Positioning lights help please

I’ve been vegging one plant in my tent under a mars hydro reflector 96 in a 5 gallon smart pot feeding nectar of the gods nutes in a 30x30x60 tent. when I switched her over to 12/12 on Tuesday I added an additional 300 watt no name led that came with my grow tent (everything was a big package). My question is how would I best position the two lights to be most beneficial for the remainder? I currently have the mars slid back in the tent so it’s not quite centered anymore and then have the smaller one hung closer to the opening down at an angel so it covers more of the plant, both right around 15” from the canopy. I didn’t want to put them directly next to each other to allow for them to both be able to fully Intake air so after sliding it forward I tilted it so as much of the concentration of the light was on the plant as possible. How would you suggest I set them up for optimal coverage to be the most beneficial

Picture included is how I have them now, I can take more pictures or draw a diagram of my setup if that’s needed to help!

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(so I save it for germming or vegging)

good luck

that looks ok imo,

good luck

vostok said:

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(so I save it for germming or vegging)

good luck

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So you’re saying what, take the light out because I’m not sure what brand it is? My thought was that (to a point) the more light the better so I figured adding it wouldn’t hurt

Look at your pic ..... notice the “ hot spot “ area ?
Notice the shadowy corners / fringe area. Nothing says you cannot hang light a full 180 to current position or smaller at rear with larger upfront.

But glaring point is that using BOTH lights you STILL have dark areas running two lamps ( upgrade soon and all will be well ). But working with what you got you will have at least keep 18” over canopy minimum.

IMHO i would thin some of the middle foliage to allow some of the blocked lowers ANY kind of chance to grow out. Tucking leaves too.

Budzbuddha said:

Look at your pic ..... notice the “ hot spot “ area ?
Notice the shadowy corners / fringe area. Nothing says you cannot hang light a full 180 to current position or smaller at rear with larger upfront.

But glaring point is that using BOTH lights you STILL have dark areas running two lamps ( upgrade soon and all will be well ). But working with what you got you will have at least keep 18” over canopy minimum.

IMHO i would thin some of the middle foliage to allow some of the blocked lowers ANY kind of chance to grow out. Tucking leaves too.

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In that picture only the front light is turned on. Here’s the spread from just the mars hydro. I was thinking about this at work today and didn’t have the opportunity to take new pics before positing so I’m just using what I have on my phone currently, unfortunately not including a picture with both lights on as I was showing a friend the different coverage areas of each light to try and get some help before coming here.

Here’s a picture with both lights on. Just wondering if there’s any other positioning that might get me a more even light distribution

I have a similar two-light setup in most of my tents.
Placing them high up and center has generated the best results, both in practice and based on both lumens and par meter.

With one plant, though, you might get more light reflected and a better spread by spacing them out a little bit.
Probably splitting the ceiling area into thirds, with the lights.

Good looking plant by the way.

Good luck!