Lighting Platinum p900's

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I have seen a lot on here about Platinum p300's but very little on the higher output units so I thought I would share. I am nearing completion of my first grow and early on decided to try to go all out on it. I am using a 5' X 5' grow tent with 2-Platinum p900 lights, running RDWC with 6 pots and a 10 gal res. This gives me about 100L of water, all pots and the res have air stones. I initially started with 6 plants but lost one part way through to my own newby mistake but have recovered and all is well. The girls are a strong auto sativa and at Day 66 are pushing 4-4 1/2 feet tall with me doing all I can to hold them down. The largest issue I have had with the p900's has been weight, I has to reinforce my tent just a bit as I was forced to rearrange the lights.As I have been fighting such height issues I have had to move them a lot because I am keeping them VERY close to the plants to keep them from stretch as much as possible, close enough that I have burned a lot of leaf tips in the process. As you can see in the pics though that has not slowed things down much at all and it has made the colas huge.

At this point I have to give the p900's a resounding vote of approval. They are well made and have done a great jos growing me some wonderful and sticky new girls the first time out of the gate.
 

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I see some leaf cupping on a few leaves that shows lights may be to close.Those lights are very strong so having them to close to slow stretch will do more damage and thats not good.You can always gently tie the tallest colas down a bit with twine to give them more distance from your light.
 
Thanks @namvet25 I have been trying everything I can think of to keep them under control without hurting them. Getting close to the end so it's pretty much moving lights everyday to try and prevent burning them up. The one light is just about maxed out on height and the other only has about 6" left. For now I'm pulling them all the way to the outside and tilting them sideways at about 45 deg to increase the distance and save what little room I have left.
 
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