Just curious what and how everyone is running lights with shrooms and if you care to share.
I've tinkered quite a bit over the last 1.5-2 yrs with my lighting. Started out with old school black box with burned out diodes. Did good..
Upgraded to Photon v2+ running slightly modified brs reccomended schedule for softies. Excellent.
I've tried T5 to supplement but found it to be too much for my shrooms and unplugged it. Are you running T5 on your shrooms? If so what bulbs and par are they sitting under? Either my shrooms are too spoiled with V2+ lighting or I don't have correct bulbs for my application?
I've tried pushing my shrooms and sure I've burned some up.
I've backed my intensity off quite a bit recently and have seen a great reaction.
My floor sits around 50-100par maybe 75par average with even less lighting at ends for even less light hungry shroomz around 35par.
I've elevated my Yumas and St Thomas a little higher to around 125par.
What im finding is shrooms just really don't need alot of par. Majority will thrive in 75 average par. Some even less and some want a little more.
My Photon V2+ schedule
Reds and greens 7-10am ramp to 5%, 5-8pm ramp down.
Whites 7-10am ramp to 15%, 5-8pm ramp down.
Cool blue 7-10am ramp up to 17%, 5-8pm ramp down
Violet and Royal blue 7-10 ramp up to 25%, 5-8pm ramp down.
I've tinkered quite a bit over the last 1.5-2 yrs with my lighting. Started out with old school black box with burned out diodes. Did good..
Upgraded to Photon v2+ running slightly modified brs reccomended schedule for softies. Excellent.
I've tried T5 to supplement but found it to be too much for my shrooms and unplugged it. Are you running T5 on your shrooms? If so what bulbs and par are they sitting under? Either my shrooms are too spoiled with V2+ lighting or I don't have correct bulbs for my application?
I've tried pushing my shrooms and sure I've burned some up.
I've backed my intensity off quite a bit recently and have seen a great reaction.
My floor sits around 50-100par maybe 75par average with even less lighting at ends for even less light hungry shroomz around 35par.
I've elevated my Yumas and St Thomas a little higher to around 125par.
What im finding is shrooms just really don't need alot of par. Majority will thrive in 75 average par. Some even less and some want a little more.
My Photon V2+ schedule
Reds and greens 7-10am ramp to 5%, 5-8pm ramp down.
Whites 7-10am ramp to 15%, 5-8pm ramp down.
Cool blue 7-10am ramp up to 17%, 5-8pm ramp down
Violet and Royal blue 7-10 ramp up to 25%, 5-8pm ramp down.
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