Gracias, amigos. I've got a stubborn A-Train that's went far beyond the expected 8 - 9 weeks of her 3 predecessors - 11 wks this past Tues - last plant in the tent for two weeks now. I've had it on 8 / 16 for 10 days trying to speed it along, and finally turned off the light [ for good ] yesterday, because it's getting chopped tomorrow regardless.
In the past I did some side by side comparisons. Basically revolves around the concept of positive stress similar to Ed Rosenthal's I place a nail at the base of the trunk to induce the plants to produce more resin. My little projects in the past suggested that what I continue to do works better in this order of plant genetic makeup....Indica dominant > hybrid > Sativa dominant.
I'm glad to help. Powdery mildew is the worst, and a lot of the treatments that are available for it are not actually treating the mildew itself, which is systemic and lives inside the plant. Sprays and sulfur burners will work as both a preventative measure to stop it from spreading, and to reduce the appearance of it on the outside of the plants, but so far that one bacteria (which is fairly common in natural organic soil) has been the only thing I've found the will completely eradicate powdery mildew from infected plants.
I have a bunch of microscopes. Trich heads change their size more frequently than you would think.
What do you mean "change their size"?
Yes, I'm 'eyeballing' them by comparing them with my eyes on high res images captured from a 60x usb digital microscope.
Yes, since you were unaware, the complete biology of the cannabis plant, including the ways in which it responds to environmental stress, has been documented rather exhaustingly by botanists (*gasp* actual scientists, even!) in numerous books. I suggest you read one instead of wasting people's time on the internet, but to each their own.
The study was done by Carlton Turner, he showed that potency varied based on the time of day a plant was harvested. Prolonged night cycles were not tested, people just use his research to assume that a even longer night cycle would lead to even more potency.
Cheers!
THIS. It is all about having STRONG SLOW GROWING microbes dominate above your WEAK FAST GROWING microbes. PM is a little savage, hardly any muscle but it jumps on any open site and breeds like a mofo, going systemic etc. Molds can be prevented and reversed. A little bit of PM will bow down under a Lactobacillus spray. I make s spray down once every eight weeks or what part of the routine. Also not seen a mold in a long time, not since starting to use LactoB serum. A nicely treated probiotic system is solid as a rock. M4k at Gage uses Gro-Kashi and soaks it to make a foliar. Same results.
I think plants look more frosty to people because HID for one doesn't show off frost that well, and also not seeing it for two days makes it look epic. Nature doesn't go dark for two days so the weed on planet earth can ripen. Tested the whole darkness theory myself and I find it to be BS.
That's an interesting point. Then again, nature doesn't provide even 12 / 12 days all year round, or have air pumps and LEDs out in the lands untouched by humans [ just a guess].
Olfactory Fatigue perhaps?... I don't see how two dark days will make that difference to chlorophyll nor terpenes. The one you hit first will taste better... also perhaps a few other contributing factors?
It does however have living organic soil everywhere
Hope you are well mate.
I'm good. Just a bit restless. Don't let the smarm fool you - I'm mostly in agreement w/ your previous post - just noting that in an artificially created grow room, many of Ma Nature's techniques are, in fact, improved upon - light period being an easy example.It does however have living organic soil everywhere
Lol yeah... my time zone being way ahead of yours I was just too loose in the head for the simple 'touche' muahahahaha. I guess 'nature' doesn't reeeeaaaalllllyyy count under HID... plus I have long held the opinion cannabis has adapted to our most unnatural circumstances anyhow. Each idea holds merit in the end until irrevocably refuted. I am going to continue swimming against the stream for the exercise though and continue arguing 'placebo effect' on the darkness thing...
You think so? I've seen plants react much better with nature controlling the days of light. Super long days of summer followed by the days getting shorter, and losing up to 4 minutes a day during fall seems to kick the budding into a whole new level that a simple 12/13 cannot replicate.