White Beard
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I can’t look at strains or growlogs or seed releases without wanting to grow them out and explore them, and that always leads to me facing hypothetical questions like ‘how on earth would I make sense out of that?’
Say I had three cut-only moms: just shove them all in the same tent? How does th at work long-term? Constant topping? Clone the hell out of them? It seems to me that’s pretty haphazard as a way of working with them ongoing.
I know there are creative, capable, well-skilled and well-organized folks here with more plants than I’ve ever seen. I’m sure this has been looked at hard, and I hope to hear growers and breeders talk about how growroom design and managing both breeding and production stock have evolved for them over the years and the seasons.
I am what you might call a long-term beginner: started sucking up every crumb of info, good and bad, back in the 60s, and have refreshed myself about every five years since then (it takes a year or two to ge back up to speed each time), but now things are coming together for the first time, and vision is my only limit so I want to think big from the start.
An example of this is that I know I will want to keep at least some males, and that has led me to consider permanent boxes with real ports, fittings, filters, etc. This of course causes me to consider making them as independent as possible, which causes me to think about lighting options for long-term plant maintenance, and wheels for easy relocation...just to name a few.
Another example is lighting: I’ve narrowed lighting down to CMH options, and I know that there were ballasts switchable from 315 to 210, and I know that many ballasts are dimmable, so I wonder how any of that might serve keeping a plant healthy and alive . I also wonder if CFL might provide better “storage conditions”.
And there are research questions: will cannabis eventually become senescent and simply fail? Is there a light level/schedule that will cause cannabis to become dormant? Will using dimmable ballasts allow mimicry of seasonal variation, and will that result in an improved result? Will dimming allow affect growth rate without adverse other effects?
So please, join in, I can use the reality check and the fresh ideas!
Say I had three cut-only moms: just shove them all in the same tent? How does th at work long-term? Constant topping? Clone the hell out of them? It seems to me that’s pretty haphazard as a way of working with them ongoing.
I know there are creative, capable, well-skilled and well-organized folks here with more plants than I’ve ever seen. I’m sure this has been looked at hard, and I hope to hear growers and breeders talk about how growroom design and managing both breeding and production stock have evolved for them over the years and the seasons.
I am what you might call a long-term beginner: started sucking up every crumb of info, good and bad, back in the 60s, and have refreshed myself about every five years since then (it takes a year or two to ge back up to speed each time), but now things are coming together for the first time, and vision is my only limit so I want to think big from the start.
An example of this is that I know I will want to keep at least some males, and that has led me to consider permanent boxes with real ports, fittings, filters, etc. This of course causes me to consider making them as independent as possible, which causes me to think about lighting options for long-term plant maintenance, and wheels for easy relocation...just to name a few.
Another example is lighting: I’ve narrowed lighting down to CMH options, and I know that there were ballasts switchable from 315 to 210, and I know that many ballasts are dimmable, so I wonder how any of that might serve keeping a plant healthy and alive . I also wonder if CFL might provide better “storage conditions”.
And there are research questions: will cannabis eventually become senescent and simply fail? Is there a light level/schedule that will cause cannabis to become dormant? Will using dimmable ballasts allow mimicry of seasonal variation, and will that result in an improved result? Will dimming allow affect growth rate without adverse other effects?
So please, join in, I can use the reality check and the fresh ideas!
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