I'm happy I won't be the lonely professor.

Dimebonic333

As for having seperate areas I've been looking into hydrohuts. Here is a link.
I think as for the cutting experiment, deciding on how much of a percent of a leaf is prob the best. Example... if a plant has a leaf that is 6 inches and one that is 3 inches if I take a set 2 inches to keep the data consistant, I am taking more off of one than the other. I was toying with between 40-55% maybe having a couple that I take 20% then couple with 40% and maybe the next would be 60%. Then we have an idea of how much wounding is needed and if there is a point of excess cutting that will deplete the harvest.
Here is a link of the hut. I am going to have to work on the percentage thing when I'm sober. LOL
http://4hydroponics.com/grow_room/homebox.asp

And yeah I thought of the name weedbusters or smokebusters but decided to call this journey Mad Professor. Cuz that is what my boyfriend always called crossing strains. Weedbusters sounds good when you know what the theory is....but some stoners might get scared.


Pepper,
I've spent most of my days since October reading anything I can get my hands on about growing. And there is alot of confusing information since some
people have traditions in their growing that they might be outdated in.
One of the things that led me to this was reading about Dutch Master's strives in foliar feeding and busting alot of myths regarding about uptake of nutes in the root zone and what actually passes through the leaves in foliar feeding. They get challenge people to prove their claims wrong. They participate in independent lab testing by Universities and it really woke me up how many developments have just started in the world of indoor gardening.


Jdog7000 & Lady Vapor
I used to be soooo scared when I first started about cutting leaves. Untill we had a major Rust infection in the garden and I learned how to be firm but fair.
I've been looking into how to use the lower leaves for added support of developing buds and have some pics in my gallery. They are called twisted.
I got to the point of having little palm trees in my first grow from all the trimming we had to do, so this time when I was tucking leaves, I accidently tucked it around the upper branch twice. it has caused the lower buds to grow out then up and as far as I can tell with only being 2 1/2 weeks into flower is that the twisted stems have thickened up the upper branch. This, if it works will help with really heavy plants like Big Bud that usually have to be tied.Sorry i suck at posing pics but here is the link to my gallery
http://gallery.cannabis.com/displayi...bum=887&pos=25
There are 3 or 4 that show the twisting leaf and the branch from furthur away. Sorry I'm kinda broke so that was taken with a cell phone.


knna,

Thank you for your kind words, I really can't wait to get all the equipment. Till then it is theory and brain storming.

I agree with recording as much data as possible. I think that using a scale to measure the weight at regular intervals might also show that one schedule takes more watering or so on and so forth.
I'm thinking of having to do a sativa and seperate indica experiments. I know that both will react to light cycles, light sources, wounding will all be different.
I'm really excited to hear about your LED experiments. This is something I've been following since I read about them at the NASA website. I'm thinking a heat mat for LED only might be needed since they don't give much heat.
But can't wait to hear some of those results.


Well I think I've jabbered enough for now.
Got to decide on a good stain to experiment on that will give me alot of clones and be nice and potent for the patients I donate to.

Hugs and happy toking!