"Lapideus" C#8

*puffs*,*exhales* oxygen I've been keeping daytime temps at 85 focusing on photosynthesis, and keeping night temps within a range of 10 at 75. This is generally preferred by the plant of growth as your main concern. Right now the stretch seems to be slowing as the plant switches to full bud site production mode, intensity determines site density, and the plant won't create more bud sites than it can utilize. For this reason, temps will stay at 85 for a little longer as 85 is optimal for photosynthesis, the extra heat creates extra "excitation" of atoms as the chlorophyll net captures light more effectively when hot, thhe more the atoms move around the more photons they catch. Anything over 87 will start to have a negative effect. Breaking down the internal mechanics of the stem we have the "xylem" and the "phloem". The xylem transports and stores water and dissolved minerals (water soluble) upward through the plant, from the roots to the leaves. The phloem carries food downward from the leaves to the roots. The phloem is responsible for transporting sugars, proteins, and other organic molecules in plants. Vascular plants can grow higher than other plants due to the rigidity of xylem cells, which support the plant. The largest channels in the center of the stem have the largest pathways for nutrient uptake I tend to think of them as hydraulic highways. Nitrogen is the nutrient most used by the plant followed by potassium because of this the larger central channels are used for the big two N and K. All the other macro and micronutrients use the smaller outlying channels. The plant uses tiny electromagnetic pulses to catapult the required molecules to where they need to be up and down the stems. Once I discovered that pH is logarithmic it opened my mind to the sheer scale. Room-temperature distilled H2O has a pH of 7 which is neutral. 100-degree centigrade h2o has a pH of 6.2 0.8 doesn't sound much. But it's logarithmic like earthquakes, 6 is 10x the acidity of a 7. Each nutrient has its very own specific positive or negative charge. The tidal system has such an effect on plant nutrient uptake, as magnetic poles shift so does the atomic charge of nutrients, certain nutrients will uptake slightly better and some slightly worse, each molecule is attached to water to be transported across the plant, and every pulse, every nutrient, every process knowing exactly what to do and when. With a standard 18/6 cycle, if you happen to land on a couple of critical nights during flower that highly prioritize K and have a 0.5x uptake on potassium for the entire 6 hours. The idea is something like 6/6/6/6 or 3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3 as a light cycle gives a better more varied cycle of uptake, hitting the sweet spots more often. Like to mess around with the next grow.