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03-10-2006, 03:09 AM #5OPSenior Member
LIGHTING QUESTIONS
By "forcing" flowers, do you mean flower production at a time that would otherwise be considered premature, or do you mean that the normal flower production in the normal fruiting cycle is enhanced?
I wouldn't be using the red during the veg phase, just during the fruiting phase.
I've been budding plants fine for years with the standard MH. I can kick them into fruiting pretty predictably with the proper increase in the dark cycle. So if red is only bringing on the bud I'm perhaps looking at the wrong solution. Or maybe I don't understand . . .
My problem is lack of "finishing" for some of the strains I've tried, and one current clone in particular. Some simply won't get frosty at all. THC production way below what I'd consider average. Everything else about the plants are encouraging -- good root systems, nodal distances, growth rate during veg phase, etc. They are also tasty smoke, and lots of it. They're just mediocre with the THC.
What I'm looking for is resins that go milky or brown -- these never do -- more glands, and perhaps a bit less leafy and more flowery overall yield, too. "Closure", if you will. I can usually tell when a bud is "done". These I can't. Even at 18 hours dark they won't finish . . . will red help that?
The mother plant was given to me by someone who gets his stuff from catalogs. This is "spirit" something or other. So I have reason to believe it could be good stuff if I grow it right.
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