ahhhhh.. i seeee i seeee. well sumnthin u may wanna try.. the very last week of flowering... stick them under the floros.. it will help with the frost. and leavin the plant in the darkness for 2-3 days does actually increase trich production as well.. i wasnt always sure about that.. but read about it in a recent issue of hightimes.. =)
good luck man. those plants are lookin great!!!
I don't really want to down grade my light from 400w HPS to 200w floro when the only difference is the light spectrum.. Thats going from 55,000 lumens to 16,000. Using that logic, you might as well switch out to a 400w MH at the end, which again doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, considering HPS has been proven to be the best for flower..
MH will grow lots of foliage and branching, which is why it's good for veg
HPS will grow the branches thicker, the flowers better, and will grow more resin..
I've seen grows where it's either HPS from the start to finish, or MH from the start to finish... They never get dank dank flowers, it's either lanky and fluffy (all HPS) or tiny low yielding (all blue spectrum light). Now using both spectrums, on the same area I have seen people produce some very impressive nuggets.. This is what some commercial growers do, throw in a 600w MH, in between two 1000w HPS.. But for my needs I don't have room for extra lights, and can only run one system at a time, so I'll stick to 400w HPS throughout flowering
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So you must have FIMED am I correct?
Nope, topped, above first true node.. Go back to page 1 on this thread, I'm pretty sure I laid everything out and posted pictures
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have you ever given them too much kelp or can you?
It's organic, and the NPK is
0.2-0-0.3, which means it will not burn your crop if you use too much. Now this doesn't mean that your soil would
totally suck, if you added way too much of this stuff. The label says 5mL is the max feed, sometimes I feed 6 or 7mL if I feel it, but it is a thick, thick syrupy kelp. Highly concentrated, you don't really need a lot. You can definitely smell it when you use it, lingering in the grow tent, once the plant uses up the water in the pot the smell goes away. It's a good smell though
, like the beach.
na i kno ur not tryna be a dick. theres honestly no way to be sure the info from high times is legit.. but i have heard several growers doing this and having good results.. and reading it in the hightimes mag kinda re-assured me there might be something to it.. its the stress from the plants going from a 12-12 light regiment... to getting no light at all.. sum people will even bend the plant back and forth to create a little added stress.. which in return creates more resin glands.
if i had only seen this info in the hightimes magazine i would most likely 2nd guess it. but ive seen plenty of people talk about this. and heyy.. its only an extra 2-3 days... its not gonna hurt your plant to try it. i have my MOD sitting in darkness right now. =)
Supposedly, during lights on the idea is that lights degrade THC, so when the lights go off the plant produces more resin for the morning, then we chop before the 'morning' comes? Eh, I dig the idea, but I think that it would be impossible to change the resin or THC levels enough to notice, simply by not shining light on your plants for a few days. I feel like the resin would come and stay with the 2 months of flowering/growing prior to shutting the lights off..
This is what Uncle Ben says, and I tend to lean on his side of the argument for most things - as he comes at it from an old school gardener standpoint.
Some say this, some say that. Just because someone says something that is then repeated on the internet does not make it true.
Lab studies done by the U. of Miss. published by Mel Frank shows that THC levels are increased by lower RH and temps during flowering, and harvesting during a plant's night cycle. Can you tell any difference by smoking, I doubt it. Only a lab test with a control group will verify this. Anything other than a lab test is merely conjecture, speculation.
Since its photosynthesis that produces a plant's flowers, with all the materials that go along with that plant part, why would you want to do exactly the opposite of what's natural regarding a 0/24?
Treat the plant like normal maintaining healthy leaves until the end for the best results. I doubt if giving a plant oddball dark periods will do anything other than please the grower who wants to believe in them. It's phytochrome levels and photosynthesis that drives flowering, and once you hit the magical 12/12, it's a done deal.
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From this thread
https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/294222-double-harvests-plants-darkness-last.html
I do give my plants a few hours of dark before I chop them, but I just had to point the other side of the argument out for those thinking of doing 3 days of dark expecting to increase potency to a discernible level..