Tell that to my rotting girls.
Can't have one without the other. As is already said normal greenhouse materials block all UV.
If you can do a modded design at least you can let in some sun during midday. I feel you on the rott, but here its usually quite sunny all the way into october. Seems like the way climate change has worked out in our region is that all seasons just arrive and stay a little later. We had our spring rains in may/june this year and outdoor is doable thru october usually.
Thx for the maps
This is not really true these days, there are many different types of glass and plastic used in greenhouse production, most of which does now allow uv rays through. I have even seen them advertised in home use greenhouses sold at local hardware stores. The material doesn’t last as long as the traditional plastics used in the cheaper greenhouses though.
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I think you actually described well why outdoors is better
Exactly because of the stable environment indoors with no pests and no variation in light and temperature, the plants are not stimulated to "defend" (inc. with cannabinoids and terpenes) against harsh and variable conditions. Proper outdoors triggers all defending mechanisms without damaging the plants (much). Of course, outdoors conditions are harder to control and so there's more risk, esp. where conditions are not optimal for cannabis, so you might actually get a better product indoors. But proper outdoors will continue to be the best.
Youre likely referring to indoor hps vrs outdoor: this has nothing to do with the place but the spectrum. More blue in sunlight (5600k) means more leaf, top cannopy behavior. HPS is less leafy of course but youd be blind if you havent seen some pretty leafy 5000k based ledplants around.
Yes, inter nodes are not only depending on blue content, intensity matters a lot aswell. I actually have experience of this: in our grow we only use leds built by me, going from 5000k white base (in late veg so hard to say how it looks in flower) to very red heavy +60% red flower leds. When we take our clones from straight 3000k 80cri white to the late veg lights you defo see a slight shortening of growth. Leaf size about the same but those extra blue light also have a bit of red 660 in them, which tend to grow bigger leaves. Hypothesis,: When the plant sees a lot of red and blue it feels wow, perfect conditions for growing as much as i can and has a very nice growth behavior. But you need some green aswell, im not calling for blurple
Do you find your Mars hydro leafier than HPS? How would it compare to outdoors? Genuine interest
Pretty much my impression aswell; maybe not always stronger but a fuller, wider richer type of buzz, but rough looking buds with harder fibery texture for outdoors. Thx anyways
