Antman
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That was grown in some stuff I got at a local nursery. ABSOLUTELY NO nutes in it.
100 watt cfl's on seedlings
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midwestmaster
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im growing in rookwool i just made my own aeroponic system
midwestmaster
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what kinda light schedule do u give ur seedlings
Antman
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I veg them 18/6. I always try to duplicate mother nature, so I give them a dark cycle. It makes sense for a bunch of reasons. One, it's natural for the plant. Two, the roots grow during the dark cycle, which everyone knows, big root system, big buds. Three, it saves on electricity. Four, using your ballast(HID) and bulbs 24 hours a day will cause them to burn out faster. I don't know about you, but I don't need any more reasons than that.
archaeo
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Not true. This gets perpetuated quite a bit. It's like saying humans grow during their sleep - a myth:
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/how-grow-marijuana/71067-do-roots-really-grow-dark.html
whiterhyno420
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eh yea i guess lol
Antman
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Antman
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From what I read in that article, it says that the plant grows MORE at night, which I would guess includes the roots. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. Here is the part I'm talking about. "* While the lights are OFF, the plant is using energy and raw materials to build itself…. the plant is MORE efficiently using the raw materials that it stored during the day. The plant is better at transporting and assembling the raw materials.
This is something else I read:
Most plants take up nutrients by both day and night. With night time being the more dominant side. Commercial hydroponic growers of 'heavy feeder' crops such as cucumbers and tomatoes, experience higher nutrient uptake in the evening and into the night as the temperatures cool down the plants are able to take up more water and nutrients through increased root pressure and more suitable environmental conditions. Warmer conditions during the day, the plant will shut down photosynthesis and transpiration and thus reduce nutrient uptake, and will then feed rapidly in the evening as conditions become cooler. Calcium is taken up during the night when root pressure allows more water uptake and transpiration within the plant, carrying with it calcium into plant tissue.
Maybe I should have written that the plants roots grow MORE at night?
Also, you stated "It's like saying humans grow during their sleep". Well, after reading that statement, it got me to thinking. Guess what? Humans DO grow during their sleep! Here's something for everyone to read:
Children "do grow at night"
Most growth spurts occur when at rest or sleeping
[SIZE=-1]Bone length was continuously measured by the sensors every 167 seconds for around three weeks. Up to 90 per cent of the bone growth occurred when the lambs were asleep or resting. "What was really interesting was that the bones were growing only when the lambs were lying down, and almost no growth occurs when the lambs are standing or moving around," said Norman Wilsman, one of the researchers. According to the researchers, when the animal is at rest, pressure on the bones involved with growth - the growth plates - is eased, which allows them to elongate. "Growth plates may be springs that, during standing and walking, experience compression and tension. When these strains are eased, as when the animal lies down or goes to sleep, they resume growing," added Wilsman.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The findings were backed by Jeremy Wales, a consultant paediatrician who studied child growth at Sheffield's Children's Hospital. "There have been human studies that also document this. Children do have growth spurts at night," he said. According to Wales, French folk law back in the 1500s claimed that children grew at night.[/SIZE]
SO... according to all of these articles, plants, AND humans, never stop growing, AND, do more of their growing at night.
SO... according to all of these articles, plants, AND humans, never stop growing, AND, do more of their growing at night.
midwestmaster
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im all for my plants getting a little shuteye lol i know i like it so im sure they do 2 haha
archaeo
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Interesting. It seems that on the internet one can find evidence for almost any belief one wishes to support - I'm guilty myself of taking the article I quoted as fact.From what I read in that article, it says that the plant grows MORE at night, which I would guess includes the roots. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. Here is the part I'm talking about. "* While the lights are OFF, the plant is using energy and raw materials to build itself . the plant is MORE efficiently using the raw materials that it stored during the day. The plant is better at transporting and assembling the raw materials.
This is something else I read:
Most plants take up nutrients by both day and night. With night time being the more dominant side. Commercial hydroponic growers of 'heavy feeder' crops such as cucumbers and tomatoes, experience higher nutrient uptake in the evening and into the night as the temperatures cool down the plants are able to take up more water and nutrients through increased root pressure and more suitable environmental conditions. Warmer conditions during the day, the plant will shut down photosynthesis and transpiration and thus reduce nutrient uptake, and will then feed rapidly in the evening as conditions become cooler. Calcium is taken up during the night when root pressure allows more water uptake and transpiration within the plant, carrying with it calcium into plant tissue.
Maybe I should have written that the plants roots grow MORE at night?
Also, you stated "It's like saying humans grow during their sleep". Well, after reading that statement, it got me to thinking. Guess what? Humans DO grow during their sleep! Here's something for everyone to read:
Children "do grow at night"
Most growth spurts occur when at rest or sleeping
[SIZE=-1]Madison (pte/Jan 31, 2005/11:00) - Scientists have admitted that the notion that children grow taller while they sleep is probably true. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, researchers at the University of Wisconsin http://www.wisc.edu put sensors in the leg bones of baby lambs and confirmed that most growth spurts occurred when the animals were at rest or sleeping. According to the scientists, the same is true in humans, and this could help explain why some children suffer from growing pains at night.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Bone length was continuously measured by the sensors every 167 seconds for around three weeks. Up to 90 per cent of the bone growth occurred when the lambs were asleep or resting. "What was really interesting was that the bones were growing only when the lambs were lying down, and almost no growth occurs when the lambs are standing or moving around," said Norman Wilsman, one of the researchers. According to the researchers, when the animal is at rest, pressure on the bones involved with growth - the growth plates - is eased, which allows them to elongate. "Growth plates may be springs that, during standing and walking, experience compression and tension. When these strains are eased, as when the animal lies down or goes to sleep, they resume growing," added Wilsman.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The findings were backed by Jeremy Wales, a consultant paediatrician who studied child growth at Sheffield's Children's Hospital. "There have been human studies that also document this. Children do have growth spurts at night," he said. According to Wales, French folk law back in the 1500s claimed that children grew at night.[/SIZE]
SO... according to all of these articles, plants, AND humans, never stop growing, AND, do more of their growing at night.
There's an overabundance of 'experts' all over the net. A bit OT, but I suppose it's the nature of having so much information at your fingertips, and being able to put it there so easily.
In this case, to each his own. Let 'em sleep!
