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    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    See, the insults just keep coming but you continue to fail to address why I'm getting the results I am getting. Oh, that's right, I am a lying, incompetent, attention seeking nube. Or not. thanks for the clarity on your point of view - that there is nothing new to learn about cannabis...
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    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    Took me awhile to get back, but here's my response both amount of light delivered and the plant's ability to absorb light are important. To take it to the extreme, you are going to grow Jack shit with 100 lumens total no matter what you do with the fans leaves. your use of solar panels as an...
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    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    Uncle Ben, with all due respect, that's why I reply to almost all of those kinds of posts with caveats as to why I don't think someone's take on it is correct. Go back and look at the thread. I can lead a horse to water but it is not my fault if they drown in it. Just like anything in life...
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    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    You're projecting again. It is you who is avoiding addressing my points. As you will. Don't worry, i'll get to everybody's worthwhile post, as I always do. Just scurrying around getting ready to be gone for 8 days. Might be a couple of weeks before I get back here, might get a chance on the...
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    You're welcome. But like most of the stuff I do I'm using it myself so it's just one extra step to record it here and this is a handy place to keep records anyway. Plus I get pretty direct feedback that helps a lot when I get lost.
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    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    My advantage in this discussion is that I know absolutely nothing about botany but know more than 99% of population about physics. A very simple example, take your basic plant sunning itself under a 600 watt light. It's a three foot tall female and you have your lights exactly 22 inches away...
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    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    you go away for a day and everyone hijacks the thread. there's no disagreement on topping, the question at hand is pruning. i think most people are missing the point of this thread - that pruning does indeed "injure" the plant, and in this case the injury is intentional. you want the main...
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    well gang, i'm headed out of town for a week, so the experiment's shutting down too until i get back. i did work up some preliminary economics based solely on the size and characteristics of my grow room, so these numbers are not in any way universal although the relative economics between...
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    Co2 at 1400 ppm just before adding new containers at 9 am.
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    First post, requesting advice.

    Read the first two links in my signature below and most questions you have will be answered.
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    First grow assistance needed

    Do that then read the first two links in my signature below
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    Co2 at 1325 at 8 am, so the fermentation has been pretty consistent this experiment. I'm scaling up the ingredients to shoot for 1500 ppm. With a net gain of 600 ppm to get to 1250 i need another 40% to reach 1500, now I am adding 1.25 gAllons water/.75 pounds of sugar/21 grams yeast each day...
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    ok, I'll go with that. This formula has worked pretty well so I'm going to stick with it for this experiment but I ordered some safe-ale (sp?) yeast to try next. Any ideas about how to recover yeast? Maybe if I let the containers sit for a day after use in the refrigerator? :-?
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    point. you could also cut your pitching rate in half (use less yeast) to see if that helps extend your ferment. tried that in experiment 3, but the fermentation still seemed to peter out by the end of the third day. maybe it's alcohol intolerance and not sugar depletion that's stopping my...
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    for the record, co2 at 1250 ppm at 9 pm. i may need to scale up the ingredients a little if this falls below 1000 ppm tomorrow morning. oh well, tinker and tinker, we'll get it right.
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    I am really going to have to start charging for experiments but using a complex sugar is a thought worth trying out.
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    Myth busters - the real truth on CO2 in indoor grows

    Co2 at 1400 ppm at 5 pm. Looks like rotating containers is a practical way to maintain a high level of co2. Going to give it another day or so, then I'll write up the formula and steps needed to make it work. :-?
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    The Thread In Which We Discuss Our Fucking Avatars!!11!!

    Mine is a self portrait
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    Flowering Temps and Humidity.

    Your conditions are perfect
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    Help

    Sounds like a normal plant. Read the first two links in my signature below for some great tips for newbies from experts on this site.
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