I need to get this battery situation fixed, you guys are going to love how my room is set up!
So I completely rearranged my room, and discontinued having sunrise and sunset because I felt it wasn't helping considering how stretched the lighting was. The spectras are just O.K. models for that type of light anyway. These 640 watts are going to be enough to keep my girls very happy. The room averages 35w/sqft, that is only lighting wattage, there is obviously fans running, and next month there will the occasional burst of AC going on and an average of 42w/sqft of wondrous light
All the plants are a little closer to the lights, and I have the Spectras finally doing my bidding. AO X CW is doing wonderfully, but it has been determined that this will not be our keeper unless she shocks me when I smoke her. I don't like her growth for mainlining anyway, so I kept a clone to try a Mini-Vert. I don't just throw out what looks to be some of the most potent smoke I have ever seen, and she had too much lower shit on her for me to make a fair guess as to the yield. Her bud structure looks to be a pain in the ass as far as trimming goes, and that makes me hate a strain more than anything.
If succesful my next thread will be about Mini-Vert growing. Right now the Mini-Vert beta tester is about 2 weeks into flowering. She was a mainlined plant that I accidentally broke a stem off of. At first I was bummed, but I decided to continue and just train it so that it had three main colas and not worry about cleaning up as much. The plant had an amazing time, and for some reason the way I had the plant facing me I saw how I could use every bit of growth she had. I cleaned up the shaded material and saw this kind of wall of little buds. Earlier I had been working with my mainline and I saw how if I built her low enough to the ground I could make some real use out of the scrog type "wall of green" looking growth.
So I built a triangular cage around her out of garden fencing (Home depot, in the fencing area by the lumber), that was able to have her limbs crawl in and around it. She's crept up nearly a foot since switching her to bud! Promising sativa dom. vert scroggy thing. Really low gallons though, about 4.5. Once she stops stretching, I'm going to add a 8watt high efficiency corncob style led into the middle. Probably a cool white/neutral white because I have enough warm lighting in the room already.
When I have a proof of concept, I'm going to yet again redesign my room from the ground up. Led corn cob style will get intense safe points of light exposed to leaves deep in the canopy and directly below it that are normally shaded. If this helps to develop lower foliage I will think about changing up my whole system. I need a cup of proof pudding before I ask for the recipe
Where the plant is right now it has a 50w 3000k Led floodlight aimed down at a 45'angle, it's also getting some light coming in from the side from the 130w Spectra, and a 20w Cool white Led floodlight. It has three large colas, and an army of lowers that are growing in every direction. I'm starting to get closer to my desired goal of 1g/w before adding CO2. Without CO2 I'm at about .77g/w, with it was right at 1g/w. Some strains do better, but I'm going to be growing those more often now, the new genetics can actually somewhat tolerate the Spectras at close range. I can't even imagine how pleased I will be with a sealed room.
Damn it all, the next update is going to have a shit ton of pictures!
ILovePlants
P.S. PSUAGRO, I will buy a biowave later next year
if I'm able to eye witness some real results! I read through all of the brix studies and they seemed more plausible then most of the medical journals that I read over I'm planning on getting some of my grower friends and family together to start a co-opted grow house situation. If I could invest $2200, which is the price of the 1 acre 30w model, for a 1 time investment at 12-24% increased yield FOREVER, would I do it? Yes I would, but I want proof. Because the reward would be epic in a house with 4 to 6 legal grows going on. Actually the only major thing that just puts me off is that they never come out and say exactly what the subharmonic frequency it is emitting. That would reassure me, a bit, and first hand witnessing it's abilities.
I saw a study done by Chinese botanists on tomatoes and corn. They played different music to the plants, at first it was a bust, nothing seemed to do anything except classical/ambient music in the key of C-major had like a 3-6% increase in yield. If it would have been groundbreaking, than the Chinese govt would've made giant speakers to blast their plantations with. Those people don't fuck around, you have to respect a nation that 45 to 50 years ago was considered by some to be a third world country. Now they are a world power, with just as many issues as we have in all reality. Probably because the U.S. is on loan from the Chinese gov't
I suppose I'm just wondering if there was anything to that study. Also I have this crazy idea in my head that our earth is producing this song, like the whole of the earth if you were to take every noise and then bring that down to it's lowest roots, what would you have? The song of life? One of the very few crazy spiritual things I feel because I do like the idea that all life is connected.
Honestly I highly doubt this spiritual feeling, because deep down I'm a highly logical person. Evidence is my religion.