Yepp! Plants grow more efficient with low intensity and especially with automatics it leads to great results.
That's what I'm talking about. That's why it is detrimental to make days shorter, but small changes make small differences usually.
Very important!!
With higher VPD,you need lower EC
Hey Dawg, would you tell me something about that grow in details? Is there a thread or post about it?
What's the point having them on during the light period?
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I've replicated those results several times now. It varies a little each time but the lower CRI always does some catch up in the flower stage.
Maybe it's not necessary, but my clocks are not synchronized and therefore I let it go on a little earlier. The effect seems the same, at least I see no difference when one clock comes slower over the weeks.
You might knock off a few days with initiators and 11.5/12.5, possibly down to 40, doubt you'd knock off a whole week if they're already finishing that fast. But I have 4 phenos that finish in around 49-51 days that were typically 54-56. Rarely go more than 56 with the hybrids I'm running other than a pure sativa like Panana (even there it's stated at 11-13 weeks and finished in 10 & 11 weeks) and I cycle 12-15 strains on average.
I have done the two ways, with same sativa clones:
Best overall yield I got was running 12.5/11.5 and low wattage on one end of the room like 22w.sq./ft. Those clones got 10-15% more than usual, but it took forever to finish, like 2 weeks past usual finish times. Wasn't worthwhile for me but I'd rather flip more/faster for breeding/hunts.
Different experiments, similar results. Convincing
Yeah saw your post, similar end results. That was when I first switched to COBs and had 600w in a 3.5 x 9' for a couple of rounds (I've added another 200w since). When I added some plants at the end of the room just because I had them available, I didn't have much light and spread out what I had to just barely cover those. While they ended up taking a long time, they did produce quite well.
Do you remember the yields? Was the g/week ratio higher than usual?
No I don't bother weighing unless I'm experimenting on purpose but that was a clone that I ran for a couple of years for breeding so I had lots of previous reference and she was much fatter than previous runs. In this case it was just an accident that I noticed towards the end of the run when I happened to be running low wattage on one end of the room. It's interesting the many variances you run across in slightly different environments, in this case even in the same room but lower lighting conditions on one end. I've read that low lighting conditions can increase yields, may do that on purpose sometime to see if it's consistent but that run was awesome, just took forever.
Was there any difference in plant height? I have to keep my ladies short.
Where have you read that?
Several posts on forums but haven't found anything solid like a paper/study. After seeing what I got out of that run it may be worth a test though. I'll have to wait until I get through some seed runs. Only way to really tell is using known clones for a baseline, then running them in same size containers, and flipping them at the same size.
