You should just get this grow light FECiDA UFO LED Grow Light Dimmable, Premium Grow Lights for Indoor Plants, Ideal Full Spectrum Plant Growing Lamp for Seed Starting, Seedlings, Veg, Succulents https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C5S8ZWP/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_XJCXAP8MSSKBTHH5GQ0Y?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
I would be using the 60 watt light rather than the 110 watt in a 5 gallon bucket.
It's the blurple lighting spectra itself that can cause this sort of dwarfing (not all cannabis strains react the same to blue light). High amount of blue light without green light found in blurple can cause dwarfing in some plants.
Look at /u/ekrof recent submissions. He's doing a very high power grow but he's using a white light (lots of green light in it) so he may get a bit of leaf cupping but it's not shrinking his internodes as much.
If you can return your 110 watt light, get this 60 watt dimming white UFO instead that gives about 25% more light per watt than the older UFO lights.
Yeah, I hope it's safe with an external driver inside. Looks like the design is generic:
It looks like the heat exhaust is through the metal core PCB so it will be blowing directly down on the plant rather than to the side.
I'm going to do a side by side comparison next to a 65 watt HLG quantum board.
I think light manufactures are reading what takes place on the Reddit corner, they're actually making UFO's to fit the tops of bucket builds and even making them dimmable...
Get a ufo grow light. Cheap on amazon. FECiDA UFO LED Grow Light... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C5S8ZWP?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
FECiDA UFO LED Grow Light... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C5S8ZWP?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
FECiDA Lampe Horticole LED UFO600, Dimmable Lampe Croissance Plante Interieur, Lampe de Culture, Lampe Pour Plante Semis Floraison https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B09C5S8ZWP/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_W11VKS1K035PA6NFG5MY
Similar to this light? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C5S8ZWP
As per the manual: At 80% power: Seedlings and clones and Veg: 14-18 inches. Flower: 12-14 inches
You're probably going to want a more powerful light when you get to flower.
No, it is not going to be powerful enough. Use this instead:
Get the newer, dimming white UFO's. Start off at about 1/3rd power.
Or do a PAR38 build:
She's grown well without any problems (*knock on wood*). I did one topping, and she got very bushy. I had to do a little trimming.
I don't see anything specifically wrong with my plant, I was expecting a few preflowers by now. Do you think that's coming soon?
Details:
Sweet Skunk Fast F1
About 6 weeks old, First sprout: 3/22. Just under a foot tall.
Space bucket, 65 watt UFO lamp https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C5S8ZWP
75% power, ~15 inches from top of canopy, 19 hours on. About 85 F in the bucket, 40% rh.
Three gallon smart bucket. FFOF Soil with a little extra perlite and diatomaceous earth. Only watered with rain barrel water for the first month. Just her started on Emerald Harvest at the "transition" phase.
Here is one UFO we've been trying out lately: https://www.amazon.com/FECiDA-Dimmable-Premium-Spectrum-Succulents/dp/B09C5S8ZWP/
And here's the usual fans: https://www.amazon.com/Wathai-Axial-110V-Brushless-Cooling/dp/B07SDDSCY1/
Don't forget to have fun!
I'm using two 80 MM fans (they fit perfectly on the spacers) and I have an irreversible exhaust fan on the UFO lamp (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C5S8ZWP). Right now that exhaust fan is really just "battling" that light fan.
So I'm going to add another fan but I'm just not sure where. On the top level with the light? Or the second green spacer on the left side of the picture.
Does the thickness of the fan matter at all? The two fans I have now are 25 mm thick. I've seen only 10 mm fans.
My buckets will look pretty one of these days :(