I have an idea forming and I wanted to run it by you. Hopefully some experts will have time to chime in.
In my last harvest, I had gone completely organic and had extreme delays in flowering, though I was not adding any nitrogen they still looked more green than they should have by that time. The lighting was 75% daylight tubes and 25% warm white tubes(3000K).
It is my understanding that between the plant and the rhizosphere, there are signals exchanged chemically and electrically. These signals help the soil biology enable the plant to maximize it's potential and in turn bring that energy from the sun down into their world. In organic growing this means you can have all the major nutrients and micro nutrients in the soil sequestered until needed. Something must trigger the changes in the plant to adjust the signals it gives the rhizosphere. Obviously 12/12 lighting makes some differences, but I am guessing that the color of the light may factor into it a lot. Chemical growers might not see this as much due to how they force feed the plant foods with low nitrogen.
To test this I am putting a 250W HPS above my plants in addition to the fluoro tubes I am using vertically. After a day of this I can already smell changes. Is this the microbiology adjusting?
Has anyone else experienced too much nitrogen uptake under blue light?
In my last harvest, I had gone completely organic and had extreme delays in flowering, though I was not adding any nitrogen they still looked more green than they should have by that time. The lighting was 75% daylight tubes and 25% warm white tubes(3000K).
It is my understanding that between the plant and the rhizosphere, there are signals exchanged chemically and electrically. These signals help the soil biology enable the plant to maximize it's potential and in turn bring that energy from the sun down into their world. In organic growing this means you can have all the major nutrients and micro nutrients in the soil sequestered until needed. Something must trigger the changes in the plant to adjust the signals it gives the rhizosphere. Obviously 12/12 lighting makes some differences, but I am guessing that the color of the light may factor into it a lot. Chemical growers might not see this as much due to how they force feed the plant foods with low nitrogen.
To test this I am putting a 250W HPS above my plants in addition to the fluoro tubes I am using vertically. After a day of this I can already smell changes. Is this the microbiology adjusting?
Has anyone else experienced too much nitrogen uptake under blue light?