MAX OUT your plant and YIELD with under-pot lighting

[JoeBloggs]

I may have come up with hopefully a new idea or possibly needs revisiting as LEDs are cool and high intensity now. I haven't found a specific thread or anything on Google (yet). Probably will be told I should have looked harder! Maybe tested it out too.

One of the problems with overhead lighting is that too close to the canopy and you will get light burn and too far and there is limited penetration, so its all popcorn lower down. Light passes through higher leaves to some degree as I understand it but not enough of it.

My latest 100w LED is waterproof-ish so it made me think of having one, say, on the floor (pointing up), with pot raised if necessary, which would light up plant from head to toe. There is a limit to the amount of light you can apply from above but now with cool LEDs maybe we need to double that! Light up your girls from below too! They will love it. Use a dimmer below perhaps. Thinking of it and why not the bloomin' walls too!

Could it be the new craze or will it stress them ladies out? Lets find out .....

 

[Nope_49595933949]

http://instagr.am/p/ChU7VpcrBXW/

 

[Amaximus]

I inject my plants with pure sunlight. It's definitely the next craze. Shh! Tell no one.

 

[Moflow]

You need a Sun Cloak type system
Don't know if they sell them anymore tho.....
I think side lighting rather than under canopy lighting is the way to go.
More photoreceptor on tops of leaves.

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[PopAndSonGrows]

Side lighting coupled with top lighting, is the way to go. Plants can't utilize light from the underside of leaves, and you might be causing undue stress; ever seen a heat or light stressed plant twist its leaf/leaves upside down or sideways? Exactly.

 

[Rurumo]

There are multiple research studies on SCL (sub canopy lighting) specific to cannabis, here is one https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329257744_Improving_Cannabis_Bud_Quality_and_Yield_with_Subcanopy_Lighting

 

[farmerfischer]

Side lighting coupled with top lighting, is the way to go. Plants can't utilize light from the underside of leaves, and you might be causing undue stress; ever seen a heat or light stressed plant twist its leaf/leaves upside down or sideways? Exactly.

This was my thinking when i saw the pic..

 

[radicaldank42]

i have for years to incorporate vertical growing but with hoods above! also using leds and hids.

 

[myke]

I run 50w strips down low to help fill out larf,plant just grows around them.

 

[GrodanLightfoot]

I inject my plants with pure sunlight. It's definitely the next craze. Shh! Tell no one.

I mulch with broken mirrors. Shhhh..

 

[Drop That Sound]

What if you purposefully put all the lighting on the floor, and grew upside down from hanging planters? Would the extra "gravity" pull more nutrients to the buds? Make them grow longer? Sure all the leaves would twist down if its the only source.

Can't say that I've actually ever tried to grow that way, on purpose.

 

[visajoe1]

 

[sunasun]

What if you purposefully put all the lighting on the floor, and grew upside down from hanging planters? Would the extra "gravity" pull more nutrients to the buds? Make them grow longer? Sure all the leaves would twist down if its the only source.

Can't say that I've actually ever tried to grow that way, on purpose.

You need a topsy turvy planter.

 

[Drop That Sound]

 

[Drop That Sound]

What if you you repeated the experiment over and over, and kept letting them reproduce upside down too. For years and years. Breed generation after generation of upside down plants.


Then, one day.. you plant some of the seeds into a right side up configured grow room, as normal.

Would they grow twisted, or all upside down, and catty wompas?

 

[Drop That Sound]

I guess the real question is, would they genetically evolve and adapt to the upside down condition in the first place?

 

[Drop That Sound]

 

[Kassiopeija]

Plants can't utilize light from the underside of leaves,

oh they can, they just don't have that much chloroplasts at the under layer of the leaf but still there are some, usually light-depraved ones... the key to all of this is diffuse light that is so much better to reach into the whole plant structure, and distribute sugar accordingly

 

[Drop That Sound]

If I tried the upside down experiment, I wouldn't have have shiny walls like in the above video. That just reflects light up and back down, and defeats the purpose. I would black out the walls, and even screen that area above and around the plant off.

 

[Johnny Lawrence]

So much dumb.