Weed Science - eBook download, Plasma lighting test

Hobbes

Hobbes

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VTMi'kmaq said:
Ahhh so they have there heads screwed on straight! my family come from p.e.i. area and ya know im surprised i dont see more canadians on dragons den trying to get them to finance a medical grow! America will never realize this cash cow unless it pulls its head outa its ass!
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LOL!

THAT would be the ultimate show. My son loves that show, he'd go apeshit if I got on it for a medical grow.

It's not the police who worry me but the crooks. I had one piece of shit painting next door to me look through my bedroom window and see my Volcano on my dresser and try to break in. I told him that I had him on security camera then called the cops in for a visit, haven't seen him since.

I told him that if anyone broke in, whether he was involved or not, that he'd be in court as an accomplice. Spooked him straight, if only for a little while. Douchebag.

Do not take food off of your brother's plate.

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Hobbes

Hobbes

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Brother Numsi said:
I'm trying to find a pic of the trough reflector, but to no avail. Does it spread the light out better or focus it in a narrow fashion? Wanting to learn :)
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Brother the light mover is the single biggest improvement that I did to my garden, doubles the size. Your main light is the only one that you will need, just turn your buckets a quarter turn a half dozen times per light cycle so all parts of the bucket are in the centre bright area.

Light movers are great for continuous grows, I get 12 grow spaces and have my mature ( about to be harvested ) plants in the middle with the young plants on the outer edges while they don't need as much light. The centre of your run gets more light than the edges.

The only Elliptical Trough Reflector is in my mind, it's a concept that I have been waiting for lighting technology to catch up to. My garden is 3' wide and 8' long, my ETR is 30" wide and has two sides. Each side is shaped in an Ellipse, turned upside down the ETR would look like a trough that a horse drinks out of.

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I'll find you a link to my old thread and edit it in here.

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This is one of the most important threads that I've done, we built our model for light receptors and how they overload and go offline. This is the logic that lead me to purchase a Light Rail, after my light my most important tool in my garden.

https://www.rollitup.org/advanced-marijuana-cultivation/314052-plant-light-receptors.html

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Eliptical Reflectors

https://www.google.ca/search?q=elliptical+trough+reflector&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=CRN6ULSzFbTUyQHs3YGwBg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1024&bih=672#biv=i|1;d|0Q01-jDvg4hWkM:

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Hobbes

Hobbes

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I'm looking at these guys for Plasma (Light Emitting Plasma, LEP)

http://plasmagrowlighting.net/Chameleon_Grow_Systems/Solar_Genesis_I_-_Product.html

I'm still cautious of LED single spectrum lighting because of the signalling pathways. Light Reflectors are not mechanical solar panels, there are more to them than light in = chemical energy out.

There are plant light receptors for different frequencies of light and forcing all receptors to work on a handful of frequencies will stress the plants, possibly causing hermying as happened to me with DJ Short's Flo when I used 7 band UFO LED.

Providing high levels of energy in only a few bands can also destroy the light receptors within those bands, causing a washed out look to the plants while reducing the plant's ability to convert light energy to chemical energy.

I'm still looking for the perfect light for my test but I do love Chameleon's logo. ;-)

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Hobbes

Hobbes

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Shwagbag said:
Based on my experience with LED's thus far, I would say they're not ready for optimizing yields with cannabis, although based on the specs of that light they appear to be getting closer. I've seen some plasma grows that yielded great though! Good luck with your decision Hobbes.
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I'm thinking of using a simple 250 watt HPS and adapting my equipment for the first grow and seeing what kind of yield that I can manage, then going with a plasma on the next grow. I don't like the idea of using only 3 spectrums (2 red and 1 blue) when I feel that much of a plant's growth is due to colour and intensity signals. Colour signals that may be beyond and LED's range.

The most important thing for me this grow is setting up my Elliptical Trough Reflector and I'm still working one how to build it. Most likely bent wire, Reflectix and Duct tape. With a 250 watt light I'm thinking an 8" aperature, or an 8" light beam traveling up and down the garden to trigger the plant's light receptors. My whole experiment is based on light intensity as opposed to average lumens in the garden as both LED and plasma advertise now.

Does anyone know what is meant by "1 gram per watt".

I'm still trying to figure out if it's 1 dried gram per watt, then how dry, or if it's 1 harvested gram per watt.

I'm going to be growing in an 8'x3' area with a 250 watt HPS. 19 buckets in total, 13 buckets of marijuana and 6 buckets of Artemisia Annua (malaria medicine).

2 buckets of Flo,
1 bucket of Querkle,
1 bucket of The Flav,
1 bucket of Agent Orange,
1 bucket of Motivation,
1 bucket of Chocolope,
1 bucket of AK47,
1 bucket of White Russian,
1 Bucket of Bubblegum,
1 bucket of Kush Berry,
1 Bucket of Bubba Kush
1 bucket of Cheese

With possible changes for

Res' Killer Chem Dog
Peak's Blue Berry
DNA's Sour Cream

Regular seeds and possible male plants are screwing up my thinking.

2 of each plant per bucket, except for Flo where I will have 3 plants per bucket. 28 marijuana plants and 12 Artemesia Annua plants.

4 feet of pre stretched stem per bucket (2 plants topped and grown to 12" each of 4 stems), stretched equivalent of 6 feet per bucket (nodes would be further apart).

The bottle neck will definitely be the light.

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My goal will be 50 grams cured (200 grams harvest) per bucket, with more of cheese and less of Flo. An equivalent of 1000 cured grams for the garden over 250 watts, or 4 grams per watt, due to:

1. Light mover - double's space
2. Root pruning buckets - increase nutrient delivery to top side of plants
3. 2 or more plants per bucket for increased root density and root mass per watt / area
4. Crop Circle Of Bud - low stress training to get intense light to all of plants
5. Flood cycle watering to push air through to roots and to shock roots into absorbing nutes
6. Elliptical Trough Reflector to create and intense light beam to turn off light receptors

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Thoughts?

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natro.hydro

natro.hydro

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Not a whiz with computers and opening files but it says the links for the weed science book are broken? What happened with this experiment?
 
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