Ok. Plant that I showed the picture of is looking better. It's standing further straight (leaves pointed even more upwards) Yellowing seems to have stopped, and I think it may have grown 1-2mm. I don't know for sure because I didn't measure it before, but even a little growth is good growth.

My other plant that's having problems is still drooping really bad. Leaves are dark green and lush looking (still only 2 sets of leaves). To be fair I kept watering this plant on the schedule I had going (once every other day). I did this so that way I would know for sure that it was the watering (watch one get worse, watch one get better).

I will leave the main plant completely dry for a day or two. I suspect there's still some moisture in there (going to buy a few meters and a soil test kit today).


I also had an idea. If you look at my pictures below that's my current setup. You can't tell from the pic, but the shelf is about 6 feet across. The lower shelf is 2 feet high. The upper shelf can go all the way up to the ceiling if needed.

If you look at the picture you'll see 2 ballasts with 2 40 watt cool lights in them each.. 160watts of light. I also have a third ballast that I have not hung because it just didn't fit in the lower shelf.

What I was thinking of was drilling a small hole on the side of the ballast (there's a lip that curves out to the side similar to a reflector) and hanging the ballast side ways to face the plants. Then I can use my third ballast to do the same on the other side of the plant.. effectively hitting it with light from 3 directions.

I know I'll only be able to do this for a short amount of time, Until the side leaves grow out to be < 1" away from the lights, but my idea is that this would kind of act as a sort of LST without having to tie it down all the time.

Really my concern is using fluorescents and the lumen output, but for me heat is an issue I'm trying to avoid since the closet is in such a small space and it would be hard to vent so I can't get MH (when combine with HPS I will use for flowering the heat may be too much for me to control cost effectively). Currently there's 6400 lumens shining from the 4 40watt lights (by my calculations). And it's not direct light, only 3200 of that is direct.

By my calculations 160watts of flouro's put out aboe sideways that would be 9600 lumens hitting the plants directly. Still not alot I know, but it's better than nothing at all. Sort've like an LST but without having to actually tie anything down?

Thoughts on this?




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