hybridway2
Amare Shill
That's a really good point about how they breed using hps. That should change or at least have the option between the 2 in the future.@hybridway2 If the light is enhanced especially for plant growth, then that's all good, too -as long as the plants which are grown under that spectrum have been allowed to reproduce under it for at least one generation. Most commercial seed stock that people can buy, have been grown under HID lighting, so, when you take those seeds and grow them under LED light, the genetically-imprinted expectations (for lack of a better term) of that seed will need time to adjust and re-tune itself to the LED. And the same goes for all the other growing conditions, too. Subsequent generations would be the only real way to tell.
I also think that chlorophyll peaks may be slightly off-goal when it comes to marijuana. I believe that things like terpenes and volatile esters could be variable under different spectrums regardless of how much chlorophyll a plant is producing. I have no science to link for this belief -(other than my first-hand witnessing of some of the stinkiest and tastiest weed I've ever smoked), that was grown under fluorescent shop lights -and grown under them for countless generations with little-to-no variance. Lot's of cool, white/blue light sitting low onto the tops of extremely manifolded plants....wow! It works!
It's my belief that a plant will adapt to its light source, if allowed. It just takes time, growing style/knowledge....and also selecting a good male to pollinate the females under those conditions, so that the seed will have that environmental-imprint.
I think this contest will prove to be very even between the two companies -as long as the photon energy is equal.
Ya know, i stopped using my Hydroponics Hut Burple for veg even know it kicked serious veg ass. Yes a cob/diode array blew but that's not why.
Thought somehow that the plant wouldn't like its non-burple flower light, not be prepared for the dramatic spectral shift & have a poor attitude. But it could've just been in my head.
Fearing that now vegging a few doubles under the RGB HGL's. Which are vegging great now that they're at the proper height for my plants.
Just concerned about the switch to another source at flower.
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