Okay I upgraded my 100 watt ac infinity ionboard in by 2x2x6 tent with the 240 watt s33 ionboard a few weeks ago. I’ve been running it at 100% intensity at about 20in from the canopy. There were no tacoing leaves throughout that time. Just this past week I’ve notice the top new grow is all starting to taco. I’ve ended up raising the light to about 30 in above the canopy and decreased intensity to about 70-80 percent so that I’m still in the target ppfd range for the plant. Still having the taco leaves. It’s not heat stress the temp in my tent never goes above 76degrees and humidity is constantly maintained at 50%. Do you think the light is just too powerful for this tent? Or could it be the reflection off the Mylar from the bigger light is just more intense? I don’t want to keep dropping my intensity not and not be in the ideal ppfd.
Light stress?
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That’s what I thought. Much appreciated, i dimmed down the intensity to 40%. See how she reacts the next few day. Would you say this is like a mild case of it? I have seen worse on other threads. Just don’t want to damage my plant any further. Also new to growing so any advice helps here.
Yeah I’m in my second week of flower, freaked out a little as well lol that’s why I came to this forum. But I lowered the intensity to 40%, light sits about 24 in from top now and par meter reads just under 500. Definitely won’t be running this light that high again. Thanks for the helpYeah it's mild and it will recover no worries, just go easy on her for abit and don't do that same setting again, do less
Happened to be once just at the beginning of flower!! I freaked out man..but they still came up killer
PadawanWarrior
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pH is my guess here.
Maybe micronutrient deficiency. Or it could just be needing more food with the intense light.
Just my guesses though.
PJ Diaz
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Lots of tip burn in those pics, my guess is your feed is too high, not lighting.
This looks to be the opposite issue, feeding too low.
RIS
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What’s a reasonable ppm? All it’s feedings have been 2-0.25-2 Buddha grow
RIS
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fair enough. Thanks for the reply
well aside from everything, it was a combination of too much light and too low of humidity, I removed the humidifier from the tent about 4weeks ago to start dropping the humidity, I threw it back in the tent last night, taco leaves corrected themselves, this morning I slowly increased the light intensity back up and have seen positive results from the plant. The thought hit me last night to when the leaves started curling which was about 3 weeks ago. So I did some research and threw it back in. Also my soil ph is too low as well, so have some stuff coming today to top dress for the next watering.Yeah it's mild and it will recover no worries, just go easy on her for abit and don't do that same setting again, do less
Happened to be once just at the beginning of flower!! I freaked out man..but they still came up killer
Splinter7
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i have the same light. 2, one in each of my tents. i have on plant that i think doesn't like it at all...or it has some other issue. no issues on the other 6 plants. i am running full blast at about 16 inches. i also have a supplemental 100w of ABIcre red light in each. that is not too much light. no co2. how hot is your tent? the light gets hot. i found blowing a fan on the topside of it helps. also, it's not 240w.
My tent runs no hotter than 78f, I corrected my issues though so far, my humidity was to low in the tent, this was my last post describing it. I have the light now at about 30 in, at 100%, after I threw back in my humidifier the taco leaves subsided, thenleave became a noticeably darker green and I slowly increased the light intensity. Also my soil ph is low as well. It may be something different for you but that was my problem, tent was too dry and the light was burning up the top leaves
“”well aside from everything, it was a combination of too much light and too low of humidity, I removed the humidifier from the tent about 4weeks ago to start dropping the humidity, I threw it back in the tent last night, taco leaves corrected themselves, this morning I slowly increased the light intensity back up and have seen positive results from the plant. The thought hit me last night to when the leaves started curling which was about 3 weeks ago. So I did some research and threw it back in. Also my soil ph is too low as well, so have some stuff coming today to top dress for the next watering.”””
I haven’t bought a wattage meter yet, what watt does your run? I’ve read that it pushes about 270 actual