Hey Dog,

I have a feeling that my back to back experiment is going to probably lead to another dealing with this first aspect. I've started to think tric production is really a function of genes more then what light is used.

About 10 months ago I got some cuttings from someone who was using a mmj plant that seem to have a lot of the properties desired for cancer patients; good nausea control, stimulate appetite, and had good pain control properties, all without the heavy couch lock effect. He would not tell me what strain or crosses were used but because a patient I had seen moved to his area and was now using it I was interested. We nicknamed it "apricot" cause this fellow was into alternative medicine and was promoting the use of apricot seeds as part of his treatments. When I got the cuttings he told me that the tric production was low, hence THC was less then stuff I had been using, not to be concerned. All I thought was, let me grow this and we will see about that. Well even with UVb both as a supplement to HPS growing or when using the TI pro-blooms this stuff will not put trichomes onto the leaves they only form on the bud. This has been the first plant I've ever grown where the leaf trimmings were so deviod of trics we throw them out. Could not get any kief out of the trim, made me start to rethink, does UVb really add to tric production.

First we'll see what happens with this first experiment, then I'll see what needs to be compared next.