No different to cutting out pieces of bud off a non foxtailing plant. What would happen if you chopped the top quarter of a cola? The top quarter of that cola wouldn’t grow back unless you revegged.
I think you misunderstood me. I'm saying you want to run about 30% higher N then normal mh/hps grown plants going into flower and through first few weeks when using LED. This makes it so dont need to run such high temps that cause foxtailing. Took me 2 yrs of messing around in my tester areas that are both Quantum areas to figure out exactly how to use them. I tried high temps which caused foxtailing and loss in quality. My main room with combo of hps and qb's runs at 80f average and I never see foxtailing but I feed them like I have always for hps which the room mainly runs.
Ok. I don’t use LEDs so cant comment on that. But if it works for you then that’s awesome
mostly everybody on here that runs led had issues when they started using them with weird deficiencies so they run extra high temps. so I did what they recommended and didn't like the way the plants responded. so I started messing with ferts levels and soil mixes until I found where I could run cooler temps and not have any deficiencies show up. i do get some tip burn on them that I normally don't see in my main veg area under MHs and main Hps room but plants overall are very healthy all the way through bloom compared to running high temps and getting foxtailing.Ok. I don’t use LEDs so cant comment on that. But if it works for you then that’s awesome
I do have 1 question out of interest,
what’s your theory as to why you need less temp when you are running more N? I would understand if you said that running more N allows you to increase light intensity...
Just that I run my room at a certain temp/humidity at different stages of the plants life and adjust my feeding to suit not my temps if that makes sense?
Ahhh ok. I was looking at another forum a few months ago, they were talking about LEDs don’t create the same surface heat on the leaves as hps so they have to increase the temps for better photosynthesis/perspiration etc.....
Yeah that's what they say. I don't point circulating fans directly at plants under LED only at drivers and the boards.
Just out of interest, what LEDs do you use booms? Obviously you have to tweek your environment a little compared to hid’s but how do you think they compare to hps in terms of yield, quality, density and light penetration??
Those flowers look ready to harvest to me.* I once tried harvesting based solely on what the seed breeders recommended in terms of the number of days at 12/12 and I did not like the results. That was with a strain called Dr. Who, growing indoors.
I have eight 132 quantum boards, four quantum 120's and three 324 quantums. So 15 boards all together and all different spectums. Yield wise they do alot better then hps in smaller size plants watt for watt compared to hps but my main area I prefer 6ft+ plants where hps is king still but i use quantums between the 1ks for the extra tall girls that I don't want to get to close to the hps's. Quality and density is very similar and nobody can tell which light they were grown under.
What I do is basicly pick all new tester genetics around 63-65 days no matter what breeder says. Then I write on dry erase board the amount of days i took it to harvest so after smoking the end product I adjust the harvest day longer or shorter based on results. Usually if it made me tired or lacked flavor I'll back it off 3 days or if it was weak potency I'll add 3 days. Then I keep adjusting every time I harvest until I find sweet spot. After time you will see even 1 day difference can change the end product.
So was your yield shit with the 800 ppfd shit so you jumped to 1000?
at 800 ppfd i yielded approx 220 grams.
Looks a really good job to me, i call it the second round, just when you think there ready you get a second wave of new white hairs, i normally chop a week or so after. Well done she looks lovely
thanks. it has taken me a little over a year and a half to get my grow dialed in to the point at which it is now. im proud of what i have accomplished and learned with little to no knowledge of growing before i started.
What strain is it ?
california sour -breeder is dusted bud genetics