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I usually em on my phone app and they don't have that stuff, I'm trying to get better and I'm going online more to add thanks and rep. Don't be surprised if you get more, you deserve it.
Sorry it was so late
My old man was a civil engineer and actually wrote in perfect font ... but he can't type! he always had a secretary to do that for him.
thats the habit i need to improve in recent year or so i have gotten lax in veg training unless i do scrogg i seem to have fallen into a habit of topping and light defol
thats the habit i need to improve in recent year or so i have gotten lax in veg training unless i do scrogg i seem to have fallen into a habit of topping and light defol
your geeking to your unique level of perfection indigo brother never to much to understand but plenty to learn
yes im actually seeing that in recent harvests i grew a few sour diesel#2 clones and seeing larger yeilds of higher quality bud with over 200watts less power draw (just the light) and 1 plant that was flowered under hps had 3 weeks more veg time in a scrog but still came in 3rd for yeild also it took 3 times more food and water for the hps plants due to the coco drying out in 2 days vs 7-10 days for the led plants
Well, think of it like this... a 400w HPS puts out a LOT of light, that's true... but most of that light is in the yellow to orange band of visible light, and really not a whole lot in the spectral range that is usable by plants to drive photosynthesis. Notice the yellow and orange is a big spike in the center, but the red/blue is relatively small.
Now, what LED's do is to focus in only on the wavelengths that plants use for for photosynthesis, and do not use much energy producing light that is in the ranges that plants don't need. Notice where the spikes are, and the lack of large measurements of green, yellow, orange, as opposed to the HPS above.
Thus less energy is used/wasted on light that just makes the plant visible to us, and more on the light that plants use to make food. This is a breakthrough, of sorts, in that more energy is directed at specific the wavelengths and thus can use less energy overall to get more powerful light to the plants that they will actually be able to use.
In essence, a 200w LED can potentially deliver more usable light to the plant than a 400w HPS because all that power is not wasted in the green, yellow, and orange bands.
I'll get into which bands are used for what later in the lesson, but for know let this sink in while thinking about how much overall energy can be saved over HPS.
Here is FIMing and Topping compared. By the way FIMing is more forgiving. FIM = Fu*k I Missed it!
Look a post #569 in my OMMSOGa Journal listed below for a tutorial on super cropping. Tried to copy it here but couldn't. If you still can't find it, I'll try some other way to show you.
