If you want to get colors, what colors are we talking? Purples are fairly easy towards the end of flower. My take on this, somewhat science based and observational:Hello, I read on growweedeasy dot com that you can get more colors on your flowers if you give it cool nights and hot days. Does anybody have experience with this?
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High intensity during the grow and and makeing sure you have flushed well and maybe a bit early. Cold nights should also help but we get purples on all top leaves without any extra attention to night temps. You can also reduce day temps a bit towards the end, if you can do 25C days for the last weeks with full intensity you should get both colors and terp preservation.@Rocket Soul In person you can tell the purple shows up on the stem facing the lights like a type of sun tan as you describe. I want purple because one of my plants has it and I like the Jimi Hendrix song about purple haze. But any of those fall colors like yellow and red are welcome. And it would be easy for me to make colder nights. I'll look up flushing before the time comes and make sure I do that.
How hard do you push your plants with light? What type of lighting? How hard do you flush? Im interested in how much genetic and how much environment determine thisMy temps don't ever get over 70F (usually 65-68F) if I get what I want. Though I do not run hot days, I've noticed each strain has their own color at harvest. I've had light and medium green plants right next to deep purple plants, with the only difference being genetics.
and terp preservation.
the huge temperature swing and if the temperature goes down, relative humidity rises and dense buds can accumulate too much humidity inside. if there is not enough airflow, it is a great playground for fungus. hope my explanation makes sense@aCBD What would cause the budrot? If the buds got too cold?
Airflow, especially under the cannopy is super important. If a lit lighterflame is really "busy" or go out all over your growspace its very hard to get rot. Thats not to say leaves thrashing in the wind, just general airflow all over.the huge temperature swing and if the temperature goes down, relative humidity rises and dense buds can accumulate too much humidity inside. if there is not enough airflow, it is a great playground for fungus. hope my explanation makes sense
Thats a very hot light; high intensity+ heat on the cannopy reduces High irradiation Response. With leds its much more regular, like pretty much every time you flush properly and get a decent fade. With Hids we almost never saw this, leds its like every run at least somewhat and if we done our flushing job properly. I wouldnt be surprised if the were some genetics which will produce more anthocyanin due to genetics so its not two contradictory things, just different lights giving different reactions1K HPS, 4x4, cool and dry environment. Transpiration is very high. 5 days of pure r/o before harvest, but the colors show up before then. All the same environment and treatment, different colors by genetics.