Heh, you're very welcome.
I'm a new grower (3 ½ years) and I drank the Bugbee Koolaid soon after I started growing. A lot of the things that he talked about in 2021 and 2022 have been very much fleshed out in the past 6-12 months.
First issue - Bugbee talks about photosynthesis rates in his videos of a few years ago and what he was saying was backed up by the Chandra paper (attached). The gist of that research was the photosynthesis curve starts to roll off by around 1kµmol, even in enhanced CO2. That fit well with the conventional wisdom of the light saturation point for cannabis being 800-1kµmol.
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That sorta made sense to me but I had this nagging thought "I'm not harvesting (net) photosynthesis." and, as it turns out, the entire idea of net P being a proxy for yield was blown out of the water by the authors of the Frontiers paper (attached).
In the Frontiers paper, the authors use the term "plasticity" to describe the fact that yield keeps going up well past the 1kµmol mark were P starts to roll off. When I read that, that's when I started growing at 70-80 DLI for autos and for photos in veg.
That was just one study though and Bugbee didn't change his tune much until late last year when he opened the kimono a bit and started talking about temperature being really important.
What was happening behind the scenes is that Mitch Westmoreland, a PhD student studying under Bugbee at Utah State, was doing his research and, from my perspective, what Westmoreland has done has blown things completely open. Westmoreland is a different cat than Bugbee; he's much younger, obviously, but he was able to do his research when FedGov made it much easier to do research on cannabis. That's not to take anything away from Westmoreland - he's seen a need and filled it.
The "big reveal" is in Westmoreland's videos for the Future Cannabis Project and also this video
Those videos put to rest a lot of the conventional wisdom and a lot of misinformation that's published as being valid ("misinformation" can be applied pejoratively but it is appropriate for some of the drecht that some sites publish - Photone's "recommendations" come to mind).
Bugbee himself did an interview with Shane @ Migro with some of the new info and he's always good to watch but, by and large, it's been the Westmoreland show for the past six to eight months and the guy really delivers.
