BedroomFarmer
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Shiggityflip - Follow The Yellow Brix Road With The Perfect Sun 1000
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Shiggity,
You need to send me those samples so I can validate your findings for everyone.
You need to send me those samples so I can validate your findings for everyone.
Beautiful plants, Shig! +REPS! 
TheBoogyman
Creme de la Creme Photos: Feb 2017
yeah, that's an amazing yeild. I must do this!
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Yes I think this is the new revolution. Now I wouldn't imagine every strain will give me that kind of return. But then again with BHO the return is variable dependent on strain as well. The huckleberry Kush is possibly my most crystallized strain. I imagine others I have will yield a bit less. But hey we all know that. I need to try and get the thread up!
Hey Shiggity!!! Man, that garden is so clean and exemplifies perfection so well!!! very healthy plants!!! and I love how you have the different lights cascading across the canopy, almost like a sunset! beautiful art you have created!
Hi Shigg's!
It's seems you have a wonderful circus over here and I've always been one for a good show!
I must commend you for everything you've been doing for this magazine. You've become quite the role model for me and in fact out of all the High Brix grows, yours is the one that continues to inspire me to take path toward HB.
You're garden looks beautiful Shigg's.
the amount of time and effort you put into it is so evident. Good for you!
Sorry it's taken me so long to get over here but now that I'm here you have my undivided (medicated) attention!
It's seems you have a wonderful circus over here and I've always been one for a good show!
I must commend you for everything you've been doing for this magazine. You've become quite the role model for me and in fact out of all the High Brix grows, yours is the one that continues to inspire me to take path toward HB.
You're garden looks beautiful Shigg's.
the amount of time and effort you put into it is so evident. Good for you!Sorry it's taken me so long to get over here but now that I'm here you have my undivided (medicated) attention!
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Hi Shigg's!
It's seems you have a wonderful circus over here and I've always been one for a good show!
I must commend you for everything you've been doing for this magazine. You've become quite the role model for me and in fact out of all the High Brix grows, yours is the one that continues to inspire me to take path toward HB.
You're garden looks beautiful Shigg's.
Sorry it's taken me so long to get over here but now that I'm here you have my undivided (medicated) attention!
Damn Pigeons, you are a charmer for sure. Glad to have you here, I was hoping you would come but didnt want to push! And, you are just in time. I got two far red lights coming tomorrow so I caan play with the emerson effect and phytochrome!
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Thanks so much Ice! And I am joining the far red crew tomorrow!
That sounds awesome! I'm not too familiar with my LEDs so I'm going to trust that you'll walk me trough what "far red lights" exactly are.
And please Shigg's a good push every now and again is exactly what I need. Kinda like my dog. When he get distracted I just nudge his shoulder and he's back on track. I'm the same way.
And please Shigg's a good push every now and again is exactly what I need. Kinda like my dog. When he get distracted I just nudge his shoulder and he's back on track. I'm the same way.
TheBoogyman
Creme de la Creme Photos: Feb 2017
Indeed, I think it is too. Why wouldn't it be? Completely safe and it comes out amazing. Wonder if you can use sugar leaves? I'm sure high thc content buds will produce more. I've done it with a hair straightener and not had nearly as good of results as you but I did get an amazing tasting dab, hah. Can't wait for the tutorial bud.
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I plan on pressing some tomorrow morning so you should see the thread go up. Will link it here. May even squish some kief. Don't have a tea bag but you can use a coffee filter. I have some low grade kief to try it with. Just for fun!
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Just wanted to post a couple pics 2 days post cat drench and flip +22 to the left under the blurples are the 4csins. A sea of sativa colas. Under the Ps1000 is pineapple fields "Linda" in front and Bluniverse in back. The PS1000 also covers two of the 4Csins, you can see them in the dark spot. To the right are the twisters and beyond them Shangrila.
Sweet!!! I just got my far reds up the other day, and really excited to use them. Right now I am just running them for 4 hours during "midday" of my veg cycle. But once I flip to flowering I will run a 14/10 schedule, using the Far Red as soon as my main lights go out, and most likely run it for 2 hours
Can't wait to see the far red power )
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I will go 13/11. I feel like 14/10 is pushing too much. I like the idea of the increased flowering phenotypic response.Sweet!!! I just got my far reds up the other day, and really excited to use them. Right now I am just running them for 4 hours during "midday" of my veg cycle. But once I flip to flowering I will run a 14/10 schedule, using the Far Red as soon as my main lights go out, and most likely run it for 2 hours
Can't wait to see the far red power )
CatnipTC
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Can you explain Far Red Led's please
Absolutely beautiful Shiggs. You never fail to amaze.
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Catnip outdoors at night and especially in the fall the light of the sun at night has less and less blue because the angle of the sun. More and more far red light during sunset. Far red light (730nm+) is a special sensory light for plants and converts a plant protein phytochrome. This protein is responsible for the flowering response in short day plants like Cannabis. So at sunset and through the night the plant sees far red light.
Far red converts the phytochrome from Pfr to Pr(flowering response). It makes this change very quickly in the far red light. In complete darkness like in a grow room at lights out it takes about 2 hours to make the change. This is why we need at least 12/12 to flower inside but outdoors plants can flower with 14 hours light and 10 hours darkness. Indoors it is two hours different because we have no far red at lights out. It doesn't have to be a lot of light like we need for growth just enough for the plant to sense it like it would at sunset.
So...if we turn on a 730nm light (far red) after all the other grow lights have shut down we can convert the plant to flowering mode in 15 minutes instead of two hours. What does that mean in the real world? It means that 10-11 hours of darkness should be sufficient for flowering. We can tack on a couple hours to the daylight cycle and do 14/10. It will be perceived by the plant as 14/12! Like gaining two hours light per day!
I currently run an 11.5 hours light/12.5 hours dark. I do this to get the flowering response to be stronger. Not bigger buds, but more trichome and terpene expression. So I plan on changing this to 13 hours light and 45 minutes of far red right after. The plant should see this as 13/13 light/dark. That would mean an extra hour of growth while having even stronger of a flowering phenotype at 13 hours instead of my 12.5 hours darkness I currently use. It's like having 26 hours in a day to play with because we no longer have the 2 hour conversion to flowering we normally have indoors.
Normal red light is about 660 and this converts Pr (flowering) to Pfr (vegetative). This is why light at night can screw up the flowering response. If we go into the grow room and turn a light on in the middle of the dark cycle the plants will not flower. This is the basis of the gas light routine (vegging with 12/12 but adding an hour of light in he middle of the dark cycle).
So...this also answers the question many people ask. What about car lights outdoors or bright moon or stars? Why do we need complete darkness indoors when outdoor plants can handle small amounts of light? Why don't headlights outdoors cause plants to hermie? Far red is the answer. At night outdoors there is far red light. When the car headlight hits the plant it converts phytochrome to non flowering (Pfr). But after the light passes the far red light reconverts the phytochrome to flowering mode. Everything chugs along! Indoors you could go into the room in the middle of the dark cycle and then leave the room and turn off the lights. A burst of far red for a few minutes should reconvert the phytochrome to flowering mode and everything will end up as if you never turned the lights on.
Some people have tried to use this info to allow the plant to photosynthesize at night.they give the plant 24 hours of light but in order to flower they don't use any normal red at night(660nm). They use far red and blues. Now that is a bit extreme for me. If you are interested look up Rauber effect or Mars method. You will see some freaky grow setups. But I do not want to go that far. I just want to gain a little more light in the day while gaining a little more dark!
This is a very informative post! +REPS!
Ditto! I'll stack my reps there too. Excellent post Shiggity.
I love starting my day with an informative lesson. Gosh, for a moment there I thought Icemud had walked in the door. I find I'm never really straight anymore Shiggity. You???
