Look who decided to stop in! Haha, what's up guy. Thanks for the words. Crazy how not too long ago they were just so small, now they are huge. Looking forward to flower very much so
These plants are just going to keep bushing out, and I have triple their height available, so right now I'm gonna keep letting them veg. But that decision vacillates from hour to hour
If I do decide to flower, it will be because I took your vote into consideration, lol. It's my yield though! I've stated I don't really care about yield, but now that I've read so much about gram per watt etc, etc, I want to get as much as I can for running a 1k. Interesting tidbit, I managed to save 20 bucks on my electric this month despite running a 1k grow and AC 24/7. I started turning the water heater off and I haven't used central heat/air. So as far as electricity goes, this grow is basically free considering I'm paying less than I was before I turned anything on. That right there should give me an automatic .25 grams per watt bonus. Will be even less come 12/12,
HPS supports flowering, yes, but what I have read argues that the 12/12 is what initiates the hormonal change, regardless of the light spectrum, and if using a MH lamp during that stretch, stretch can be minimized, because it's still quasi-vegging at that time. After the stretch is when you want to focus on the bud production, which is where the HPS comes in. Lots of people grow straight HPS. Hell, a lot of commercial produce growers run only HPS. Nothing wrong with doing that. I have the option though, so I'm going to use both.
CMH is basically like having a MH and HPS at the same time. I have seen what you talk about, they can crank out super buds. The light spectrum is for sure a full thing, lol. Plants have evolved to make use of the Sun's spectrum, so that's what all lamps effectively strive to emulate. There's a lot of science that goes into it. And it's not like someone made it up, more like discovered. I think Issac Newton discovered a prism separates white light into different colors. Over achiever.
Spectrums are really f'in fascinating because every element has its own spectral fingerprint. So by measuring this, we can tell what something is made of. Be it in a lab or thousands of light years away in another star system. Neon glows one color while argon glows another. A spectrometer splits reflected light into different colors and is able to compare it to a catalog "fingerprint" thus telling you what the substance is. Anyways, a bit off topic...fascinating shit though. So the light spectrum is for sure a sure thing, LoL. It doesn't get any more sure than that...
Did you purchase your Fox Farms nutrients yet? I can't remember if you did. Not dogging on them, but I used the FF trio with vegetables, and I never saw the same kind of immediate results that I did with Dyna-Gro. FF was awesome, don't get me wrong, but maybe it's because this is a MJ grow that it stands out to me so much. I don't remember fox farm doing that for me w/ tomatoes....but, they're tomatoes. Well, that's enough for this post lol. I'm off to make some fungus gnat traps. I already made some yellow sticky cards but i haven't caught any yet. Going to try a couple 20oz soda bottles with vinegar and soap in them. Peace brother, thanks for stopping by.