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Quote Originally Posted by rhizome
All of these experiments have been done by the floriculture industry.

Have a look @ the Umich Ag extension archives- Also Umass, Texas A&M, U Georgia, U Florida.

Putting flower weight on an annual is pretty much putting flower weight on an annual, whatever it may be. Pref nute ratios will vary a little bit ( think commercial floriculture, because fruit formation is a whole differant story), but moisture/media/air ratios over EC are pretty basic. Ain't that differant from the cut flower trade at all.

That being said, it's about all done drip to waste at an EC varied to normalize h20/ion uptake ratios- many small feedings at highest strength possible to maintain proper EC on the waste side of the media, with at least 10% overwatering. Feed nute EC is adjusted ( often realtime) to provide consistant nute uptake regardless of plant transpiration volume, at a rate determined by available light.

In other words, nutrient ion total weight being sucked up the stalk is the same weight for every photon ( in the appropriate spectra) utilized, regardless of the total amount of water transpired.

Lots of small volume applications, EC variable.

Wow- sorry about the tangent- Space Queen makes me, well, spacy...

Oh, and you could probabley get the grant to do the work in a differant annual- Big market for polyhouse shiso in some regions, but it's feed twitchy.
WOW you are always playing the Conspiracy Theory Guy.... Why is that? Earb is a annual but what are you going to weight out w/ studies on other annualls? What similarities are there between begonias, impatiens, snapdragons,calendula, cornflower, foxglove, larkspur, pansy, sweet alyssum, stocks, viola and many many others to Marijunana.... Were they wet annuals or dried out during testing @ TA&M and others you stated...? The feed schedule will have many diffrent variables on the flowers that can not be compaired to by what ever studies there may be out there.. The only annual studies that will show Marijuana tendencys IMO would be Marijuana becuase of the way it is cured out and smoked.....

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