Recent content by Jazz Cabbage

Small update, I had to cool off. This is a shot from Day 35, plant has been growing with the lights 13 inches away but had to move them to 16 inches to get a better spread. Just about to start week six plant is 10" high now with lots of lst and heavy defoliating, although I can never tell I've...

We all know that the apical meristem will send down auxins that will diffuse to the dark side and stop the light side growing so that the plant bends towards the light, there's no argument there. If you put a dope seedling in a pot under a 2700K incandescent light bulb it will grow tall and...

You're not talking 12/12 for an automatic are you?

Distilled water will ruin your pH meter. You need to get some proper pH 7 buffer solution, or you can get the pH 6.86 and pH 4.01 powders which are excellent and accurate use distilled water to mix the powdered buffer solution. You should store you meter in the used buffer solution to keep it...

Yeah I'll go with that a durable matt or semi matt. But a very highly textured metallic is also good but the difference between the best textured metallic and matt white is not worth the hassle for maybe a few percent extra.

Yes, searching for the direction of the light is definitely what the plant will do. But it doesn't grow towards it. It bends towards it because the dark side of the plant sends hormones down which causes outside wall of the cell to become more flexible and the cell changes it's shape it gets...

Plants don't stop growing in the dark.

It might be not too difficult to try the matt spray. Another solution that would not involve spraying anything containing solvents in the grow room would be to purchase some very fine loose weave cotton from a fabric shop take it outside and then spray it with some adhesive spray, the type that...

I wrote to a professor of biology about this and got the following response... There will be some upper limit on how much carbon a plant can fix (i.e., how much sugar it can produce) based on limiting factors other than light exposure. These limiting factors could include key nutrients (such...

You're better off with matt white than mylar, but aluminium foil is even better, *if* you crinkle it up first and then spread it smooth. Something that just came to mind that would be a good idea for either foil or mylar, is to go to an art supply store and purchase some matt spray. Spray it on...