It’s gonna be a wall bros, but here i don’t mind much to make it a pain to read on a smartphone ^^
I’m the Don Quijote of the fans ^^ It’s not true but more seriously, let’s show my colors on this first.
Herms + fans = doomsday. So the zero-fan is a true constraint for me, i literally hunt first all latent herms i can at each round until the line is enough healed to handle my selections. If you look at my weird tent and the work i’ve done on static pressure and airflow, you have to remember this first.
I’m forced to be synthetic to give you a logical lead, we can enter in details afterward if you want. It’s quite wicked but we can make an analogy between the transpiration of the plants and the transpiration of humans.
It’s just that plants are really breathing with the surface of transpiration, not us. Plants don’t need to burn the shit ton of fuel we are burning, as mammals. Even fishes are dragsters in petrol compared to plants. Moving cost a lot of energy, then require specialized organs to treat the same air at high rate of effiscience.
What is cooling the leaves is their transpiration. And if you increase drastically the levels of co² during the photosynthesis, plants can handle extreme temps like champs. It’s no longer popular now, but back in the day you was able to see hermetic spaces with almost zero airflow and multiple 1Kw HPS blasting. With average temps constantly over 35°c/95°F and more of the time running on the 40°c/104°F range.
And it was not the sugar canes with not enough weed to roll a blunt on it that you see often now in new age growlogs. But fat ass plants with main colas as fat than your arm or even your leg.
I’m talking about these extremes specifically to give you a range of consideration, not to find a reason to remove all your fans.
Airflow is very important, and it’s the sum of all my efforts with the modded tent : letting dance my leaves passively but with a strictly controlled flow : each cm² of the tent is pumped by the central parabolic reflector (that act like a funnel for the airflow), in a straight line. I’ve literally suppressed all turbulences with aerodynamics tests used in the automotive industry. I hate all types of herms at this point.
Now let’s imagine a plant growing in a bad airflow full of looping back poach of vapor, full of turbulences and with an unmastered negative pressure that draw a direct and straight line between the intake point (passive of active intake) and between the outtake point (carbon filter). With high temps, to complete the catastrophic picture.
They already transpirate more than they breath (it affect stomates, then the photosynthesis effiscience indirectly), so if you add a couple of fans in top of this, you are generating in this caricatural situation even more turbulences and vicied air poachs loops, pushing the plants to transpirate even more.
Trust the humans the most exposed to extreme heat and that use transpiration as AC.
They even drink fucking hot tea to … chill themselves.
My house is build this way, with geothermic thermodynamics, cold chambers insulation (literally) and inertia heaters for the winter. With the little help of a subterranean phreatic layer, people think i’ve an AC dialed full throttle when they enter in the house when it’s 40°c/100°F+ outside. At the front door. My thermostat is the earth, keeping me away from extreme temps both sides. I even choose my houses only after a water analysis, it’s not a joke. Yes it’s helpful for breeding (PH free grow), but i’m washing me and i drink/cook with this water too ^^
And i’ve build and modded my tent totally for the house i’m living in, to the whole static pressure pumped by the grow space (that i call the “lab”).
A successful environment that improve the stability of your crop mechanically decrease organically and proportionally your energy consumption. Even if you love lethal levels of lights for your seedlings ^^
Another important datas : what’s around the house. My enemy here is fungic attacks coming from vineyards, i’m surrounded. Then their inherent fucking fungus gnats of the hell, mutated by decades of moronic strategies by the local agronomy.
If the house is in arid zone (lucky you if it’s the case, it kill almost everything we hate with cannabis), hot or cold, humid zone with swamps and fuck tons of insects etc …
Believe your own weather and act accordingly.
But in any case, a direct flow to the plants : NO. You can’t believe how much it improve the quality of the weed in top of this, one will restitude the chemotype with accuracy, the other will just tastes the nutrients you give even if you rinse the hell your plants. It’s due to the increased flow of sap and transpiration, even if you’re using supersoil with full organic amendments.
Don’t tell it to hipsters, the pleasure to see their faces melting in smoking my “chemical weed” is a grand moment.
The best tool i’ve ever used with active intake in my old spanish lab (very hot summer) was the most cheap and simple you can imagine : airsocks.
In this photo they are used to counteract the movement of convection, but small diameters ones are available to grow weed in more small spaces and you can place it at floor level. Like a snake of filtered fresh air encircling your plants.
Buy always by twos. Depend on the aridity of your sector, you have to unmount it on regular basis and machine-wash it. 5 minutes top, it’s just a sock. Cannabis love it as fuck (indirect diffused air heavenly repartited), and it offer various protections i don’t need to mention.
On the fem production units, i was using it with a lung chamber with AC inside. You can’t produce high grade fems if you don’t master the temps and the airflow of your space, that have to be rockstable at given levels.
Don’t ask me these datas, you need the chemist that builded the STS cocktail solution used to know it. It’s not the “i can do cheaper with photography stuff” like americans are just discovering now on the late. But bottles worth 4 digits used on large scales, enriched with a fuck ton compounds to reverse even Chuck Norris without any “lag” in the production chain.
Fuck, i hope the situation is streamlined by the up. Or will soon enough. Courage buddy, what don’t kill us make use stronger and better. Let’s say Jah have a plan, your job is to be enough attentive to see it.
At one point i thinked about moving to CA too, around SD. But i changed my mind. I’m used to do my stuff in Europe, where breeding is just as fucking hot everywhere … so i pay less attention to legal considerations. A strong move at federal level is happening too, actually the FDA is harassing the DEA to reschedule. Who was able to imagine this 20 years ago ? ^^
Moving across the pond still in my plans. I just need to hurry up before the genetic cycle come back in Netherland again ^^ I’ve personal reason for it, but working with americans to consolidate their fantastic evolution is a very sexy plan for my last part of life lol Before Dutchs stole the dynamic again.
Again, put on paper everything you can about your house. It permitted me to sometimes to grow in hell during transitive moves (a pro-active breeder here can’t stay more than 2 years at the same place, and it mean country often).
I must say that the NL5H is quite respected in your lands, but yeah the saturation of the market, the panic in term of genetics, the rush for the green money … better safe than sorry.
The prototypes of Shoes i’m growing actually are a bit badly pressurized but are just growing like the NL#5 cut for now. Next round, you will see the real deal too (Sensi NL5H), aside the Jack Herer (a NL5H base too).
Just keep in mind that the lines are wounded, and need cleaning/screening.
It slowered the little farm, the fucking siberian wave was hardcore here. But we passed the hell without decreasing the exhaust rate (risk of fungi here). I’ve finally let the house deal with it for me, i don’t changed anything and included it in the actual screening. But yeah, it was stressful at the coldest point. I’m forced to split with a register the air intake at 50%house/50%outdoor to don’t make crazy the heaters of my house and the bills. I reached at one point a top low of 13°c/55°F. So i increased a bit the N and have grown “dry”.
Now, i knew it and see it coming weeks before the wave was here. I’m even watching solar activity weekly ^^
My choice to force seedlings at this moment in limited volume of soil wasn’t entirely about breeding. Just opportunism, i aligned the planets myself if you want. Big volume of soil suffer a lot more about the cold than restricted ones. But a simple heating mat of greenhouse is enough to permit to your plants to grow on cold, if any. Better than any air heater and it make the roots crazy in bonus ^^
I’m actually singing to have ~50 specimens per 4x4 flow. I let you imagine with a 10x10 the hell i will not resist one second to set. I’m forced to unmount my spaces to limit the number specimens i’m growing, it’s just stronger than me. The Big Bud rounds just make me very uncomfortable, each time i opened the zip i insulted myself to have so much empty space.
But this way i discovered the importance of the focus on the accuracy of observations, and to best manage my time per plant.
Anyway i’m very not a reliable guy to keep the things rational about it ^^ Be ready for the JH of my cat, it’s coming this year for the private club ^^.
Nah and i’ve even a scientific reason lol For real.
In my effort to know my printfoot in breeding, i’ve set a complicated procedure of tests … 19 years ago ^^
Smoking my favorite bulldozer weeds like a train, stopping suddenly, blood analysis specialized in THC dosage, and again … during a whole year to be sure that it wasn’t related to lipid high/low with winter etc … no, it’s not a joke ^^ Breed the breeder lol It explained also a lot of things of my past about my various drug abuses and my inefficiency to be physically hooked by anything. I’ve an enzymatic activity of the hell, my recent blood sample are like the blood of a young teenager. I’m even a bit fat actually and don’t have any cholesterol or insulin funk. But i’m glad, they have finally accepted it fucking hell. My arms will look like the ones of a junkie of they continue to pump my juice to believe it.
Anyway i try, edible or not, my body is unable to stay positive at blood test more than two weeks. With or without intensive sport activity. I’m a fucking THC black hole, and i think that it’s why i select only females able to saturate fast the receptors. And why i’m bad at terp breeding outside very strict methodologies, either.
This digression was worth the ride ^^
Kind of ^^ LED are for pussies lmao
Nuclear weed baby !
Joke aside, and beyond the 3µmols sweet spot, brightness don’t mean you have the fusion core that is the sun in your tent. When you chill on a beach, the sun literally pierce you like a paper sheet without any exponential decrease. None artificial lights is able to do it but high output lasers able to cut titanium and stones.
Another bitchy consideration for you : LED are working exactly like my actual love for neons. At the difference that my neons produce a radiant light and that electronics are doomed to be directional. It’s why i’ve not switched yet, i’ve learned breeding with neons and HPS. All my marks are built under these lights. If i change the type of light too radically for LED panels, i’ve to re-map everything i know.
I’m also already involved in the Oregon sun grown genetics, and it’s not something i can think about here under LED breeding pressure and zero opportunity to do this :
(literally, my way for outdoor breeding)
Don’t get mad at me for this, understand the expression of the phenotype instead. Be darwinists and mendelian, it give peace in life.
I’m actually helping a padawan to set a full LED lab that kick ass, for the sole purpose of breeding. And not to hit & run, i take also the responsibility to learn him how to map his plants under these conditions : almost 2Kw LED in a 5x10, to give an idea. Pollen space ? 100w panel ^^ Unleash these fucking lights, cannabis is a photosynthesis beast and not the damned living room poodle hermy-ing because you gave them a bad look.
It wasn’t an analogy but the description of what do electroculture on cannabis specifically ^^
This is the three examples i always failed. But that i saw working with my own eye, at a point for one case to have saw the snow and the ice dodging the parcel. Pests too. Potatoes not freezing and fucking growing out-of-season inside negative temps greenhouse, Roses and tulips flowering surrounded by snow (helped with chems) … it’s something to experienced. You pass your time to check if the soil is not freshly moved to lure you with fresh plants. I think that to be an elite grower is required, and as i stated already it’s not my case at all.
But i succeeded at it, indoor and under HPS at negative temps (-5°c/23°F). I just used a variation later, in using a NFT build with sewage tube and plastic soda bottle inside for the pots. The only picture i have saved from an hard drive :
It’s a Haze#1 (sensi,not a release) x pure ghanaian F12-F15 (don’t remember exactly). Vegged and flowered at negative temps. The bottom of the pot is filled with rockwool, the other half with polarized soil (K+ enrichment). On the NFT, i was surprised that transforming it in electrolyse just fixed the PH for good at the level it was when electrified. No swing, at all.
Nothing for now, but the seeds increased a lot their size in the sprouter. Weird. I give them an additional week before the dissection. I will take macros of this, i promise.
Keep the vibes high, and forgive my digressions ^^ Robocop is coming, it’s calming to write walls lol
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Looks like the COB will be 100+ again. Two parallel lines on the go that’s quite good.
That was interesting rescue to watch, let see if the remaining ones make it.
