Uncle Ben's Gardening Tweeks and Pointers

HydroGp said:

You people should not engage with strangers Momma told me that and im stickin to it.

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Ah, have you seem the puppy test? Telling them, doesn't seem to work well, and even the puppy test is soon forgotten.

Re-tests show that.And I would be taken up and swatted, if I ever talked that way to an adult, stranger or not. And face to face, one does know for whom that bell tolls.

And the girlfriend? Why jump in? Girlfriend asks like this a pick and choose bawdy house. (gender not applicable for Ben)

No I want HER answer. (she won't answer that)

WHaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

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  Originally Posted by Doer
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jamthe3 said:

You're kind of a jerk, huh? Doubt he'd give much credence to your answer anyways...he prob posted here to get the OP's input. Perhaps if yu start yur own thread title "Doer's tweaks and pointers" and kept the juvenile antics out he'd ask you there.

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Will you young peeps.... That really do not understand anything just shut up on this Thread...

Your opinion on how to ask a question is so very petty and childish... Grow up Idiots...

This is the

• Advanced Marijuana Cultivation
• Uncle Ben's Gardening Tweeks and Pointers

... go cry over in the newbie section...

Brilliant .sig you have there sand4.

When I used to do phone support we had be very careful and go slow. So I say:

"Just type this. cd space \."

And I hear the guy muttering, c d s p a c e b a c k s l a....."

OK chillen, tell ya what daddy-o is gonna do fer ya. I'll publish a list of links I drafted and updated on a continual basis when I did a Link-O-Rama at the oldest, biggest, and best cannabis growing website there ever was. This thread was very much like this one but more of a question/answer format. Went at least 500,000 views and thousands of posts before OG went down for good. (Owner of biggest seedbank in the world got busted). Scroll down and you'll see some of the results of my research on lighting. Having said that, most of these links are probably dead but you can use the terms for a Google. Enjoy.......

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Word to the wise - buy a good grow book and check out some books from the library on plant culture, especially indoor growing. Grow some radishes, lettuce, and tomatoes before you jump into this hobby - you'll learn alot from that experience and will save yourself alot of grief. Alot of folks have never grown anything in their life (and that's OK), just don't set yourself up for failure. Best advice to ya - learn what makes a plant tick, and the rest will come easy.

I recommend the purchase of a book like Mel Frank's MJ Growers Insider's Guide or Jorge Cervantes . It is your shortcut to success, complete with graphs, photos, tables, and text regarding outdoor and indoor growing. There are alot of mailorder vendors that will ship discretely and can be trusted to respect your need for privacy. I can recommend FS Books for those in the USA.

Grow hard and well,
Uncle Ben

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This is a composite of what I consider some of the best cannabis and indoor plant
cultivation sites available on the web. If anyone has any revisions or additions to this little
ditty that you feel merit consideration, please let me know. Also, if there are any dead links
I would appreciate a heads-up on that too. Enjoy and grow hard - Uncle Ben
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DIGICAM CHAT FORUMS:

My favorite chat forum and an excellent resource for cam info:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/

Monthly digicam mag:
http://www.megapixel.net/html/issueindex.html
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GENERAL PLANT CULTURE

Factors affecting Respiration:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page28.html

Plant hormones and growth substances:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page30.html

How high temperatures can damage plants:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page40.html

Relationship between Photosynthesis, Respiration, and Light Intensity:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page54.html

Images of Cannabaceae :
http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/FLORA/imaxxcan.htm

Layering:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page89.html

Variances in cloning - you will need Acrobat Reader:
http://www.orst.edu/dept/hort/faculty/Proebsting/hort311/pdf_files/07_Clones1.pdf

Types of Layering:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page90.html

Factors affecting rate of Photosynthesis:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/2385/rate.htm

Topping explained and illustrated:
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/growing/messages/37/37366.shtml

Everything you need to know about worm farming:
http://gnv.fdt.net/~windle/

NUTRIENT ISSUES:

A Systematic Approach to Diagnosing Plant Damage - excellent paper on nutrient imbalances, although formatting is a little hard to follow ~
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/hort/dpd/chemkey.htm

"Miracle" products - caveat emptor:
http://www.noble.org/ag/Soils/MiracleProducts/Index.htm

So you like "rocket fuels"? Download the PDF file and read the results of scientific studies stating that such products as humates and soil activators are worthless:
http://tcebookstore.org/pubinfo.cfm?pubid=934

Plant nutrition:
http://vengers.com/culture/fert.htm

So you like Miracle Grow?
http://mgonline.com/fertilize.html
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/AdeniumsofHawaii/miracle.html

Table 2 reference of the affect of fertilizers on pH and their elemental value:
http://www.ext.msstate.edu/pubs/is372.htm

DIY soil mixes...value of amendments explained:
http://users.anet.com/~manytimes/page41.htm

Organic soil mixes - excellent!
http://www.coastnet.com/~bcga/soil/potmix.html#standard

Explanation of the affects of hormones:
http://www.plant-hormones.info/

Plant nutrition explained by Dyna-Gro staff horticulturist-Essential vs Beneficial:
http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~jerry/orchids/nutri.html

Plant nutrition and The Law of Minimum
http://www.soils.wisc.edu/~barak/soilscience326/primary.htm

Essential elements, element mobility, and pH effect:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page74.html

Nutrients with similar deficiency symptoms:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page78.html

Humate products:
http://www.unifiedsystems.com/humicacids.htm

Damp-Off disease issues:
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG1167.html

Another site that addresses Damping Off diseases - excellent!
http://users.anet.com/~manytimes/page48.htm

Organic Pest Control Vendor:
http://www.ghorganics.com/

Insect Pest Troubleshooting Link
http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/INSECT_ID/AG136/ncstate.html

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Drug testing info. Check out the section "Adulterant and Other Studies"
http://drugtesting.freeservers.com/main.html

Everything you always to ask about Ozone generators but were afraid to ask:
http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html
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LINKS SPECIFIC TO WATER CULTURE

Maximum Yield magazine on hydroponic gardening:
http://www.maximumyield.com/docs/previous_issue.html

Aquaponics culture:
http://www.aquaponics.com/

Excellent online hydro forum and support group
http://www.hydroponicsonline.com/

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LINKS SPECIFIC TO LIGHTING ISSUES: spectrums, photomorphogenesis,
light intensity, regulatory affects, plant responses to MH vs HPS:

Properties of 250W & 400W metal halide lights; check out the Iwasaki 6500K lamp!
http://www.animalnetwork.com/fish2/aqfm/1999/dec/features/2/default.asp

Excellent review of many types of lamps' PAR values, efficiency, etc.
http://www.aquabotanic.com/lightcompare.htm

Indoor lighting - HID's, excellent fluor info:
http://www.vengers.com/faq/faq14sec41.htm#data

Effects of Various Radiant Sources on Plant Growth - affects of MH vs HPS on indoor plant growth: http://ss.jircas.affrc.go.jp/engpage/jarq/33-3/tazawa/tazawa1.htm

Spectral Power Distribution (SPD) graphs of lamps: http://www.squ1.com/index.php?[url]http://www.squ1.com/lighting/lamps.html[/url]

Chat room discussion on the affects of colored light on seedlings and mature plants:
http://www.globalgarden.com/Tomato/Archives/vol.1/0396.html

White paper reflecting the value of colored reflecting surfaces:
http://library.northernlight.com/ZZ19980116010012151.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc

Photomorphogenesis, or the use of colored filters to regulate plant growth/flowering
responses: http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/hort/sctop/photomor/Specfltr.htm

Use of colored row covers to regulate plant growth:
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/hort/sctop/photomor/Rwcvrs.htm

Footcandles, lumens, & PAR:
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Tech/intensorama.html

Light absorption spectrum of leaf chlorophyll and carotenoids:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page24.html

Light quality from artificial sources:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page25.html

Effect of light intensity & CO2 on Photosynthesis:
http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page26.html

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U.S. UNIVERSITY AG PROGRAMS & PLANT CULTURE INFO:

The following is a MUST-READ for the advanced MJ gardener:
MJ Optics - THC influence by UVB radiation
http://freewebhosting.hostdepartment.com/j/jknuc/

Everything you wanted to know about soil preparation/culture but were afraid to ask:
http://www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/flori/growon/index.html

So you're a Micro-biologist? Well, here ya go....about a hundred or so excellent links to botany related websites:
http://www.biol.uni.torun.pl/~henroz/links.html

Plants parts that may be used in vegetative propagation /physiological and environmental factors affecting rooting. Excellent!
http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/tpss/academics/undergraduate/courses/tpss200/vegprop.htm

Plant disease facts:
http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/CASDEPT/PLANT/ext/fact.html

Online Biology Book:
http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

Ohio State Plant Facts:
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/hcs.html

Conversion tables, formulas, and suggested guidelines for horticultural use:
http://www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/B931.htm#Table 25

Texas Aggie Horticulture:
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tamuhort.html
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GROW GUIDES

Marijuana Botany - by Robert Clarke
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/5796/botany.html

Ed Rosenthal's Growing Guide brought to you by the Finnish Cannabis Assoc.
http://www.sky.org/data/mjgrowers.html
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Can't forget our tummies! Cookin' with cannabis:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc10/Choco.html
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VARIOUS CANNABIS WEBSITES -

Klozit King's cannabis culture guide:
http://www.klozitking.com

D.J. Short's Guide to Harvesting/Curing:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc11/harvest.html
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc10/cure.html

Haight Ashbury Website - San Francisco
http://www.sanfranciscobay.com/haightashbury/ie-stoner.htm

Comprehensive cannabis site with pics of males/females and more:
http://www.erowid.org/entheogens/cannabis/cannabis.shtml

Great website links covering all aspects of cannabis issues and culture:
http://www.theflow.nl/flowlnk.htm

More great cannabis websites links:
http://www.thc.nl/ConLinks.htm

High Times Cannabis Culture by Kyle:
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/tow/culq/Welcome.tmpl$showpage?a=46&b=60

BC Growers page -
http://www.coastnet.com/~bcga/bcg.htm

Amsterdam growers:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hempy/index.html

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UNITED STATES

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Diamond Lights: http://www.diamondlights.com/

Charley's Greenhouse: http://www.charleysgreenhouse.com/

Alternative Garden: http://www.alternativegarden.com/

Discount Hydroponics: http://www.discount-hydro.com/

Discount Garden: http://www.discountgarden.com/

Greenfire Gardening Supplies: http://www.greenfire.net/

Eco Hydroponics: http://www.ecogrow.com/

General Hydroponics: http://www.genhydro.com/systems.html

Greenair: http://www.greenair.com/product.htm

Greentrees: http://www.greentrees.com/

Harvest Moon: http://hmoonhydro.com/store/store.cgi

Home Harvest: http://homeharvest.com/table.htm

How-to-Hydro: http://howtohydroponics.com/

Hydroasis: http://hydroasis.com/

InterUrban: http://www.interurban.com/

Light Mfg: http://www.litemanu.com/menu.html

Pacific Hydro: http://www.pacific-hydro.com/

Simply Hydro: http://www.simplyhydro.com/products.htm

Superior Grower Supply: http://www.sgs-hydroponic.com/contents.htm

Worm's Way:
http://www.wormsway.com/

CANADA

Brite Lite Hydroponics
http://www.hydroponix.com

B & B Hydroponics
http://www.bandbhydroponics.com

BC Hydroponics: http://www.bchydroponics.com/

Homegrown Hydro: http://www.hydroponics.com/

Jon's Plant Factory: http://www.jonsplantfactory.com/

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND

Hydro Shop:
http://www.hydroshop.com.au/

Accent Hydro:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~accent/hobby_cat/hobcat.html

Hydro Warehouse:
http://www.hydroponics.webcentral.com.au/catalogue/catalog.htm

HighLife Hydro: http://www.highlife.com.au/products.htm

New Zealand hydro: http://www.nzero.co.nz/hydropon/index.htm

UK

Evergreen Hydroponics
http://www.pavilion.co.uk/evergreen/

Esoteric Hydroponics
http://www.blunt.co.uk/

Nutriculture Hydroponic Systems - builds NFT systems etc.
http://www.nutriculture.co.uk/

Holland Hydroponics:
http://www.hydroponics.co.uk/html/products.html

Various Retailers:
http://www.ukcia.org/green/default.htm#horticulture

FRANCE:

Growing supplies: http://hydroid.free.fr/

If you can't grow something, you can't grow this. If you can grow anything, this is rather easy, compared to Orchids.

Does he really expect us to read????? Yes.

Doer said:

Does he really expect us to read????? Yes.

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Yep, and maybe it will shut up the kids. Have to spoon feed some of these brats, not that they'll bother to do ANY research on their own. Trolling good people and threads is more fun.

I see this one is still good, perhaps there's more. http://generalhorticulture.tamu.edu/lectsupl/print/page26.html

jamthe3 said:

But @ that brief period of time what would be the harvest, lol, 2 grms? 7 grams? Space, time, work, cost to return vs what could use those resources and return a quarter pound. These are all factors which myself I'd rather just move on to greener pastures...we're all different to be sure, but most in my country, if supposedly allowed to grow at all have plant # restrictions. I'd rather the other 50% of my plant count be producing at as high a return as my limited skills are capable of...just saying.

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Definitely a different situation for me. I see your point for sure, the time and money spent to get a male to harvest point is not well invested money or time. My only point was having a male in the batch is not necessarily a total loss. For most commercial growers or anybody growing for money it certainly doesn't pay to keep them around.

Hey Yubee, thanks largely to your counsel I:

am successfully into second grow (3 harvesting, ~7 to go in coming weeks)
use 1 gal microkote (copper lined) pots between beer cups and final 3-6 gallon home [as I upskill I'll germ directly into the 1 gallons and cut out water germ'ing (towel or cup) and 1 of my two transplants]
use variations on 4-cola method
have had good success with dyna gro foliage pro (also got 7-9-5, and calmag, and DG protekt) as chem only grow, but also continuing to try organic 'super soil' vic or subcool or whoever's before I settle on one culture running organic for grow #1 and a half (all my regular seeds) for this grow. All my femin. sedes are pure dyna gro except a little warrior in the beer cups to smooth over transition from the cotys to chems.



Oh, and in my past life I was in the fund industry and I'll add that you seem to have your shit together there too - referring to a couple of posts you made in December when you got spooked about what could be viewed as market froth.

from grow 1 (may to oct last year) 600w HPS and 400 mh/hps [had both running by flowering's end]





Much 'shorter' veg for grow 2 (Oct to Feb 2014) mainly because used a bunch of 23w CFLs not 400 MH as used in my grow 1 (though in fact both were around 60 days from seed).

These highlites pics from grow 2 either cut or to be cut in next





















So, thanks UB !

Jbone77 said:

Asking for clarification is not asking for help, maybe we have different meanings to the word stranger. So do you use MH bulbs? Maybe you can clarify this since you are a regular in the botany lab and arent just a newbie like me.

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Careful, Doer is not only a master botanist, he also has a yellow belt in Quack-Fu

And you prove it is entirely possible to exist solely, as a giant asshole.

All you produce is forum stink.

growbig78 said:

Hey Yubee, thanks largely to your counsel I:

am successfully into second grow (3 harvesting, ~7 to go in coming weeks)
use 1 gal microkote (copper lined) pots between beer cups and final 3-6 gallon home

So, thanks UB !

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Looks good. Backyard looks like my old one! You can make the copper paint on the cheap buying the copper off ebay and mixing your own with latex paint. See my Spin-out thread for directions and product links.

Uncle Ben said:

Looks good. Backyard looks like my old one! You can make the copper paint on the cheap buying the copper off ebay and mixing your own with latex paint. See my Spin-out thread for directions and product links.

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Sup Ub.. ? I have a defficiency for you at my sig..can you check it out ? last post

Uncle Ben said:

Looks good. Backyard looks like my old one! You can make the copper paint on the cheap buying the copper off ebay and mixing your own with latex paint. See my Spin-out thread for directions and product links.

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Took your suggestion and tried out the copper-lined idea, and think I liked what it did for my root development. Bought 20 pots for like $2 each online and haven't worn them out yet. But I'll look into it when I get to next level in my growing, thank you again man.

As to my yard, yeah, it was bulk collection time and I missed it, stoner I guess. The mattress has been moved so I'm only a little bit like white trash. Unless you meant the color etc., which could be because I'm in So TX - I think that's your old stomping grounds but I might have remembered wrong, those threads of yours are hundreds of pages and it's been 5 months since I read most of them (this one, 4-top, microkote, another or 2).

I've cloned my tops, and now had to top those clones -it's exciting when it works - and I'm learning how the plants react, although it will probably become easier once I've adopted a favored strain or two to grow familiar with. One area I'm working on that you don't bother much with is after I topped, I pinched the 4 main tops a bit - not as you do it to control sativas, but to learn best range for my own grows about bud distribution and how many "primary" branches you can grow before it ends in diminishing returns. I'm indoors so I'm working to try to spread my grow to best exploit my artificial light.

Very likely I'll end up where you already are, just going with the 4 main branches.

Again, your advice has been rock solid, even when it's just to figure it out for ourselves.

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Again, your advice has been rock solid, even when it's just to figure it out for ourselves.

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Thank you. S. Texas, man it's hard to grow down there. Also hard on man and beast. The valley, CC, Cuero, Kingsville, Victoria....too damn hot.

One of my tweeks is the temp differential. Found it out when I moved from S. Texas north with ALL plant material. Heck, our best tomatoes are in July and August where I'm at now and I can finally grow anything I want.

Doer said:

And you prove it is entirely possible to exist solely, as a giant asshole.

All you produce is forum stink.

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Speaking of assholes ..... go back and read some of your own posts. You offer more ridicule than you do advice. You need to brush up on both your gardening skills, and your people skills.

You and your mentor are more interested in stroking your egos than helping people. It's good for the occasional laugh.

Uncle Ben said:

Grow hard,
UB

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Those links need to be updated some of them are atrocious
zone alarm dude, seriously ..

HydroGp said:

My guess is split personality or just two usernames. Time for a picture aint it. I call it-Man and his Dog.

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nice hybrid type big leaves on that dog kush going to give that a run one day

This thing had the biggest fan leaves i think i have seen, shame it didn't correspond to a plant i liked though (fire alien kush)
the leaves were bigger than my hands when it was a 2-3 week old seedling


peace

skunkd0c said:

Those links need to be updated some of them are atrocious
zone alarm dude, seriously ..

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Then update them and stop yer bitchin'.

I read an article recently regarding Vapor Pressure Differential (VPD). In a nutshell, the explanation deals with relative humidity conditions in a controlled environment affecting water uptake by plants. The differential value between the average vapor pressure inside the leaf (and on the surface?) and the relative humidity of the grow room needs to be within a certain range in order for the stomata in the leaves to properly transpire. The article made a lot of sense regarding ideal humidity of controlled grow environments, also explained symptoms that could occur if this differential value was out of wack. The article suggested relative humidity in a grow room is usually optimal somewhere around 50-60%. This, of course is just a range they discovered using their grow techniques, their plants, their watering system and grow environment controls. All that being said, the question I have is why wouldn't a very much lower humidity level in a grow room actually help the transportation of water and nutrients through the plant? It seems to me with a higher VPD, the plant is transpiring more to try to equalize the pressure between the plant surface and the surrounding area. In other words, the lower the relative humidity in the grow room should equate to more water being used, right? More water being taken up by the plant could potentially mean more nutrients taken up as well if you are including nutrients in the water. My situation is exactly that. I have a very low relative humidity in my grow area where I grow herbs, vegies and cannabis. Occasionally, my humidity will spike when water gets in the basement and lays on the floor for a couple days until drying out. When the water comes the humidity level sits around 70% and the plants use very little water on a daily basis. When the basement is bone dry, my humidity sits around 20-30% and the plants go through at least twice the amount of water on a daily basis. I just went through this cycle in the last 30 days. I had flooding in the area and water came in like it normally does spiking my humidity. My plant's growth rate slowed tremendously. I dried out the basement with a shop vac and dehumidifier dropping the RH to almost 25%. My plants took off like crazy! They consumed twice the amount of water (and Jack's Classic) which spiked the growth rate. So the question is, why wouldn't growers take advantage of a LOWER humidity level in their environment instead of trying so hard to bring it up to over 50%? I see so many growers struggling to keep humidity levels high when in fact, my experience shows me the lower levels actually create a faster moving process for me. Any thoughts on this? Am I missing something about the whole process? I value your opinion above so many others because I know you're a Master Gardener and you have a vast knowledge of plant processes. I would love to get your take on this, it could change the way some growers handle their indoor environments.