Yeah, and I can go in the garden naked if I want, not that I want to. But I do often garden in my boxers because they’re comfortable. I’m constantly telling the family that boxers and shorts are the same thing just the boxers don’t have a zipper?
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I haven’t been keeping up with this thread. Did we come to any collective consensus? It seems obvious that indoor can look amazingly awesome and outdoor often can’t compete with that. But looks are secondary to me. I don’t think smell and taste are as important as the high either. But outdoor also has more risk. Farming is risky, always has been. We can’t control the weather outdoors, especially during flowering.
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I think you pretty well just summed up the collective consensus - they’re different, and “better” is a subjective term. 
Oh, and a few people stubbornly yelling “my way is still better than your way, damn the details,” while being escorted off stage by security.
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No consensus lol! I don’t think that there ever will be. All we can do is state our opinions and experiences… I agree with you. You can grow some damn pretty bud outside with good genetics. As far as indoor goes I would not worry so much about color of light compared to how many lumens that light puts out and strength of spectrum. Plants will flower in any color of light. When it come’s down to it lots of lumens and a strong spectrum. Jmo.
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Great comparisons article
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something like that with supplemental lighting from leds.
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Like, NASA should get some PAR readings from the moon, man!
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2018/cg_7.html
you talking bout stuff like this?
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I was making a joke and then I learned something new. Thanks. Also I kind of went down a rabbit hole and although, completely unrelated, I read an article that reminded me of a NASA engineer that I did a job for almost 20 something years ago. He showed me the prototype for aerogel which he had in a Petri dish. He tossed it to me and looked like it might have some heft to it but it didn’t weigh anything but what the Petri dish weighed. It was like lifting an empty milk carton in the fridge you are expecting to be full. Lol.
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You reminded me that NASA had grown some hydro chilli peppers on the space station under LED and I was like…If someone knows lighting and growing shit, it’s them NASA scientists.
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pretty sure they’re using general hydroponics line to do it with too…
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You’re absolutely right that outdoor stuff is preferable. This is especially true of landraces. Don’t get me wrong, the indoor hybrids keep getting better. A few times I’ve had to look at the THC percentage again, just to be sure I was reading it correctly, and it would grab you by the belt and kick you in the ass. But, like you were saying, THC content isn’t everything.
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Indoors:
Outdoors:
The pitiful indica in the foreground is the same age, about 8 weeks.
Maybe some of the outdoor stuff doesn’t have quite the same bag appeal but that’s probably strain related, I’ve never managed 1lb from a plant indoors, let alone 2lb and I’d prefer to smoke sungrown strains most of the time, imho terp flavours are better outdoors in dirt, but hey who says it’s one or the other?
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The sun is free, and cannabis evolved under it. Indoor has its place, and sometimes that’s all anyone can do, and the results speak for themselves (30% THC in some cases! Wow!).
I grew up hunting, fishing and growing a garden for subsistence, and there is nothing quite like consuming something that I harvested myself.
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Sungrown in the right place with the right inputs is just as good, but it’s difficult to make it look as good as indoor and sell as good as indoor. I’ll take the good outdoor over indoor mids.
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You do know there’s this guy named bruce bugbee who studies cannabis right? With many talks about light spectrum and light integrals.
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Your soil looks really good!
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Yeah I’m lucky, it’s red volcanic soil so all it needs is a bit of organic matter, it’s pretty acidic at around a ph of 5 so it takes a bit of lime to sweeten it but other than that it’s all I need to do, the problem here is the massive amount of rain!
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