ok, i love this, and it brings up lots of great reading materials and even more questions...
would a sunset or sunrise do anything beneficial? (sunset/rise would be some gradual turning on/off with varying amounts of different wavelengths)
flipping a switch to on has to be some shock for the plants; but might it also key some hormonal action we dont know much about? or make things better/worse? or not affect (i hate that word, i may not be using it properly at all!) time/growth/yield at all.
i mention this for two reasons, first, a lot of what i read has numerical values that can be used in creating the best fake "day" i can give them (if i had control of the wavelengths). second, the aquarium - i know it makes a difference there. so i am making a leap and guessing it might matter in/with cannabis.
having said that... would it be worth considering a more controllable spectrum? (like the aquarium light)
im thinking i can design and produce (no shit, i are an engineer irl) a controllable LED - somewhat like the Fluval 3.0, but with the cannabis' parameters. as a matter of fact my plan is to use that as a jumping off point. but would it be worth it?
i can run some tests with the Fluval, but it is only 59w - although i have 2. (but that leaves one aquarium with a crap light, the other is a
Current USA, so not too bad.)
in the aquarium there is a big difference in what grows great using different sunrises and sunsets.
i think it might be fun... urm, i mean useful to look into this. but would it be worth designing and producing a working model (not so hard, just throw money at it, some way to tear down the fluval and combine with whatever, but all still controllable by color!)? would i be able to do enough with 59w x 2 to see if it makes cents (dollars and...) to keep going and maybe make a 5 "bar" light and design a sink...
anyway, just thinking while i still can.