To Dan, maybe I didn't get on my knees enough the first time.......
Wasn't my intention to be condescending or insulting. If I was, I apologize.
I'm not uneducated. You didn't understand me, I HAVE had amazing grapefruit kush AND Romulan what I was saying how it makes me frustrated those strains are always lowgrade instead of the fire samples I've had! Same with MK Ultra! *Side Question* you have any experience with Next generation other than grapefruit Kush? If not, how did you like the GK in finished product and in flowering? I
I've never grown any other of their strains. I loved the final product from the grapefruit kush. It was a great plant. I only grew out a few of them, but I think it was a nice sweet strain sort of lacking in a pungent grapefruit/citrus flavor I was expecting, but still very nice.
Sound like your problem is that the clubs around you just suck. I don't know enough about the clubs down there to recommend a good one.
I read HT because they DO have some useful stuff occasionally, as a grower concerned with business I'm surprised you wouldn't make it your priority to read as much as possible.
Yeah, IDK. Maybe it is useful. But in general I find all cannabis magazines to be basically a collection of ads, where even the articles are generally for the purpose of trying to get you to buy shit. The only time I read them is when I'm in a dispensary waiting to see the buyer. Generally west coast cannabis and culture are the ones available for me to read.
Yea more than half is garbage, yet there ARE some gems among the pages so no need to frown so on it.
You're probably right, IDK. Like I said, I haven't really read it since highschool, so I can't actually speak to the quality of that particular magazine.
As for indoor lighting do you keep up with the advances in LEDS?
Yes, to a point. Most of the "advances" are just people trying to promote bullshit, but there are actually some LED's better than others.
I actually own quite a few LEDS. I use them for vegging moms and to keep plants from flowering outside. As long as you're using LED's that are made up of 3w or greater bulbs, they are pretty efficient for this.
There are quite a few threads showing larger grows using some of these panels and a few have been at or very near 1g per watt.
Yes, that's true. You can actually get considerably higher than 1g per watt with LED's. The problem is that bud just doesn't hold up to the quality of HPS grown bud. It's extremely fluffy with much smaller buds. You basically get a crop of larf with very few nice looking buds. Nothing wrong with that if you're growing for personal smoke. But commercially it's not yet a viable option to flower with LED's.
I've got area 51's myself and they are really high quality and the power draw is exactly as advertised.
I've seen those in the box, haven't tried them myself.
I've even seen blackstars used to success though they are at the lower quality end. Just something to look into over the next few years.
For vegging MOM's, LED tech is great right now. They are still inferior for both vegging plants you're going to flower and actually flowering plants at this time. I'm sure they'll catch up eventually.
*In case this needs to be said you don't need to defend your area being the starting point for many great strains. I'm from Chicago I have zero loyalty to LA and as I've stated I'm frustrated with the decline in genetics here so if anything...I'm on your side?*
I'm not hating on LA. I just have absolutely no clue what's going on there right now in terms of finding quality bud. My range of current knowledge is limited to anywhere between Humboldt and central Cali.
