All green leafy parts of the plant produce sugar. The color green means photosynthesis is happening, and thus the production of sugar.
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All green leafy parts of the plant produce sugar. The color green means photosynthesis is happening, and thus the production of sugar.
ganjherbsmoke
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Paco
kelly is on the right track. Fan leaves are sugar producers, yes. But they also shade the plants lower parts from light. I always pull fans. maybe a lil more selectively, but it really helps to get light to the inside of the plant.
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Frankie Pebbles
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Hey man, hope you don't mind (if so let me know I'll take em down) but I'm a little bored today
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My picks.
Overall losing the emerald in the middle looks much better!
Ms_Weekend
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Few pics of a recent harvest.....80 days, 2 week cure.
Having a hard time deciding which picture to keep...which one do you guys like better?
Having a hard time deciding which picture to keep...which one do you guys like better?
StrictlyGateway
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i do too....slowly and progressively. anytime i've done too many too fast i've had real issues with burning, having to raise the lights way too high to compensate b/c the lack of light absorbing material left on the plant. i am speaking of 1000 watt hps though, perhaps the 150 is not intense enough to worry about this issue.
kelly, correct, the plant does not need light on the underneath side, but the leaves will adjust to absorb the most amount of light it can, whether that be from above, or from the side. lowering the fluoros will increase the available lumens to the lowers and shouldn't burn or harm anything b/c they are not hot. right now, it looks like the fluoros are just combining with the 150 near the top of the cabinet where there isn't any plant material to absorb. certainly the available lumens in your cabinet are still increased with the current placement, i just feel like you could improve it even more.
RH, prices, . . .
RH, prices, . . .
. . . oh shit I'm puffing on a bowl of Durban Poison, may ramble, will try to hew to the point. Which is, why isn't mmj more expensive here than in Cali? Now to the ramble.
In funkfingers' posts of test results I noticed moisture content of ca 15%, right after I'd read an "ultimate cure" thread here that claimed 55% was ideal RH for MMJ. Thinking about it it seemed to me that (55%) was a Cali-centric number; other than in the middle of a thunderstorm I can't recall seeing 55% here, my lizard skin agrees but I know there's fire in the mountains and on the plains.
Then I thought about the differences in (retail) prices from there to here; for all the stories of folks nearly giving away elbows in the Triangle at harvest I see a gazillion reviews etc of Cali dispensaries with oz prices at/over $400
Here the prices are now consistently lower than Cali, and much lower than just a few months ago. I can go into a lot of places here and toss together an oz for 300 or choose some strains for less. And now a lot of them are getting better quality stuff, more trichs better cures, better grows; a lot of it is up to a 7 of 10 on my scale (What's that, B+).
So my inquiring mind wonders, a lot.
- 15% vs 55% moisture is a huge difference in the final product. That has to affect the economics of every stage of the process. If Co growers were only as good, weightwise, as Calif growers, it should cost us more to get an elbow to market, right? It should, by classic supply/demand laws, be more expensive on the local market. It's not, so something is distorting the market. Either we're REALLY REALLY better growers
- I'd like to think so, but reason forbears -
or our stuff is WAY WAY lower quality - no way, as far as I know
- or it's something else.
So what's depressing the market? I've heard several theories:
- those harvest-time stories are true, it's all excess sub-grade Cali shit
- it's all the newbie get-rich-quick folks here, they'll be out of biz by this summer bcuz of heat/pest/etc probs
- (I love this one, nothing better to rag about than a good conspiracy theory involving them damn furriners unless it's one with the CIdamnA
) it's the Russians, working with the Mexi cartels.
Any other culprits?
I think things are too feverish now to think these are where prices will settle; any ideas, higher/lower? I'm a patient/personal grower, I love lower prices, but at some point you end up with nothing but Wallybud by Pfizer.
And I guess I should forget about a 55% final cure, huh?
Beautiful day, gonna go get an ice cream and go for a walk. Have some more stupid thoughts. Good smoke, good day. Good bye.
I'm just so damn glad to see Spring really here, had to bubble over someplace. These are some of the days that remind me why I love living here, I hope you're all smiling as well. Grow Colorado!
Peace
RH, prices, . . .
. . . oh shit I'm puffing on a bowl of Durban Poison, may ramble, will try to hew to the point. Which is, why isn't mmj more expensive here than in Cali? Now to the ramble.
In funkfingers' posts of test results I noticed moisture content of ca 15%, right after I'd read an "ultimate cure" thread here that claimed 55% was ideal RH for MMJ. Thinking about it it seemed to me that (55%) was a Cali-centric number; other than in the middle of a thunderstorm I can't recall seeing 55% here, my lizard skin agrees but I know there's fire in the mountains and on the plains.
Then I thought about the differences in (retail) prices from there to here; for all the stories of folks nearly giving away elbows in the Triangle at harvest I see a gazillion reviews etc of Cali dispensaries with oz prices at/over $400
Here the prices are now consistently lower than Cali, and much lower than just a few months ago. I can go into a lot of places here and toss together an oz for 300 or choose some strains for less. And now a lot of them are getting better quality stuff, more trichs better cures, better grows; a lot of it is up to a 7 of 10 on my scale (What's that, B+).
So my inquiring mind wonders, a lot.
- 15% vs 55% moisture is a huge difference in the final product. That has to affect the economics of every stage of the process. If Co growers were only as good, weightwise, as Calif growers, it should cost us more to get an elbow to market, right? It should, by classic supply/demand laws, be more expensive on the local market. It's not, so something is distorting the market. Either we're REALLY REALLY better growers
- I'd like to think so, but reason forbears - or our stuff is WAY WAY lower quality - no way, as far as I know
- or it's something else.So what's depressing the market? I've heard several theories:
- those harvest-time stories are true, it's all excess sub-grade Cali shit
- it's all the newbie get-rich-quick folks here, they'll be out of biz by this summer bcuz of heat/pest/etc probs
- (I love this one, nothing better to rag about than a good conspiracy theory involving them damn furriners unless it's one with the CIdamnA
) it's the Russians, working with the Mexi cartels.Any other culprits?
I think things are too feverish now to think these are where prices will settle; any ideas, higher/lower? I'm a patient/personal grower, I love lower prices, but at some point you end up with nothing but Wallybud by Pfizer.
And I guess I should forget about a 55% final cure, huh?
Beautiful day, gonna go get an ice cream and go for a walk. Have some more stupid thoughts. Good smoke, good day. Good bye.
I'm just so damn glad to see Spring really here, had to bubble over someplace. These are some of the days that remind me why I love living here, I hope you're all smiling as well. Grow Colorado!
Peace
You are confusing moisture content of the buds(15%) with the relative humidity of the jars they are curing in (55-65% is ideal).
Fuckin-a, man! I'm stoked about spring too!
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Paco
I read my plants. Yo have to develop a relationship with them. They will tell you what they don't like.
My bad
My bad
Your right, I went back and re-read - the dude was using a hygrometer in a jar. Duh! Forget all that economic shit; did seem a bit bizarre at the time, but what do I know, right?
See what happens when you read hundreds of IC pages? There oughta be a name - newbielock, perhaps?
My bad
Your right, I went back and re-read - the dude was using a hygrometer in a jar. Duh! Forget all that economic shit; did seem a bit bizarre at the time, but what do I know, right?
See what happens when you read hundreds of IC pages? There oughta be a name - newbielock, perhaps?
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