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I find they do pretty well, as long as you can keep some distance from the tops and keep enough power on them the light penetration is better with the lights at a farther distance than being too close also allows more reflection from the tent walls and floor to the lowersBeautiful plants
Thanks for the pics on the bending. For some reason I was imagining having to bend the whole plant from lower down but now you’ve done that it makes perfect sense.
When a plant gets that tall indoors do you ever need supplemental lighting down low? Or do the lower buds do ok as is?
And if you can see the ruler I was at 63” pre wiring and wen down to near 55” after so I gained near 8” of distance from the lights not to mention raising the lights as well
Yea you can bend them lower but at this point the mains are so stiff they’d snap, the knuckles on the topping points below are literally bigger than the knuckles on my hands, the me thing I did find is you want to be super careful when you start LST’ing topped plants, they love to split at the crotch of the topping, sometimes I’ll run a single wire between both of them but when I do that it spreads them lower on the nodes putting more pressure on the knuckle, if you do it this way it leaves no stress on the knuckle, but doing them as a single provide more support later, if you want to do that I suggest making a double looped piece of wire and securing the 2 nodes together about 2-3” above the knuckle that way the support comes form the wire and resists splitting the knuckle in half
And thank you! These plants are making me very happy they are coming along great, just about blemish free leaves minus where a few that were ups giant the walls of the 4x4 in veg for that extra month but I’ll leave them on for now it’s just a Few browned leaf edges down lower can barely find them in these canopies lol