Do you put plants on the edges of the lights?

[SilentFeet]

Obviously most of the light is under the reflector, but there is also light escaping sideways, just less intensity.

Do you think it's worth putting plants out on the edges of the grow where they are getting about 1/3 of the light as the plants under the hood?

Just thinking this could be a way to get more plants per light, although the buds may not develop as well.

 

[idiit]

i'm no expert. I put plants that are finishing at the edge as long as there is sufficient lumens there to allow the buds to finish. I've read that putting bud finishing up too close to the most intense spots can be contra productive for several reasons. I think so too.

 

[seeded]

The outer edges of my garden don't get enough light to produce decent nugs but plants will happily grow there so I use it for seed production and sexing plants. If I wasn't interested in doing that I'd use the space to grow a bunch of larf for concentrates with a heavy focus on indica strains because sativas just stretch too much in the weak light.

 

[mojave green]

Hmmm, Not sure.

 

[SilentFeet]

The outer edges of my garden don't get enough light to produce decent nugs but plants will happily grow there so I use it for seed production and sexing plants. If I wasn't interested in doing that I'd use the space to grow a bunch of larf for concentrates with a heavy focus on indica strains because sativas just stretch too much in the weak light.

Yeah, that's a good idea.
I plan on making some seeds so I will put the seeded female plants on the edge, and leave the light for the one's for buds.

I have a couple of Critical Mass males and they are sitting on the edge but are still growing vigorously.

 

[troutman]

The ones on the outer edges should be turned once in a while.