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What I would like to do is to be able to run two side-by-side grows, with ten plants or so (to help account for any variations, since we can't exactly just grab identical clones from a mother plant) of the same strain in each grow room. The goal would be to provide the same amount of gross light per day to both sets of plants - but by giving one set, IDK, 16 or 20 hours of light, and the other side the same amount, only in 12 hours per day of lighting.
The only problem with such an experiment is that there is, after all, an upper limit to the amount of light-energy that a cannabis plant can process at any one time. Which I suppose means that I'd have to use that for the 12 hour/day side and then reduce it by the inverse of the greater amount of hours that the other side received. IOW, I wouldn't be able to "max out" the side that was receiving more hours' worth of light per day, because the plants on the other side wouldn't be able to process a greater amount of light. Err... If that makes sense.
Unfortunately, I have neither the money nor the space to perform such an experiment. And I might be just a wee bit lazy
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I would love to see someone else do it, though.
EDIT: BtW, my auto-flowering experience, if written about in longhand, would fit onto the head of a pin. I tried some years back, but they weren't very good (or tasty, either). I did grow a couple in the corner of my (crowded) grow room that has been stuck on vegetative lighting for months too long, and got a rather small amount from each. I gave all of that harvest away except for two bowls of one plant, which were okay, I guess. The person that I gave it to hasn't complained (and said thank you, of course), but he hasn't exactly begged me to give him any more, so... IDK? I do have a few auto-flowering seeds left, and will probably try to germinate and grow at least one of them the next time I start fresh from day one (with new plants in the vegetative phase). I thought about trying to grow one by itself, which would give me the option of starting it, well, NOW (lol), but I'd only be able to light it with some CFLs or 4' fluorescent tubes. "Some" meaning 256 or less watts, and probably significantly less, because the total electrical capacity here is very, very low. IOW, I could probably grow it in a Dixie cup, lol, and not harvest any less than I would otherwise. And that would feel to much like wasting one of my limited number of seeds. But, still, it's tempting. I'm pretty sure that it's too late in the year to attempt to grow one outside at my location. Especially in the woods. I could, in theory, grow it in a five-gallon bucket and either carry it inside when the weather turns cool or rig up a redneck greenhouse, but we try to be kind of clandestine around here. I wish that I had thought to do so a month (or two) ago, but like they say, if wishes were "fishes," lol.
The only problem with such an experiment is that there is, after all, an upper limit to the amount of light-energy that a cannabis plant can process at any one time. Which I suppose means that I'd have to use that for the 12 hour/day side and then reduce it by the inverse of the greater amount of hours that the other side received. IOW, I wouldn't be able to "max out" the side that was receiving more hours' worth of light per day, because the plants on the other side wouldn't be able to process a greater amount of light. Err... If that makes sense.
Unfortunately, I have neither the money nor the space to perform such an experiment. And I might be just a wee bit lazy
.I would love to see someone else do it, though.
EDIT: BtW, my auto-flowering experience, if written about in longhand, would fit onto the head of a pin. I tried some years back, but they weren't very good (or tasty, either). I did grow a couple in the corner of my (crowded) grow room that has been stuck on vegetative lighting for months too long, and got a rather small amount from each. I gave all of that harvest away except for two bowls of one plant, which were okay, I guess. The person that I gave it to hasn't complained (and said thank you, of course), but he hasn't exactly begged me to give him any more, so... IDK? I do have a few auto-flowering seeds left, and will probably try to germinate and grow at least one of them the next time I start fresh from day one (with new plants in the vegetative phase). I thought about trying to grow one by itself, which would give me the option of starting it, well, NOW (lol), but I'd only be able to light it with some CFLs or 4' fluorescent tubes. "Some" meaning 256 or less watts, and probably significantly less, because the total electrical capacity here is very, very low. IOW, I could probably grow it in a Dixie cup, lol, and not harvest any less than I would otherwise. And that would feel to much like wasting one of my limited number of seeds. But, still, it's tempting. I'm pretty sure that it's too late in the year to attempt to grow one outside at my location. Especially in the woods. I could, in theory, grow it in a five-gallon bucket and either carry it inside when the weather turns cool or rig up a redneck greenhouse, but we try to be kind of clandestine around here. I wish that I had thought to do so a month (or two) ago, but like they say, if wishes were "fishes," lol.
when I got banned, but when I got around to contacting someone about that through channels it was, well... at first I wondered if ol' smellyarse had gone nuts and banned everyone 
. But even he wasn't there, lol. It was like an old hacker's home - after everyone had finished getting old. That's about the only non-cannabis forum I visit any more (and the only cannabis-related one I'm a member of is this one, of course)... Kind of chilled - and calmed down a little 
