Yup: there’s your problem. Some autos will produce less dense flower as well so doing a changeup to photos and a decent HLG light would set you up well.
I despise every light company that lies about their performance. This light might have Samsung diodes but if so they are inferior to the ones HLG uses.
Keep the light as a starter light for young plants and seedlings.
I looked up the light on Amazon. I just love that the photo of their testing center in the “About us” section is titled “Quanlity Control” (sic). I wouldn’t put another of these in, even if it would solve your problem. Man’s got to have standards, and dealing with crooks just doesn’t fit into that paradigm.
Great light for that budget would be the HLG 260W XL Rspec, if you can work a screwdriver and wire strippers, comes as a kit and needs some easy assembly. Using the discount code of “dude” it’s just under $300 at horticulturelightinggroup dot com.
Have to agree with everyone else you need better lighting. If cash is an issue and I think we all can understand that, get another less efficient light if you can’t afford a HLG, I had good results using the new viparspec xs-1500, but that’s was 1 plant in a 2x2, your in a 4x2 I don’t know the specs of the light u have, I would guess it can cover a 2x2 footprint. If you don’t have enough to get 1 light to cover that area, get 2, you may not get the results you are looking for but it would help. Also you said you don’t have time to ph, or feed properly, so if you do get a better light but you don’t feed or ph correctly you are just wasting you money. How do you expect to get good results if you can’t ph your water of feed your plant what it needs? Not to mean but that to means seems like common sense, I would hate for you to spend money on a better light, because a better light means your plants will need more Nutes because it will have better photosynthesis which means it will be needing more. You said KISS method which is great, but ph watering and feeding correctly are what i think are pretty basic principles, best of luck
I appreciate the advice - I should have been more clear.
I do ph the water consistently.
some days /weeks are so rushed it feels like I struggle to make time for the tent, I would hate to start a more involved feeding schedule just to not be able to keep up time wise.
Investing a bit more into the hobby to make it not seem like a waste of time and money is the reason for this post so I am all ears
I’m sorry for the misunderstanding, then yeah probably upgrading your lighting. Like said above I had used others lights. None as efficient as my HLG but they did do there job. You could run this with the light u have now and not to $
I had the smaller xs1500 the boards aren’t as good, mine ran on the off side, but it’s has the Samsung 301 diodes, good color spectrum, and meanwell driver. So name brand parts, there other options
