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AngeLus
AngeLusstarted grow question 2 years ago
What growing more grams?
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Plant. Spaces between nodes
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HeavyHittah
HeavyHittahanswered grow question 2 years ago
Better light and more watts.
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GrowCN
GrowCNanswered grow question 2 years ago
I agree that light is critical to an indoor grow. I consider 30 watts per square foot (320 watts/meter2) the minimum but 35 watts per foot (375 watts/meter2) of high quality, modern white grow light is better. Photo period plants do produce more yield in general. They (photo period plants) are no more difficult to grow than auto's. The only difference is at some point you change the light schedule... very simple. Auto's have gotten pretty good, still not equal to photo period, but they are pretty good. The biggest benefit is that you can grow plants that are at different growth stages under the same lights. This is helpful if growing different varieties or plants of different ages at the same time. If you do a grow start to finish before starting the next grow then I would tend toward photo period plants for their higher yield.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 years ago
200-400 watt lighting and start growing photoperiod plants and forget about autos. Autos do not offer anything that can not already be acieved with superior and genetically more stable photoperiod (fem) plants. When growing photoperiod plants, YOU controll when they flower and you can veg the plants as long as it takes to fill your grow space before flipping to flower. Autoflowers flower when they get to a certain age, not a certain size and this is why growing autos can lead to major disappointment, spending 10-16 weeks waiting for one foot plants to do their thing. Indoors, lighting is the biggest issue. Spend everything you can afford on decent lighting and the results will come. Economize on lighting and disappointment will follow. You are basiclly trying to provide an artificial Sun. Cheap or weak lighting is like growing under heavy cloud cover, the plants just don't get enough lumens to grow big buds.
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
Yup, need a better light... Not even sure if the one in that diary could give you 1g/w, for frame of reference, so less than 50g is probably your ceiling. It's a fairly complicated thing, actually. Samsung diodes (lm301 B or H) are the best 'white' LED diodes out there as far as efficacy -- you pay for efficacy as any modern LED should have a very narrow range of potential spectrums (spectral flux density? maybe proper term). With any samsung lm301-based light, simply divided total number of diodes by watts... if near 0.25watts per diode, it's top of the line in efficacy, assuming it also has a decent heat sink and otherwise good build quiality. 0.40-ish and below is good. 0.40-0.50 you get into midrange stuff and expect fewer than 50,000 hours of use and less efficacy. If you are looking for maybe a half pound yield per grow, a 240w LED of midrange quality around 0 will work well and you don't miss out on too much longevity. If you want a higher end light, compare to the FC-3000 by mars. Has great features and high efficacy. At 0, i'd spend the extra here, for sure. Even with the midrange stuff you can push 1-1.33g/watt without sweating too much about the process. You'll go another 10% beyond that with the higher efficacy lights, but it'll also last longer. You will get the full 50,000 hours before it reaches 90% of original intensity. Many lights advertise 50k but if you drive them harder than 0.25w/diode, don't expect to match the diagram at samsun.com related to lifespan curve. it will degrade faster, a mathematical certainty that is very predictable. But, if oyu want a certain sized garden, figure 1g/w from a midrange light, then figure out how many watts you want working backward from the yield you want. This will be conservatively safe. You don't have to do any extraordinary gardening methods to hit 1g/w with an average light... in fact if you count larf, it'll be higher.
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Anonymous_2022
Anonymous_2022answered grow question 2 years ago
Hi there To get more harvest you want to make sure you’ve got a decent light source and good nutrients/feeds 👍 The more you give them the more they will give you back Best of luck 🌱
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