 days as a generic number for stretching, some strains are different than others obviously.
I'd either start training her or consider going vertical with the lighting like mc suggested with a couple CFLs on top for cold spots. It doesn't look like you have much room on the sides so I'd probably start training her.

I used to use fishing line or string over whatever really with washers to put weight on the branches I wanted to train. Start off with just a couple, then add a couple each day to widen her stance. You want to add just a little weight every or every other day so she slowly gets strong enough to hold the weight and make the stance permanent. Be sure to add them slowly to aviod snaping her in half. This also helps streghnthen the branches for heavy buds so you don't have to tie them up later on ;)
I haven't used LEDs yet but I'm sure the basics are similar.
She looks great!
 

medichronic

Active Member
thanks everybody, silky, its about 12' now and there are 2-400watt lights on top and you are right no nutes in super soil but I have found that I get better results when I feed the soil alittle EWC tea and some molasses after the first month of flower
 
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