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Olive Drab Green

Olive Drab Green

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..Just so you know, unless your seed's genetics are shit, light leaks are irrelevant. As long as no light radiation is right on top of your plants, you're fine. I have a crack above a curtain rod that lets in a good amount of light, but the rays hit a small portion of the edge of the ceiling. No herm or reveg yet. Also fully flowered GDP in a closet with a curtain over it that fell short and exposed the bottom branches while I was watching TV and playing videogames with the lights on in the same room. No herm or reveg there, either.
 
MadGreek

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Olive Drab Green said:
..Just so you know, unless your seed's genetics are shit, light leaks are irrelevant. As long as no light radiation is right on top of your plants, you're fine. I have a crack above a curtain rod that lets in a good amount of light, but the rays hit a small portion of the edge of the ceiling. No herm or reveg yet. Also fully flowered GDP in a closet with a curtain over it that fell short and exposed the bottom branches while I was watching TV and playing videogames with the lights on in the same room. No herm or reveg there, either.
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Bullshit.
 
MadGreek

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Worry about light leaks. Good seeds/clones or not. They will herm your plants out, make them foxtail, give you a lighter harvest, etc.

Anyone saying they "haven't been affected by light in their garden" simply hasn't grown enough to ruin a crop that way, or their completely, completely, completely full of shit. Completely.
 
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Olive Drab Green said:
How do you guys think cannabis deals with moonlight? The moon doesn't put out light, it reflects sunlight.
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The plants genetics are used to this ambient light. Its a cycle. If you watch them closely they stretch during full moon blooming, then build girth during new moon cycle.

Light leaks are NOT moonlight. Unless you can match luminescence, spectrum, and phases that doesn't matter in an indoor garden.
 
MadGreek

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Just do it by the book. Period. You will be successful. And DONT rely on forums for answers. Look it up in a book. Forums are full of rumors made to be some peoples reality. Works great for some guy qith a closet garden. Not the way to grow commercially.
 
MadGreek

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Let me put it this way:

Youre building a giant beautiful indoor garden, then relying on the guy who lets light leak into his closet garden on his (first grow probably) to give you advice.

That is like taking thermodynamics and asking your grade school math teacher for help with the calculus.
 
MadGreek

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adower said:
I would agree with you depending on size of the container. It also depends on genetics too You are hard pressed to get 1-2 lb out of a 2 gal pot for an og as they just don't yield. However people are getting 2 units a light with gg#4 indoor. However big 25 gallon bags I can't see why you wouldn't easily achieve that. There are outdoor people getting 10 lb a plant.
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My rockwool friends are growing up to 20 pounds of OG with 12,000 watts. But they use 4 plants per light and rockwools slabs, and they veg for 21 days. But yes, OG plants don't stretch-bloom like Trainwreck or Blue Dream, so they have to be vegged longer.
 
Olive Drab Green

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MadGreek said:
Worry about light leaks. Good seeds/clones or not. They will herm your plants out, make them foxtail, give you a lighter harvest, etc.
Anyone saying they "haven't been affected by light in their garden" simply hasn't grown enough to ruin a crop that way, or their completely, completely, completely full of shit. Completely.
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You're wrong. Completely. You only have to worry abour herms if your heat is high or your genetics are unstable. I have never had a herm and I have plenty of light leaks.

If you were correct, all reveg plants abd monster crops would herm.
 
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MadGreek

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And the bullshit about seed genetics is hilarious.

The best genetic strains have a tendency to banana at their final phase of bloom. Before colloidal silver came around we simply stressed the FUCK out of our blooming females to make the herm out.

So dispensing so called advice about strains and light leaks is like fingernails down a chalkboard. Bull fucking shit.
 
bravedave

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Sure! Do your best to stop your light leaks. That said, its my understanding and experience that NOT achieving perfection will never cause a hermie or foxtail. Old greek wives tale used to scare children.
 
Olive Drab Green

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To all of you out there, this guy is supporting an idea that was held as truth before the rapid advancement of the science with legalization. I have never completely light proofed my grow room, and I've never had a single herm. It is purely genetics. I also go in my grow room after lights out and turn a light on to retrieve things multiple times a day. No bananas yet.
 
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