Good Morfnoevight all you happy humpday stoners!
I think the only thing that the HID lamps might add that you don't or cannot get in large volume is the IR spectrum. This is a blessing in my case where heat is a major problem.
I add royal blue pucks 465nm in veg and far red pucks 700-800nm to initiate flowering and put the girls to sleep, this is the spectrum of my GrowCraft lights:
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Is it as good as the sun - NO. I do grow some very good cannabis with them. Bruce Bugbee IMPO is the authority for light in cannabis. He is saying UV light is of no added value.
I think he means bio-stimulants, I call them bennies. I think in this area Kelp and Humic Acids are a standard in all growing indoors and out.
The best soil rejuvenator recipe I have found comes from Daz But Build a Soil has a lot of great stuff also.
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Someone here was welding an aluminum soda can to a plate with a beautiful bead. Now that is some serious skill level. I did all of my welding with sticks. We never had gas of any kind. I was using an old Lincoln DC welder one time under an old tractor when the sweat on my back laying on the cement made me a better ground than the cable attached to the tractor frame. I will never forget that lesson.
If you are using ladybugs you already have insects shitting and dying and laying eggs all over your plant! Wash them buds!
I love that picture if it already wasn't stolen I would steal it Thank you Aaron James!
@ScottC We have a whole forum dedicated to medical use of cannabis.
@RosaB beat me to it
us west coasters are always lagging behind.