ultrasonic
Well-Known Member
I think you missed my point, however anyone can wiki or google those terms. I was just noting that they are generally not for recreational pot growers to understand in proper detail. I consider myself an intelligent person, and i'm more than willing to admit that I don't understand these terms to their proper degree: but that doesn't come from lack of research. Photobiologists who study for 10 or more years in established scientific communities, the ones who develop horticultural bulbs FROM SCRATCH are the ones who really understand.
Try explaining luminous flux or candela to someone new to growing. They're gonna buy the bulb that they're exposed to the most, and that is "the best" in their opinion. It's just how people tend to work. Note a few exceptions.
Those one line explanations, while somewhat informative, just extend what I was saying about mental security. A little bit of "thats what this is and this is what that is" and everyone goes home feeling happy and informed. There is a plethora of information to understand other than what you provided there, but I think your reply was a great example of what I was saying... how people feel secure with a little bit of information.
Sure we know the words, but we often fail to understand their meaning.
Now I didn't want to get off on a tangent there, the purpose of my post was to comment on therootofwis' comment about green light. Conversations regarding lighting in these online grow forums can quickly become akin to the antics of sleepy kinder-gardeners (however I find much less of that here at 420mag). So I generally try not to argue what I'm not properly educated in.
All I simply wanted to say is "we're not educated enough- we DON'T know what's going on for certain" It's not our job
Indoor growing is relatively new, and we're just getting out of the stage of basically using street-lamps to illuminate our grows. The growing community over the last 10 years has become increasingly commercial, and I think it's important that buyers do their absolute best to educate themselves on the facts, while trying to stay away from advertising garbage... Forums like this are a great place for stuff like that. Products build rep or lose it very quickly when they roll against this kind of crop lol. The market is learning that, and they're doing what they can to tip the scales in their favor.I think alot of us would be surprised just where our 200$ bulbs, 500$ digital ballasts, and 300$ nutrient regimes come from. Look at this grow, and how hes using basic salts, and what is essentially the same formula from a hydro company. Hes paying far less for this by mixing his own recipe: by understanding the facts of nutrients, as opposed to just following a manufacturer, the people we've learned to trust. Lumatek digial ballasts are apparently nothing more than a modified stereo amplifier: or at least they apparently come off the same production line... which is why they're completely resin sealed: they want to keep the very basic innards a secret, and make you pay out the arse for as long as they can. Why do you think they've got no problem replacing your 500$ ballast an unlimited amount of times in 3 years? They're still making money. And at the end of the day, whats the difference between a bulb produced in china and a bulb produced in china?
While we all love our new products: the latest and greatest - companies know this. Hell, car companies work with kids to get what THEY want and what THEY think is cool in a minivan. Then when the parents go to buy a van, they tend to trust their kids instinct: kids are supposed to be untainted by advertising! So they pick the van that is appealing to them, which, coniceidently, has all the features that they've studied that kids want, and would find practical. Trust out kids - It's what our generations has been lead to understand... I've even seen it more recently in tv commercials, outright saying "trust your kids... they know what's best" when the fact is the advertisers simply know what the kids want, and provide it.
/end rant!
I am curious about your PM situation! I've considered organics at first to try to control it... Did you end up using the potassium or sodium, if at all? Any shots of the PM?
I didn't have time to get them with the lights off so we have the wonderful sodium glow for this week. 
3ish. Whoops, oh well girls haven't seemed to mind, but I guess I have been phosphors boost big time! Now the question is has it helped yields or have I just been throughing away my money? I think that I have been wasting my money but we will see. Just getting the purple kush reservoirs ready and found that mistake. For my new formula see my purple kush grow.
