Can too much light reduce sugar?

OK Rollers.... I gotta know... I am runing ChemD this run and have lots of light.. the ladies are looking good.. they are in week 7 and are not all that sugary and don't have much smell... anyone else whom grew ths did you have the same results? Did it happen week 8 or 9? Looks like buds under leaves and away from light have more sugar.... Let me know... Dounut

Although I won't go on record as saying this is gospel or anything, but I have witnessed a reduction in the trichome amounts and overall smell when the lights were too close. I think this is a combination of simply too much light AND leaf temperatures that are too high. The termpines will offgas when temps are in the 80's. With your light that close,I would have to think your temps are approaching that.

You should be shooting for like 60-70k lux readings at the plant. When your in then 80-100K area, you have damaging amounts of light. Summer time sunny day is in the 60 range if I remember correctly.

Looks banging in there though!!

What are you feeding them?

that is a sweet grow room. Is that a aero system or what you got going? Looks like they may of had a def or something judging my colors of the leaves.

Hey You guys.. thanks for responding.... Burr I am using dutchmaster gold series, a little cal mag and zone for root health... It is a UC system...... Leagally.... I think you may be on to something... these things are getting blasted with light.... I pushed my way into the bush and noticed a cola that was not in direct light, off in the back just getting ambient light... it s frosty and has smell, so I started to lift branches and check underneath and they are frosty... So thanks for reporting.... Donut..

Hey Power... I was responding while you were posting.... It is a 8 site undercurrent system with 13 gallon buckets..... they grow so rapidly that there is no isle down the middle and thats a 4 foot wide path.....

ahhhh you should have said it was an undercurrent system. I just built one myself and I'm waiting to put my clones in there. You NEED to get over to the thcfarmer.com. They have an undercurrent section and it is THE single best source of info for undercurrent grows that I have ever come across. desert squirrel, woodsmeneh, and a couple others I can't remember right now are killing in it in UC.

Uvb light can add some frost.

I found that I did not get much smell and aroma out of RDWC plants when running straight hydro nutes. I added some floralicious plus and saw an increase in smell/frost. Maybe its sulfur, sugars, kelp, I don't know. But straight dynagro did not givem much stink.

I was checking out a friends grow, he puts a little of everything GH has on their expert program in his waterfarms. His weed has awesome smell, although average appearance and yield. He even adds karo corn syup to the hydro mix. I'm not going that far, but food for thought.

As far as lights distance to plants goes, I find that the leaves will show heat stress by getting yellow edges and up curl. I keep them a good 12" above the girls during mid to late flower. They can go a little closer during the first few weeks, cause your plants are transpiring water like crazy.

Thanks for the responses.. I will give them all a try.. Hey legal.... I am on thcfarmer... My alias is Farmseeker.... I made this alias as a joke, well I kept posting with it so I just kept it.... I posted here because there is quite a bit more traffic over here and needed an answer.. Take care and thanks guys!

Hey Burr, in terms of nutrient profiles that help add a little smell, I have found that adding botanicare pure blend bloom can help. not the pure blend pro, but the original. It has quite a bit of organics in it though so I would be VERY careful in terms of managing bacterial outbreaks. I would never ever advise anyone to add any kind of sugars to any DWC grow of any kind. If there are any smoldering negative bacteria in your solution, adding sugars is like throwing gasoline on them. Plus, adding sugars won't do much anyways as the use of sugars is predominantly used to increase biological activity and nutrient fixation.

If you simply must add it though, I would wait until the last two weeks.. that way if things go south your not going to loose everything.