I'm not sold on the wicking distance, well that it hurts them anyways
It's been my experience that you can still drink from a straw if only the bottom of the straw is still in the liquid, lol. Roots... Yeah, what's the plant-world equivilant of "it's all good as long as I can at least get the tip wet,"
?
I am gunna do a DDA in DWC to see if it gets bigger, think I get around 2oz like
@SweetSue does, so wanna shoot for more
When I read
Tead's post above about how the perlite allows for super fast root development, that this caused the autoflowering plants to begin flowering "early," and that a thicker medium might help, I recalled my own (NON-auto) past DWC experiences and smiled. Then I recalled
@LEDRF talking about some of the autos he has grown in DWC and laughed out loud.
Why? "Water" isn't exactly a
thick medium, lol - and it does allow for truly mad root development. And Neil grows TREES, man
. (That last sentence was spoken in Tommy Chong's voice... in my mind.)
There
has to be more to this thing than what we're "picking up on." I think of DWC as sort of being the (practical) ultimate in "opportunity for unrestricted root growth" - but because of its very nature, roots reach the bottom of the reservoir
quickly.
And yet... (lol)
I got curious the other day and took a look at the daylight hours for Siberia in Summer. Near as makes no difference... 24 hours. And it can actually get pleasant there in Summer, in terms of temperature (although I did see something about people walking around in t-shirts one day and shoveling a foot of snow the very next day, lol).
I was trying to learn about various conditions in Siberia during their growing season, since Cannabis ruderalis probably evolved there (unless I'm mistaken). We kind of tell ourselves, "Autoflowering strains flower automatically, it's based on time/age rather than the number of hours of uninterrupted darkness." Which
seems to be true. However, we can "screw up" and cause the things to flower "early" - and I've read reports that we might also be able to "screw up" and cause them to begin flowering "late," too. Something about too much nitrogen or... I don't remember, exactly. I placed "screw up" (and both "early" and "late") within quotation marks to infer that those terms really apply more to the gardener than the plant, in that it's a goof-up when we do something that causes a plant's life cycle to not fit
our plans.
Anyway, that's why I was looking at the light schedules in Siberia. I've been pretty sick the past... IDK, month? On a good day, I'm not breathing - I'm panting. When I'm ill,
panting is like a goal that I strive for
. So I ended up turning off the computer at that point and worrying about... other things.
But I'm wondering if a thread in the Autoflowering subsection of the forum titled "Factors that MIGHT influence flowering in autoflowering plants" would be... somethingsomethingIDFK. Ruderalis is native to a part of the planet where the light schedule is "different." The Summer weather is
generally mild and pleasant - but could go south on short notice, so to speak. In such conditions, plants that manage to accomplish their seed production ASAP would seem to have an advantage. But that same thing also seems (to me, at least) to be a bit of a handicap in the years where the Summer remains pleasant all the way through. In other words... (Having a
little trouble with my words this evening.) While plants that get their business over with soonest will survive as a species, ones that have evolved some kind of mechanism to allow them to grow larger and flower (possibly flower longer, IDK) during those good years would seem to have
more of an advantage.
Birds have to have some sort of awareness(?) of weather/climate, otherwise extreme abnormal climate events would have punched their collective tickets. Their little brains... Still, they manage to navigate
huge distances. I've even read that quantum mechanics might be involved in that. Plants don't have brains, even tiny little bird brains - they don't
think. Instead, they respond to stimuli and such. Might there be something at play here that causes (or allows) them to have a longer life cycle when environmental conditions allow for it? And if so... Can we somehow take advantage of same in order to manipulate these autoflowering plants?
I might not be making sense, lol.
We’re always here. Glad you got through.
You’re demonstrating in your own way that pH isn’t the concern with hempy it is with soil or coco.
