Pal, i have prolly contributed the most info to this thread that's on topic explaining what marijuana plants (=a smoking product) really are and how they behave in different growing styles. So don't fucking tell me how it all works or that i don't understand the topic.We just tried to help , if you dont see the relation between lights and quality of buds its senseless anyway.
Might be boring to people wich do not understand.
No, Lumen is weighted completely different it factors green (550nm) much more in than blue or red:
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But photosynthesis is based on quanta of photons. It doesn't matter (bluntly speaking) if a blue, green or red (*and darkred) photon gets captured by chlorophyll - because either has enough energy to do photochemical work.
I think that when we talk about the number of photons available to the plant that this mostly affects how much harvest we pull in terms of dry-matter weight.Agreed on the last, it dosent really matter which photon from the PAR range hits the plant.
You still haven't addressed the topic i spoke about, about low initial count diodes and adding their output even though they are in different places across the canopy.
I fear all your arguments about LEDs are right, but you still miss the big picture.
The big picture is like i said, they are low intensity lights (40 LM) each, putting them from here to Thailand wont make it better, you cannot stick a diode on top of a diode, you must put it next to it and so on.
Reality is ! low initial count lights, no matter HID or LED or CFL, dont have enough PAR energy to saturate plants enough to induce the protection elements we all look for,
So yeah 0.2w of light will grow nice healthy plants (LED prove this) but it will do little for other effects like protection of the same plant (trichome developing)
You can see it with your own eyes, just look at Brother Nature bud..
No hard feeling brother, you can be an amazing grower, and i believe you are, but something is putting sticks in your wheels, that something is the LED you are using to induce defense and protection effects from the plant, you need to know that this effect require 1 thing:
HIGH INTENSITY SOURCE.
People think they can add LM\PAR of the diode on the right side of the panel with the diode on the left side of the panel, truth is the further those low powered diodes gets from each other, the worse it gets in terms of saturation places under them.
From 30 cm distance
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Isn't it amazing how suddenly ~~70% of the photons just vanish? XD Apparently an additional 30cm distance is too problematic for gauge bosons that travels at lightspeed! Now where are they? The tent is closed. Its surface is high reflective.