bigdaddyg8
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i use uva with good results @ 3hrs a day for the last 3 weeks.
i use uva with good results @ 3hrs a day for the last 3 weeks.I called the company , it was just a brain fart ( should of looked up their info )
That led it has UV A , filling spectrum gap
Just an update. After doing this, THIS IS NOT a sure fire way to kill mites. It seemed to do some damage, but after closer looks, I noticed some survived. I decided to use some bugs to hunt /eat them from arbico. So maybe there is a method to use uv light for mite control, but I think it is too damaging to the plant. Those bulbs aint no joke! If you keep skin under too long, they will let you know!More good news about uvb. Not only does it stress your plant in the good way, it also is so strong, powdery mildew can't survive, and neither can mites, nymph, aphids, etc...I grow from seed, and never had bugs. But my buddy had a triangle kush cut, and I can't say no to holding such an iconic strain. Well, I've never had bugs before. Heard of mites etc...but never had to deal with them. Well, the kush was thick by the time I noticed, and researched em. Spider mites. Ding! Ding! Found it! It spread to a plant I put in the flower room for seed. So it was in the flower room too! Omg....So by now its been in the flower room for a week!! But I didn't realize my uv lights were already taking care of the problem. I scoped the plant, and there are zero bugs alive!!! Nobody is moving!!! There is a couple videos on YouTube showing spider mites dying from a uv light. It took ten minutes. All dead!! No survivors!!! I put another light in my veg room to take care of those. Will update on how those turn out. I have a feeling there is a mite massacre happening in my veg room!!
Alright farmers, I ran agromax 4 hours a day last season, and I think I gave too much uv for too long. Ran a cbd plant, Harley m.d. and it is not expressing cbd at all! I won't smoke it, because it has an anxiety type sativa high. Like ghost train haze. wish I could send you guys samples of this girl. I think uv can change cannabinoid profiles. Or maybe I have an outlier, but it's pretty crazy this plant is not a cbd plant at all! And half of it is harlequin! Wth?
Just an update. After doing this, THIS IS NOT a sure fire way to kill mites. It seemed to do some damage, but after closer looks, I noticed some survived. I decided to use some bugs to hunt /eat them from arbico. So maybe there is a method to use uv light for mite control, but I think it is too damaging to the plant. Those bulbs aint no joke! If you keep skin under too long, they will let you know!
You went to far if you did plant damage. The goal is to use just enough to where you do not cause Visable plant damage. If one sees damage, back it off in both time, and intensity until the damage goes away. It will help control, and kill most bugs, and PM. Its not a 100% cure as we still get both in the sun right??? So nothing is foolproof.
Now UVC will kill everything in the room. One cant have the plants in there. Or yourself. The solacure goes to 280nm which is the line between UVC/UVB, but they use much lower on the UVC to kill bugs. More like 254nm, and SC is strongest at 285nm-305nm. 254nm will roast em.
I start all seedlings under the Solacure all through flowering. No break in period. This can also burn them up.
From my understanding we dont want to stress them in the beggining and let them adjust.... we want to use it the last 3 weeks ish to stress them and as a stress response they produce more.Sola Cure says to experiment.
Ive spoken with the Solacure guy, and he even says he sees the logic in giving it to them the whole time. Hortilux also makes bulbs targeted for seedling that have UVA/B though not down to 280nm.
My argument is they get uva/b from seedling on the outside. Makes no sense to me not to give it to them from day one is my logic. It stresses the plants from the beginning, though I dont root clones anywhere near them.
No they are stressed and then they adjust and thats easy to see with any indoor plant put outside without hardening off. Some strain will naturally tolerate more UVB etc and that is based on where they originated.Not from my understanding. Theyre stressed from day one in nature.
He also says some use the lights 6-8 hours a day. Youd burn them up on an average of 6-8 hours a day with no break in. Hortilux also saw fit to do research, and then come out with bulbs that target seedlings.
But like I said, they get it in nature. Think the Andes Mountains, at the Equator. They get a tremendous amount of UVA/B all along the equator, and their entire lives.
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