LED and BUD QUALITY

[Prawn Connery]

One thing I have been experimenting with is putting my light panels on an angle to give more light to the sides, less loss on the walls and a greater canopy penetration. It's worked quite well.
I must have deleted the picture of my twin panels on the angle but I found this one. Bit of a Mish mash of what I had left over + some old 4000k panels

Nice. I've done the reverse with the strips along the side facing up 22.5 degrees (half of 45 degrees). This gives side and under-canopy lighting at the same time. More Insta photos. This is an older grow, I'll try to update some photos later.

 

[Prawn Connery]

Wappa is texting spelling for guapa, in spanish, meaning Gorgeous or Beautiful (fem/girl). Ive heard nothing but good about it but i never see it in the smoke clubs. This maybe something to try out...
Im glad to see you back posting

It's a nice hardy Skunk variety. It will seem both familiar and exotic at the same time, because IMO it has a better high and taste. There are other strains out there that might be better, but few that combine so many desirable traits into one plant. It's a good commercial variety and well worth pheno hunting a pack of 5 or 10 fems.

Yeah, I've been busy with other projects so haven't had a lot of time to post lately.

 

[Rocket Soul]

Make a selection and honor your "work" by branding it. Alternatively you can cross it with your current favorite cut and claim the F1 name for having "worked it extensively". In any case your competitors can't easily figure out what you have.
I don't think there's much honesty when it comes to names.


Because shit's expensive. I don't doubt that you understand what you are doing but doing multiple, replicated, studies, with different cultivars but also plant species looking at different aspects of growth, disease resistance and quality/sensory percetions is beyond your capabilities.
That takes research grants.

It depends if you want papers written or just the best setup. Im fully aware of the arduous work of getting that right and what ot feels like when you did it all and got no significant results, womp womp, lol.
I think as you approach the final decimals to be had practice its better just to make your grow into a living experience. But i come from diy, its an different approach.

 

[Scfarmer]

Has anyone attempted a virtual grow with LEDs? I'm tempted to arnage my strips in a 1.5 m high configuration either square /pentagon/hexagon would give me either 600w/ 750w or 900w fixture growing on 3 walls giving me a surface area of 6.75m2

 

[Hiddenjems]

That's one thing I've been searching for! So many years of crappy sub par genetics has been really depressing. I must have tried multiple clones from a friend as well as multiple seeds of different strains from seed banks and so far I've only found one Mimosa that really kicks ass.
I'm hoping something comes from these Amnesia seeds bank seeds but I'm not so confident at the moment that they will stay in rotation.
If anyone has some suggestions for a super quality 8-9 week strain to try next I'd be very happy.

My deathstar clone can finish totally in under 8 weeks.

The best way is to look for strains that are high quality with some examples finishing really fast and others taking the standard 9-10 weeks. Crack 50-100 seeds and select for fast finishing.

 

[Scfarmer]

My deathstar clone can finish totally in under 8 weeks.

The best way is to look for strains that are high quality with some examples finishing really fast and others taking the standard 9-10 weeks. Crack 50-100 seeds and select for fast finishing.

Finding Quality is half the issue. I'm finding seed banks are rarely accurate with their descriptions. I keep falling for the marketing.
Had considered trying Black gorilla next.

 

[Prawn Connery]

The closeup photos I posted are Paradise Seeds Sweetopia. It finishes in 7 weeks, but the yield is low to average. It is probably the favourite clone in my circle. Outstanding quality. One thing about Paradise is their strain descriptions are usually very accurate. I'm currently growing Sunset Paradise, which is described as a 50 day strain and has won a few cups I believe.

Remember also that clones will usually finish up to a week earlier than their seed mothers, so when growing from seed, they always take a little longer, but you end up with a faster finishing clone.

 

[Ca++]

Has anyone attempted a virtual grow with LEDs? I'm tempted to arnage my strips in a 1.5 m high configuration either square /pentagon/hexagon would give me either 600w/ 750w or 900w fixture growing on 3 walls giving me a surface area of 6.75m2

We used to see a lot of vertical growing with HID, but since LED, vertical growing has become a stack of horizontal grows, above each other. Inter-lighting has took off, but the strawberry pot methods are seen less frequently.
Certainly the floor of most tents, isn't as big as just one wall. So working two walls, or even three, is really working it. @PCBuds grew a well side lit plant, but that is the last I saw. This stacked horizontal approach to using vertical space, would be hard with a 2m ceiling. I worked 1.2 meters for a while, and decided I could do it. The upper pots would be in rows, so the lower lights could occupy space between them. An overlap of the two spaces.

The wall grow is awkward. Plants will lean in from the wall. With all the best efforts, A 120cm tent, might have 30cm of plant each side, so a 60cm gap. Lights 30cm from the plants. In this space, working the third wall offers no gain. It's 60cm wide now, but as it grows 30cm deep, it covers 30cm of each side canopy. No net gain to canopy area, from a third wall.
People have built these sort of things, but they seem labour intensive. Your knowledge of the plants is very important, to see exactly when to go 12/12. Most

 

[Ca++]

Human centric lighting would be another application.
High cri, diffuse and a colour (temperature) that complements whatever is shown. Picking the right colour can turn a bland food display into something special.

Them Burple lights to. Should of been left at the 70s disco, not resold to us