I mentioned it in my last grow actually. It’s why I have reptile lights in my tent. I found a decent one and it’s just kinda chilling in the corner like the sun at a 3’ distance. ATM I don’t have a way to move it closer. It’s as low as the cord can go and it’ll be on the floor shining up to the ceiling instead if I went from the bottom vent to feed the cord like my fans and humidifier at are ground level are.
I’ll find a way. I know the lights I found won’t be great for the finish line, but so far it seems it may be better than my current lights even though they’re 185w altogether and the 45w actually pulls 45w with a 3x3 footprint and the combo pack are also both 45w lights with a 3x3 footprint. They’re almost exactly what she wants to make, so as a compromise until we can diy a macro white LED from larger diodes rather than micro sized ones for ra compact light we’ll grab those and save up for a solstrip. Rather than all at once if I’m spending 200 I’ll just get a solstrip for that price. A tiny bit over won’t break the bank and if I’m compromising for 200 I’ll just spend like 20 more for a solsheet. @Baudelaire recommended 2 solsheet x or 2 solstix racks to cover the footprint of my tent properly. That’ll be around 400 and that’s assuming free shipping. I said 500 to cover overhead in case it wasn’t free shipping if I got them both at once.
@MomOnTheRun thanks for the light suggestion, but I’m definitely going to grab a solstrip for the 200 range if I had that much to spend and I’d grab the other half of the lights when I could after. The only good thing about what I’m doing is when I do get my solstrips I’ll have a light for seedling propagation.
If anyone read this far I also adjusted my lights in hopes of a better light spread. At least in lumens it is. IDK if the visual of a better light coverage equates to better par in my case. IDK if what I did is going to make it worse or better, but the plants are all reaching as my lights can’t cover a 3x3 properly. 2x2 is where I don’t see stretching and before I changed the lights they just wanted only one side of the tent to reach towards. Usually the right where I have my reptile bulb which makes me wonder how much par the UV light is giving in compared to all the lights in the plants faces.