Welcome to my Jungle Lava Diary.
Finally, flipping time has come Day 50. I've also set up my UV/IR45. (been reading up some about when is best to use and so on. But still a long way to go before I get the full benefit out of it. Lots more reading and studying to do) man, the difference already is unreal. You'd thin these have been flipped about a wk+. Its been 3 days since pre flower started, really can't believe it. It's crazy how fast the process is. This wouldn't even be up after a week.
She has grown nice and bushy and you really can already see how well the IR has increased leaf growth, its amazing. I've never had fems this bushy and with so much growth and that is a wk ahead already. Think I'm going to have to stretch this girl out. She has so many nodes and inters that are huge. Crazy shit
I'm going to readjust my LST ties and focus hard on spreading her out. I won't be doing much lollipoppoing as the point of the IR is to reach deep down into the lower ends of the plant to produce more flower (bud sites) by stretching your plant allowing more light in and make it easier for the growing process. Your not assured of extra yield due to making her stretch but as you don't have to lollipop you can control her growth and LST where needed.
Info on the UV/IR45
So, I've read up about how to use far red to make my plant go to sleep quicker. (As you need 10 hrs of darkness to sex a plant and it takes 2hrs or so for it to go to sleep, so by using far red 730nm before and after the plants lights comes on you get a 26hr day if that makes sense, how you ask. Cause far red used at the right time can change that time of 2hrs to 5mins to put your plant to sleep. So In turn you get them 2hrs that it should of took to put your girl to sleep, you can now use them 2hrs to keep your females under longer, so you use them 2hrs to give your females extra photosynthesis. It's all got to do with pfr and switching to pr (sleep) quicker, 'Phytochrome'.
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I had to cover up the IR diodes in flowering due to extreme stretching. It may have been Bruce Bugbee (not sure) that said some growers are experimenting with hitting the plants with IR the last 10 minutes of the daily flowering photoperiod as that occurs during each sunset. I am going to source new light bars without the IR diodes. No harm in keeping the UVAs in my opinion.
Congratulations on your beautiful harvest.
It's always a pleasure to read your detailed information about your grows.
Let us know more about the tasting when time comes.
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