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[FunkyButtLovin]

After checking out your strain at AMS it appears that it's a short, bushy plant so I doubt you're going to see a lot of stretch anyway.

Here's mine as it sits right now. 10" to top of pot, 33" to tallest top of front center plant (5" stretch in 16 days), 44" to bottom of reflector (12" above, not 18" sorry), 60" to top of reflector. I have 12" of vertical adjustment left before I have to remove the ratchet to gain another 5" if necessary. I also have between 1-8.5" of additional adjustment of each plant by lowering them. These plants were all vegged between 10 and 14 weeks and I could have let them go straight up for another week or so without worry that I would run out of room.

[JDU]

They are in 7gal shorts 9in tall. The mark on the pole is 18in above that. Tent is almost 7ft & takin hangers into consideration the lights Max height will be 4in less.

[FunkyButtLovin]

How about a frontal photo of your tent opened up so we can see the whole interior from floor to ceiling? How tall are your pots and how tall are the tallest tops from soil? I think you have a lot more room than you think you do but it's hard to judge by the angle of the pics. Our tents are the same height I believe. If you want to for comparison, I wall take pics and measurements of my pots/plants/lights/etc. and post them here in 1 hour when the light comes on to give you a better idea of how much vertical space you really have to work with. My plants are on risers, my light/reflector is 16" tall and about 18" above the plants, I'm 2 weeks into flowering and I still have a lot of height left.

[JDU]

Ok well then I'm gonna go with my gut & flip the switch tonight unless I get reasonable feedback to the contrary. & I would really appreciate some input on why Greenie in the corner can be showin signs of nute deficiency grown in the same soil as the others?

[JDU]

Well I thought they had another 6-8 inches to grow before 12s but it turns out the lights might burn them at the manufacturer's recommended height of12-18in. So should I flip them sooner for this 1st run while I play with them & learn the sweet spot? & if the tops are only 6in tall now does that mean I'll be lucky to get branches taller than a foot on which to form buds? ☹

[JDU]

So far they are lovin their new light & fresh soil... growin like they mean it..... But Greenie back there in the corner looks to have a nute problem. She's in the same dirt, gettin the same ph water & light as the others.... Growth don't seem stunted & she ain't drinkin any more or less.... she just don't look right. What do y'all think is goin on?

[JDU]

All spread out & turned up!! This is the 1st n last time I do this style manifold- (1st manifold at all actually) Big Red was a lot taller than the others & I had to lay her way down to get them all pretty level. She is now 2ft square. Side to side, end to end & corner to corner. 2ft. I couldn't have fit 4 of them under the light.

[JDU]

Thanks Budgal. I do. I really do!!! Soooooo much better'n T5s

[SoOrbudgal]

Yea JDU hope you like that light

[JDU]

Haha could be!!

[FunkyButtLovin]

It is if they're 8" too close I reckon.

[JDU]

Nevermind.
I was in there monkeyin around & noticed they had grown quite a bit. I raised the light 7-8in..... back to 26in. I also wonder if switching from T5s to high power LED might be rough on em.

[JDU]

So I'm gettin some curled leaves on one plant. It just started about the time I hung the new light but I have it 26in from the plants & my tent temp has gone way down....?? Any thoughts?

[JDU]

Oh Ok those look nice. 18" sounds a lot shorter than it looks lol

[BaccaRacca]

Those are some fine looking Future Colas of America, FunkyButt.