N1ghtL1ght
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Hello fellow farmers,
perhaps a good idea to open a thread here to outline/depict some of the shady experiments I currently do. And have a place for people contacting me, I hail from Central Europe and am big into science with a preference for photobiology, plant physiology and nutrition. Though I'm not a scientist and what I do isn't up to that level but still science is IMO the best adress to get ideas from...
So, have a 3x3 & 4x4 tent with 4 genetics, all clones plus the motherplants as well.
Strains:
ANESIA - Future#1, CherryKiss, "Mix"
KFCseeds - Night, Night [Kali Mist x Green Poison]
(F1, CK, M, NN at labels)
Set to flower 3 days ago. Just made the decision to run the 3x3 with 14/14 just for jolly and see how they fare.
Actually it's no real side-by-side as there are some differences I lack a climate control, the lighting is a bit different in spectrum and angle-of-incident, plus the big tent the plants are way bigger and more adapted to the hot soil (I been overmixing a bit but hope later with more powerfull lamps they use it up).
Setup is 1200m^3 RVK-sileo fan manually regulated, 1080 ccm Carboconne activecoalfilter and mostly HID lamps:
3x3 currently 150w MH + 150w HPS in a reflector
4x4 250w MH + 250w HPS vertical open lamps + some 70w in topdown DIY monochromatic diodes 445 660 730nm
The future plan is to wait until full transition into flower is over, then shwazz/heavy defol, and ramp up wattage to, at least 600w HPS & 250w HPS. Could also do similar with the MH but will have to monitor how they respond to HPS first, as it's summer here.
Some DIY monos for the 3x3 if I got time to fashion it.
As for the plants - why they look so strange you may ask? Well, these were subjected to a heavy farred enriched spectrum (in another tent) and that caused a shade-avoidance syndrome which has several physiological consequences, ie. stretching and big fanleaves, no sideshoots.
Then these were treated with UV-C 254nm radiation in 2 consecutive side-by-side experiments. One plant died, others had almost all their foliage removed.
There were some other experiments which then I had to terminate due to a hardware malfunction. Thus, I put the plants in another tent to recover and now are left with too many but I don't wanna throw them away so will just do that 14/14 even if their shape blows.
I did a full defol on the first day of switch and the little ones in the 3x3 showed apical calyxes after 2 days, the big plants in the 4x4 lack behind by min. a day (or more - some still not show).
The MH starts a bit sooner to wake the plant as studies show that the bluelight-induced stomata opening impulse has a 15min delay:
Plus the sole HPS ending gives of a long farred/IR enriched glow
Somewhat older pic from a week ago
in the meanwhile the whole tent was heavily defoled 2 times, the middle plants supercropped. After the shade-avoid, which I used to gain swiftly height to fill the side walls of the tent quickly in a matter of weeks, the plants now still had to concentrate on developing sideshoots for budsites. I'll cover that and the UV-C results in another post.
Here's the current 3*3
I had these freshly transplanted and basically just hit flower to see how quickly they reacted to get a bit of an idea of what to expect in the big tent. The thought occured to use monster cropping to fill in the canopy swifter and give more veg time for proper root adaptation, but then remembered the 14/14 and quickly programmed a digital timer.
perhaps a good idea to open a thread here to outline/depict some of the shady experiments I currently do. And have a place for people contacting me, I hail from Central Europe and am big into science with a preference for photobiology, plant physiology and nutrition. Though I'm not a scientist and what I do isn't up to that level but still science is IMO the best adress to get ideas from...
So, have a 3x3 & 4x4 tent with 4 genetics, all clones plus the motherplants as well.
Strains:
ANESIA - Future#1, CherryKiss, "Mix"
KFCseeds - Night, Night [Kali Mist x Green Poison]
(F1, CK, M, NN at labels)
Set to flower 3 days ago. Just made the decision to run the 3x3 with 14/14 just for jolly and see how they fare.
Actually it's no real side-by-side as there are some differences I lack a climate control, the lighting is a bit different in spectrum and angle-of-incident, plus the big tent the plants are way bigger and more adapted to the hot soil (I been overmixing a bit but hope later with more powerfull lamps they use it up).
Setup is 1200m^3 RVK-sileo fan manually regulated, 1080 ccm Carboconne activecoalfilter and mostly HID lamps:
3x3 currently 150w MH + 150w HPS in a reflector
4x4 250w MH + 250w HPS vertical open lamps + some 70w in topdown DIY monochromatic diodes 445 660 730nm
The future plan is to wait until full transition into flower is over, then shwazz/heavy defol, and ramp up wattage to, at least 600w HPS & 250w HPS. Could also do similar with the MH but will have to monitor how they respond to HPS first, as it's summer here.
Some DIY monos for the 3x3 if I got time to fashion it.
As for the plants - why they look so strange you may ask? Well, these were subjected to a heavy farred enriched spectrum (in another tent) and that caused a shade-avoidance syndrome which has several physiological consequences, ie. stretching and big fanleaves, no sideshoots.
Then these were treated with UV-C 254nm radiation in 2 consecutive side-by-side experiments. One plant died, others had almost all their foliage removed.
There were some other experiments which then I had to terminate due to a hardware malfunction. Thus, I put the plants in another tent to recover and now are left with too many but I don't wanna throw them away so will just do that 14/14 even if their shape blows.
I did a full defol on the first day of switch and the little ones in the 3x3 showed apical calyxes after 2 days, the big plants in the 4x4 lack behind by min. a day (or more - some still not show).
The MH starts a bit sooner to wake the plant as studies show that the bluelight-induced stomata opening impulse has a 15min delay:
Plus the sole HPS ending gives of a long farred/IR enriched glow
Somewhat older pic from a week ago
in the meanwhile the whole tent was heavily defoled 2 times, the middle plants supercropped. After the shade-avoid, which I used to gain swiftly height to fill the side walls of the tent quickly in a matter of weeks, the plants now still had to concentrate on developing sideshoots for budsites. I'll cover that and the UV-C results in another post.
Here's the current 3*3
I had these freshly transplanted and basically just hit flower to see how quickly they reacted to get a bit of an idea of what to expect in the big tent. The thought occured to use monster cropping to fill in the canopy swifter and give more veg time for proper root adaptation, but then remembered the 14/14 and quickly programmed a digital timer.
