Yet Another Heirloom Grow

Post by **Jesús Malverde** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 11:50 am

That doesn't surprise as I assume the available light energy places an upper bound on the rate of photosynthetic processes. The more interesting question to me is, at what point adding more light energy does one reach the point of diminishing returns?

country boy · Post by **country boy** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:55 pm

I was running SOL/Grimm stuff(think sweet tooth and ice princess) on 1k air-cooled hoods over 3x3 trays.
And the weight loss was obvious.
Please note:this happened WAY before the statute of limitations ran out.
It's not a direct corollary to Intrinsic replacing his bulbs, but i think it's $12 well spent.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:51 pm

Jesús Malverde wrote:That doesn't surprise as I assume the available light energy places an upper bound on the rate of photosynthetic processes. The more interesting question to me is, at what point adding more light energy does one reach the point of diminishing returns?

More tangent .. not quite relating to yer question haysus, light flux over time as this is absolute light density, just thought to mention it.

Too much light can lead to oxidative damage to chlorophyll, such as from H2O2 being generated by the photosynthetic machinery itself from the excess light. Plants in general do a variety of things to protect themselves from excess light outdoors.

An Introduction to Plant Biology Weier, Stocking and Barbour.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:19 am

Hit 105F today in the attic. Crazzy weather, jes 3 days ago I my teeth were chattering.
Was goona start harvesting, but when I was gone Sunday my neighbor said there was 2 deputies walking around the neighborhood, didn’t talk to anyone, walk through my property past the green house down to the power lines, no one knows why, no sheriff report filed … and I’m afraid to ask; Wtf were yall doing on place? No I don’t think so. Low profile n all that. Probably nothing, my property is county designated right of way to the power lines. And the dirt road officially ends here. Weird tho, they walk down the road to here, no car, not like the fat lazy cops they are.

I’ll wait a few days.. for now I turned off the lights and just the carbon filter running.

country boy · Post by **country boy** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:58 am

'Through' your property?!
If you are at the 'end of the road', perhaps a 'no trespassing' sign is in order?
FWIW-i don't like 'beware of dog' signs.
Just lets folks know you think you have bad-ass/biting dogs.
A 'watch for dogs' as in 'please don't run over my animals' serves the same purpose but doesn't carry the legal implications.

Also-hasn't it been almost 4 months now?
Those bitches gotta be done

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:31 pm

Ahhh long ago iv’e realized posting yer place is a sure way to call attention to yerself.
Besides it is meaningless to PGE, they have legal access with or without my approval.

And.. I want the county and PGE to free access through my place. Besides the bang up job pge does restoring power every winter. But mostly as registered and approved by the county I and my immediate neighbor here have a place for fire tucks to turn around. Best money we ever spent for fire protection. The fire trucks wont go down a road during a brush fire unless they know there is a way to turn around.

And yeah it has taken way too long this year, I blame the old lamps.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:08 pm

Done

country boy · Post by **country boy** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:58 am

Intrinsic wrote:Ahhh long ago iv’e realized posting yer place is a sure way to call attention to yerself.
Besides it is meaningless to PGE, they have legal access with or without my approval.

And.. I want the county and PGE to free access through my place. Besides the bang up job pge does restoring power every winter. But mostly as registered and approved by the county I and my immediate neighbor here have a place for fire tucks to turn around. Best money we ever spent for fire protection. The fire trucks wont go down a road during a brush fire unless they know there is a way to turn around.

And yeah it has taken way too long this year, I blame the old lamps.

'posting' denotes 'no hunting' around here...'watch for dog' has different connotations than 'beware of dog'.
if you have power company access, there's nothing you can do.
We've had a power line running through our property for decades.
It was the '2 deputies' part that would have freaked me out....

Intrinsic wrote:I blame the old lamps.

What colour are you getting?

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 1:27 pm

FWIW, the sheriffs’ daily log was finally posted, a report of an aggressive loose dog, nothing to do with me. <whew!>

country boy wrote: What colour are you getting?

I alternate the lamps with ~3000k and ~6500k.

Intrinsic · Post by **Intrinsic** » Tue Apr 22, 2014 2:01 pm

Stash

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Each jar has 15 grams with the top tier of litter jars of about ¼ oz a jar.
A total of about 11 ounces. One ounce is from the outside girl.
Good for me, so the yield did not suffer per se form the old lamps, but just took longer to get there.

Even tho I didn’t use the full 448W the whole grow, the gram per watt is:
283g/448W = .6 g/w Not great but ok for fluoro.