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My garden efficiency is 0.41 grams per kwh. The killowatt hour figure includes bulb, fans; all elect. consumption to grow those grams of pot. (The bulb's nominal wattage works out to be about 60% of total electricity consumed). The grams figure tallies only trimmed buds. My system is a four...

December 5, is a day to mark because it is the anniversary of the repeal of prohibition in US law. Since that date, every December 5 has been celebrated as Repeal Day. Cannabiphyles have an interest in adopting and promoting Repeal Day as an occasion to make the point that today's cannabis...

Electrifying an outbuilding safely and effectively won't be very simple or very cheap. Get a book on home wiring to learn the basics. It's not so complicated to do it right, and it's dangerous to do it wrong.

What's the best way to measure temperature in a grow? If you put the thermometer in the light, the light's radiance can give you a much higher reading than even the ambient air temp. If you put the thermometer below the leave canopy, the temperature reading is much lower. Measured at the...

Depending on what powders you're working with, you may be able to make a concentrated liquid using measured amounts of water and your nutrient and then apply that concentrate with a syringe or pipette.

I like the idea extended light too and hereby bump this post in the hope that it will be further discussed.

Ridiculous? OK, to you the above described is a recreation of nature. To me, it looks more like a factory or industrial chicken production. It's striking to me to see this plant thrive even in the extremely artificial conditions in which we grow it. Mind you, I'm not putting this artificial...

Cool, thanks. But re. the trichs being produced as a response to UVB, (or other light exposure), here's what I don't get. If the plant needs protection from any component of light, why are the trichs only produced during the flowering phase, and not right from the seedling stage, and why would...

LOL, my plants have their roots in perlite/vermiculite, are fed nutrients from a bottle, are lighted from an hps lamp, and as isolated as I can make them from non-me life forms. They may as well be orbiting Neptune in a space capsule for all Mother Nature has to do with them.

That is really interesting, especially the notion of using longer days on a plant variety with a lower critical time factor. But I have never heard of any variety bred to have a shorter critical light period. Wonder why not?

riddleme, thanks for your response. Just wondering why you say that you wouldn't do it again. Did topping the bud have some negative effect?

Hey Whiteflour, thanks for the response. I'm real interested in the relationship between uv radiation and resin/bud development. I have seen popcorn buds grow in very low light, (beneath a scrog canopy), and though their flower structure seemed much less dense compared to the buds growing...

Well a watt consumed yields a given quantity of heat, (hps, fluorescent; it doesn't matter), so all I'd think you need to do is to total up the watt hours of consumption, (a 1000 watt light system operating for one hour will consume one kilowatt-hour of electricity). Once you have that info...

I believe if all men waited for such women, ours would be humanity's final generation.

Well obviously you have a short term need of a new girlfriend. But in the longer run, assuming she puts the pollinator to good, you might consider trying to get back with her.