Quote Originally Posted by paulinator
Hey, a good setup costs money and i dont have any. Wait until I can design my own. In any case, I know how to get a good estimation on the PAR watts of any type of light. Find someone else that can do that please. There is calculus involved..... What does that mean? I can match the sun's readiation potential and COLOR. I can determine the right amount of different colored lights to match the 5500K temperature of sunlight. See the 5500K MH bulbs dont have the spectral distribution of the sun. If you mix say another 6000K bulb with it, it boosts the blue light but by how much and what else does it boost and by how much. I CAN DO THAT BUDDY. So leave me alone. I'm poor at the moment.

Hmm... I've never heard of the sun's "readiation??" Tell me more, buddy! Haha, sorry I had to....

Congrats on whatever degree you have, but calculus and biology (of plants) are two completely different things. Sure you may be able to get the maximum from a light set-up using your calculus knowledge, but I'm sure there are people who are biology geniuses and know marijuana's structure, what to do to it, what not to do to it, what to feed and when to feed it. Im sure there a people so skilled in plant biology that growing marijuana for them is easier than easy. Some people can make marijuana dance to any tune they're singing!! (Jdog, Zandor, LIP, dutchy to name a few...) Some people don't even need degrees to do that! Some people just have enough hands on experience that they have gained way more knowledge than they could have gotten reading books on the subject (although a double dose of hands on experience and literature on the subject would be super as well!)

Im DEFINITELY not (only on my 1st "real" grow) one of those people, and I'm going to take a leap here and say you aren't either. Degrees aren't the only way of obtaining knowledge, and a degree does not make you better than anyone.

All that light stuff youre doing with calculus doesn't really help anyway. Why not exceed the sun's potential? (Now you COULD use your calculus knowledge to EXCEED the sun's potential and not just match it...THAT would be useful!) I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure if you bought the right lights and had the right set up indoors, you can get better results from the sun. So why match it? Im glad you can figure out how to do it, it's nice seeing some more mathematical minded people on the boards (Im going to be a high school geometry and calculus teacher) but I don't think it's necessary to "brag" about it.

I will admit, SpiritLevel took a cheap little shot, but a simple "shove it up your arse" would have done the trick instead of bragging about your calculus skills :thumbsup:

PS: I know you're poor right now lol