I've decided to downsize my OP, not that it was BIG to begin with. 4 plants to 2 and going to try LED again.
My question is,:can I transition form a 1K HPS to a 400 watt LED in the middle of bloom (as long as leaf temps are kept in line) without stressing them to hermi?
I suggest you do not switch to LED mid flower. If it were me I would finish this run with the HPS and start with LED next run. You won't be happy with the results by switching to LED mid flower.
I suggest you do not switch to LED mid flower. If it were me I would finish this run with the HPS and start with LED next run. You won't be happy with the results by switching to LED mid flower.
Evidence suggests our plants are just photoperiod. The LED will give a more summer-like spectrum, but that doesn't seem to be a flowering trigger. There will be different morphology triggers, but work with the IR you will loose, never seems to amount to anything regarding flowering response. The big change will be heat and how it influences fluid movements. Seen as Calcium issues mainly.
All this aside, I have had plants sensitive to the slightest changes. I would go ahead and change it though, for the knowledge.
No... actually. I changed my mind. It's going to be easier, much easier, to adjust your environment in veg. Where you don't have a ticking clock. I don't know your room well enough to say go ahead now. It's safer in veg, where you can win them back around after correcting any issues. In flower, you just don't have time
I would only change now, if you have major heat issues and a heatwave coming
I'm forming a similar opinion. Where substrates high in Calcium are used, some good yields are being seen. Pebbles are a lot of calcium but I'm unsure what a waterfarm is.Changing light during the grow will delay things ,the plant will have to adjust to the brutal change in spectrum and temp.
As for the calcium issue under leds it seems to be a coco related problem.
When i whent back to growing in pure hydro (clay peebles and waterfarms constant irrigation) all problems vanished.