It’s been a decade since my last grow…

Lettuce looks good. What's your DLI on those? I'm going to drop some Habaneros into the corners of my tent when I start my next go. Peppers like lots of light and a heat profile that seems similar to what my tent does. I'm also going to cold stratify and germinate some rose seeds. Because.
 
Lettuce looks good. What's your DLI on those? I'm going to drop some Habaneros into the corners of my tent when I start my next go. Peppers like lots of light and a heat profile that seems similar to what my tent does. I'm also going to cold stratify and germinate some rose seeds. Because.

what do you mean by DLI?

its nice to have a few extra things in the tent.
 
what do you mean by DLI?

its nice to have a few extra things in the tent.

DLI is the Daily Light Integral. The number is calculated by the PAR your plants are getting from your lights then calculated with the amount of light per day. Plants have a certain amount of total light they want to see in a given day. More than that, you're throwing away $$$ on your electricity or possibly stressing the plants and less than they want they don't produce or stay as healthy.


Photone has a nice DLI calculator on their site for cannabis and other growables:

 
DLI is the Daily Light Integral. The number is calculated by the PAR your plants are getting from your lights then calculated with the amount of light per day. Plants have a certain amount of total light they want to see in a given day. More than that, you're throwing away $$$ on your electricity or possibly stressing the plants and less than they want they don't produce or stay as healthy.


Photone has a nice DLI calculator on their site for cannabis and other growables:

Thanks
 
I need to get a light meter. I’m just getting back into this after many years and I always did outdoor grows. Indoor consisted of just starting plants.

If you're a cell phone person there's a couple decent apps which are cheap and can get you in the ballpark. I'm just using the Photone app which will tell you lux, PPFD, DLI. Depending on the phone & its camera hardware, it's supposed to be pretty accurate.
 
I too have grown lettuce and they need very little light compared with say corm or weed

nice grow fingers crossed
 
If you're a cell phone person there's a couple decent apps which are cheap and can get you in the ballpark. I'm just using the Photone app which will tell you lux, PPFD, DLI. Depending on the phone & its camera hardware, it's supposed to be pretty accurate.
Nice I’ll check it out
 
In a week or two, once I harvest and dry the Autos I'm doing I'm going to start some hot peppers along with my next batch of seeds. They can take over 100 days to ripe, so sort of the same timeline.

nice. If it’s space that’s open why not. It would just be waste anyways.
 
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Post pepper pics when you have that going if you don’t mind. I’ve debated trying that in the past but just grow them outdoor each year.

Will do. I'll be going with a few habanero style peppers...they stay small and produce in quantity. They also don't need a ton of water, and like lots of light. Keeping them to 24" or less and compact is important, so none of the bigger stuff (my Aji Lemon Drops grew to about 3.5' this year outdoors). Tucked into the corners of my tent they should have sufficient light and it may still be brighter than they want.
 
Will do. I'll be going with a few habanero style peppers...they stay small and produce in quantity. They also don't need a ton of water, and like lots of light. Keeping them to 24" or less and compact is important, so none of the bigger stuff (my Aji Lemon Drops grew to about 3.5' this year outdoors). Tucked into the corners of my tent they should have sufficient light and it may still be brighter than they want.
Sorry to hijack your thread Balzac89, but you have the kale going inside so it’s a little relevant.
Habaneros like it hot too. Seems no matter how early or late I start them inside, they just kind of stay in stasis once they are in the ground outside until late July. Then it gets hot and they explode. I’ve grown them in both SoCal and Michigan and observed the same thing. Curious to see if you can get them really going inside at the temp range pot plants like. They are remarkably tolerant to being under watered. I grew three colors of them this year.
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