ISmokePotBecauseItsCool
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So I have read a thread or 2 like this in the Advanced Cultivation forum, but considering the concept is not all that advanced, I figured this would be just as good a forum to talk about it, and wanted to get the opinions/experiences from you organic guys on this
Now I have been doing a seemingly endless amount of reading, research, and asking questions regarding this, and would like to open it up to discussion
So its a pretty well know fact the cannabis grown outside will ALWAYS thrive more and grow much larger/produce better yield than that grown indoors. But why? People spend hundreds, even thousands of $ on op set ups, just to find that they cannot produce the same indoors as outdoors. Regardless of whether you use MH, HPS, CFL's, LED's, etc, theres just no comparison to real sunlight. Why? You could put a 1000w HPS on 1 plant with perfect conditions and nutrients and medium and everything, and not produce what you could off of the same plant if raised on good old fashioned sunlight.
Why? Well, it is my beliefe that it is simply because of the lack of spectrum....think about it, what single light gives you a REAL full spectrum? None whatsoever can accomplish this task.
And you may say "Oh, well, my LED's emit only the light thats absorbed by the plant, so its perfect for growing". WRONG
Yes, your plants need light in the blue spectrum to thrive during veg. Yes, your plants need light in the red spectrum to thrive during flower. But do you really believe thats all the light they need to truly thrive? Why is it that cannabis(and all other plants for that matter) do so well in sunlight? Its all about getting a full, well rounded spectrum of light, as well as loads of UVB light. Thats the only factor that gets left out when growing indoors, so it would make sense that this would be the main limiting factor to growing indoors.
Solution? The only way I can think that you could come close to mimicking sunlight would be a combination of lighting, such as using MH, HPS, and UVB lights all together for flower to maximize yield and quality.
Now I know this all is not news to most people here, I am just interested to get opinions of others. What Im really hoping to see is someone else who maybe had these same ideas and decided to test them using several different growspaces with the same strain of mj but all using different lighting combinations.
Any opinions/comments/corrections would be greatly appreciated. I dont pretend to be a genius or a scientist or a veteran grower. I am a rookie grower who just happens to have a boner for science
Now I have been doing a seemingly endless amount of reading, research, and asking questions regarding this, and would like to open it up to discussion
So its a pretty well know fact the cannabis grown outside will ALWAYS thrive more and grow much larger/produce better yield than that grown indoors. But why? People spend hundreds, even thousands of $ on op set ups, just to find that they cannot produce the same indoors as outdoors. Regardless of whether you use MH, HPS, CFL's, LED's, etc, theres just no comparison to real sunlight. Why? You could put a 1000w HPS on 1 plant with perfect conditions and nutrients and medium and everything, and not produce what you could off of the same plant if raised on good old fashioned sunlight.
Why? Well, it is my beliefe that it is simply because of the lack of spectrum....think about it, what single light gives you a REAL full spectrum? None whatsoever can accomplish this task.
And you may say "Oh, well, my LED's emit only the light thats absorbed by the plant, so its perfect for growing". WRONG
Yes, your plants need light in the blue spectrum to thrive during veg. Yes, your plants need light in the red spectrum to thrive during flower. But do you really believe thats all the light they need to truly thrive? Why is it that cannabis(and all other plants for that matter) do so well in sunlight? Its all about getting a full, well rounded spectrum of light, as well as loads of UVB light. Thats the only factor that gets left out when growing indoors, so it would make sense that this would be the main limiting factor to growing indoors.
Solution? The only way I can think that you could come close to mimicking sunlight would be a combination of lighting, such as using MH, HPS, and UVB lights all together for flower to maximize yield and quality.
Now I know this all is not news to most people here, I am just interested to get opinions of others. What Im really hoping to see is someone else who maybe had these same ideas and decided to test them using several different growspaces with the same strain of mj but all using different lighting combinations.
Any opinions/comments/corrections would be greatly appreciated. I dont pretend to be a genius or a scientist or a veteran grower. I am a rookie grower who just happens to have a boner for science
