I thank you for the lead on Koray Optoelectronics (and i take it like it should be). Since µmol rates become more vulgarized in marketing with LED panels, i’m searching everything in relation (in the vein of the compensation point, specifically).
Thanks for your qualitative demonstration too, well appreciated.
Beside that, I’ve made the effort to extract from the hell the “making of” of plants only defoliated to be “photogenic”. Yes, i insist on the psychological biases of catalogs and the big impact it have. A lot.
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In this case, and specifically for this plant … It was impossible to count on the defoliation to make it “bankable”, the natural shape and density of the buds are absolutely not compatible. The defoliation is just in this case a standard of presentation. The only way to do it was to apply a strategy to something that really matter to “increase volume” : the roots.
The other case involve a plant on which the trigger to make it “bankable” is totally different (but one more time, the roots are more involved than any type of defoliating strategy. She just have a very high level of tolerance on nutes, to the point to can’t be smoked at all at its maximum rate.
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I can understand the habits of everyone (with a context) when it belong to technics, RH strategies even preferences (trimming, hash production, dust in final product whatever…).
But when it’s presented like a drastic factor for yield, the only thing that come in my mind is the psychological bias. This plant is incredible, but to build a “naked plant” is absolutely not the way to produce monsters for catalogs. Catalogs that are never showing the strict reality of a qualitative weed in the vast majority of the cases. Most of the work to do for volume is on the roots density, ions exchanges and assimilation, it’s the real leverage. And like all “old farts” it’s very hard for me to ear everything else ^^
But i respect, and i can’t wait to discover new advanced technics to test that are not “too pushy extrapolations” of minor factors.