Eggman said:
Am I allowed to respectfully disagree?
Clearly the plant yielded more with the light shining throughout the plants. Unless with each generation of a plant, the yeild gets better. This bud in this picture was 37 grams wet. It left my hands at 27 grams. EAch top bud was similar. Harvests before using the glass tube were never that good. Id' have to say that because the glass is clear, the top got the same light.. 6 inches between plants wont really take much light. The bottom
buds" sucked, but they were good enough to make a lot of hash and cookies.
We'll see next harvest with this bigger room I built. One side I'll use the tube, the other, I wont. Although, this room has lots of room between the plants.
When I grew outside the entire plant grew strong buds. Not just the top. I'll look harder next time and come back with a educated guess.
Hey Eggman, I think you and I are "looking" at two different setups.
From your first post, I thought you meant you were taking the cylinder and putting it length wise from the top to the base of the plant. I see in the pic, that you've put it across the top of the plant, just closer because of the cooled cylinder.
If you're using the clear air cooled cylinder to bring the light closer to the top of the plant, then yes, it will help dramatically.
If you're "shoving the light down the middle" of your plants from top to base, then I've got to reinstate that you are wasting your time for the same reasons that I outlined to you before.
The interior branches of MJ just simply don't grow buds worth a damn. The plants energy should be concentrated on the growing tips to maximize your yield. Let me make myself clear by what I mean when I say Tips. I mean the very tip of each branch. No matter if the branch comes from the base or the top of the plant. Each tip of each branch is where the plants growth hormones are used to it's maximum.
When I refer to the Interior buds, I'm talking about the buds that form lower on each branch below the tips of the branches.
If you keep the tips of the branches all as even as possible within an inch of each other, this hormone that in nature goes only to the tallest tip of the tallest branch, will be used in ALL of the tips. This is where LST really pays off.
Of course, there are many, many factors involved in yield. Light being only one.
Perhaps if you described your use of the cylinders to me again, I will understand what it is you're doing.
Either way, good luck to you. I'm not here to argue with you, I'm only spreading what I've learned the hard way to those who might not fall down the same holes I did. Sometimes, I don't explain what I mean properly. Keep at me until I make it clear to you.
If someone gives you directions you don't understand, the directions become meaningless. I'll try to explain what I mean better to you if you can fill me in on specifically how you place your "Interior" lighting.