There are no shortcuts to growing dank weed, you must control the heat of a high intensity light (the more intense the better)
If you are trying to "Go Around" the heat problem sort of speak and trade your intensity for better heat management (Which is exactly what LEDs offer) then you better off growing mushrooms
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People don't realize 1 simple thing, making a plant grow is not a problem even with the smallest intensity light, people all over the internet show this, 90w UFO light will grow trees if given the time needed, but how can that be ? because a plant can bust through concrete, stone sidewalks, etc.. with just a little bit of light and water, and from there the options are unlimited.
BUT, to make a plant produce frosty rich trichomes is a whole different thing, you MUST have strength,
both from the light source and from the plant itself.
Read carefully, in the bible it says "for as a human, so the tree of the field", meaning, we are not so different from them, you can learn a lot about humans if u study trees
Like humans, you must add things that will help the process of what you are trying to achieve, if its muscles then u train and eat a lot of protein, if its a craft of some kind you practice it and perfect the tools and skills for it.
So, You must divide the growing production and trichome production into 2 different sections,
Why is that ? because at different stages you need different things, like muscles, your body needs water and food to keep itself going, but your muscles need high protein and stress to be at their finest, so you can give your plants just plain water and food and light, and they will survive just being alive, like us humans
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but to grow their muscles you must have that extra kick, the PROTEIN !
We can all agree trichome production is a defense mechanism of the plant, defense from what ? well, some say bugs, some say UV, some say high intensity light.. we can agree on them all, but reality shows us, that indoor grows lack the bugs to maintain such high levels of stress and frost, also UV is not a factor in indoor growing as most of the people just grow with LEDs or HPSs
What are we left with ? oh yeah.. strong lights...
Its consisted, trichomes (lets call it the muscles of the plants for better clarification on the things above) like high intensity lights, they thrive under it, they cover the whole plant, protecting it not from bugs or UV but from the heat and the intensity of the light.
Peace