alright, thank you everyone for the advice. so the consensus seems to be that the light is too close. the reason i've been putting the light so close is because there are other plants being flowered, and the further i keep the light the more those smaller plants stretch. i hate the site of it, every day i walk into the closet those plants are another inch taller, and i'm trying to deal with space limitations here. i suppose there's no point in fighting it, seems like i'm causing more damage than i'm preventing. one last question, is that amount of damage going to have any significant effect on the yield and/or quality of the bud? thanks guys.