First grow advice please

[pushit]

i have misted my plants every morning under 1000 watts for the last fifteen years and never had one burned leaf. please do not offer information that is at best hear say. if you had actually misted your plants under light you would find out that what your saying is crap. people are on this forum to learn how to grow. if you have no valid info to offer, then dont respond, please! think about how much stronger the suns light intensity is compared to your grow lamp. there is no comparison. do you see plants burning up in the sun every morning when they are covered with dew? i dont think so. a more complicated explanation is how a water droplet refracts light. its not a magnifying glass. it does not focus light to a single point. sounds like your doing the right things with your ph. be sure to test the ph of your water after you have added nutrients. if your water ph is 6.5-7.0, its likely that when you add nutes to the water your ph will drop to around 4.0-4.5. most nutrients are on the acidic side. peace and good growingimp::rastasmoke:

Heres a little something I found for ya. I would share the link but the mods will just delete it. It's really not about misting the plants it more of when the best time to do it. Will it burn your plants? Maybe. Is there a chance? Yes.

Scientists have finally confirmed what gardeners have long claimed: Water droplets can burn certain plants at the wrong time of day

It's part of the entrenched mythology of the gardening world: if you water your plants in the hot midday sun, the droplets can act as a magnifying glass and burn the leaves. But until now, science had been unable to confirm the folklore as fact.





"The problem of light focusing by water droplets adhered to plants has never been thoroughly investigated, neither theoretically, nor experimentally", said Dr. Gabor Horvath of Hungary's Eotvos University.

Determined to discover the truth, Horvath and his team of researchers conducted a series of computer and experimental studies on the problem, with surprising results. The studies confirmed that plants can be sunburnt from water droplets â?? and people can too.

The connection lies in the types of plants most susceptible to getting burned. It turns out that water droplets on a smooth surface, such as maple or ginkgo leaves, cannot cause leaf burn. But plants with hairy leaves, such as the small wax hairs of floating ferns, tend to hold water droplets in focus above the leaf surface, magnifying the sunlight. The same principle holds true for water held above hairy human skin after bathing.

Researchers also considered if the same process could potentially start a fire if the light-focusing occurred over dried-out vegetation, but their results were mixed. While fires are theoretically possible, there are some natural factors that make them less likely.

"The likelihood [of a fire starting] is reduced as the water drops should evaporate before this, so these claims should be treated with a grain of salt," concluded Horvath.

Nevertheless, the study was clear about what gardeners and poolside loungers have long known. During times when the sun is most intense, it would be wise to keep yourself and your plants dry.

Sorry for the thread jack

[Weezard]

Good post, Push.
And Sativaforever knows what he's talking about.
A 1K HPS at the proper height will do little harm.
The same goes for morning, and evening sunlight.

At mid day, it is possible to to create tiny sunbleached dots with large water globs resting on the cystoliths and trichs.
This I have seen.

They are of little consequence.

So, mist if you must, just don't overdo when the RH is high.
And only at lights on.
Slowed evaporation invites mildew and mold, yah?

Aloha,
Weezard

[captaincrunch]

can you scroq? if starting with clones ?