Quote Originally Posted by oldmac
Hey kanna,

Glad to see you, and still following the various lighting threads here. Your input is always intelligent and insightfull.

Hello clongo,

I appreciate your input, but I don't think that blue light explains the difference's here. BTW, you are not the first to mention the blue light effect.

As knna pointed out, the reason I used regular 23w CFLs at the start in 2 chambers was to off set the fact that the UVb bulb used was a CFL of 20w and would put out blue. I was also trying to keep the amount of total light energy the plants recieved equal. But during veg, the one chamber with UVb the bulb was bare, while the other chambers had the CFLs inside the boroscilicate glass tubes to insure no UVb, but they would see the blue. And again when the one chamber used for UVb flowering, that UVb bulb was bare what this means to me is that the spectrum all the way down from UV was available to phytochromes and cryptochromes while also increasing the plants metabolic rate with higher energy photons which accelerate the perceived daytime and circadian rhythm which are blue light responses while the control chamber had it's CFL still in the glass The glass worries me for the same reason the bare UV worried me, I'm sure it filtered more energetic violetblue or even UVC light. All three chambers saw about equal levels of blue light. My only conclusion was the effect's seen were due to UVb and not blue.

While on the subject of blue light, you mentioned it's time factor. Could you explain what time factor is about or steer me to some source dealing in various light wavelenghts and thier time factors? Pad manual itself or Dogznova could explain it all much better than me. if you havent seen it and want to, youll have to make a myspace and befriend temporal photonics It could maybe help me to better understand the PAD Manual and the Rauber theory.

BTW as to amber trichomes, I agree that some people don't like the couch lock effect but in alot of cases with providing medicine to sick/dying people it helps with thier sleep. It's also why I have been growing the heck out of a plant I call "apricot" I used in this experiment; this plant will just not produce many trichomes let alone amber ones. It will stimulate appetite, ease pain and help with nausea but no matter how much is vaped/smoked it is a very mild high. Seems to work great for patients who are undergoing cancer treatments but are not looking to get high.

Respect, I personally use it because I got hit by a car and I find sativas are actually better pain relievers, but it left me with spasticity and I leave buds unchopped longer for that and sleeping.

OM
jah bless

longo