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Choosing Between Magnetic and Digital Ballasts

Choosing Between Magnetic and Digital Ballasts

Brandon February 26, 2018 Comments Off on Choosing Between Magnetic and Digital Ballasts

We all want to maximize the potential of our grow rooms and a big piece of the equation is your grow lights. Choosing between magnetic or digital ballasts to run your lights is a

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Grow Room Light Cycle Interruptions

Grow Room Light Cycle Interruptions

Brandon May 30, 2017 Comments Off on Grow Room Light Cycle Interruptions

Grow Room Light Cycle Interruptions Indoor growers use light cycle manipulation to trigger cannabis plants to flower or stay in a state of vegetative growth. This is basic indoor growing 101 but growing cannabis

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Pounds Per Light – Calculating Grow Room Yield

Pounds Per Light – Calculating Grow Room Yield

Brandon December 6, 2016 2

Q: How do you calculate how much weed a grow room will yield, based on the amount of electricity used? A: In truth, there are too many variables to accurately count your chickens before

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Sexing Cannabis Plants

Sexing Cannabis Plants

Brandon August 23, 2012 61

A few months ago we published an article about Light Cycles and Flowering Cannabis that generated a lot of questions regarding how to sex cannabis plants. For those of us who have been growing

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Light Cycles and Flowering Cannabis

Light Cycles and Flowering Cannabis

Brandon January 7, 2012 255

In nature, cannabis plants (excluding ruderalis) begin to flower in the late Summer and early Fall. When the days start to become shorter and the nights longer, flowering signals are triggered by photoperiodism, beginning

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Grow Light Intensity Principles

Grow Light Intensity Principles

Brandon December 28, 2011 17

Understanding light is the single greatest factor to perfecting the art of growing marijuana indoors. Light is the fuel that drives the process of photosynthesis, so an understanding of these concepts is imperative to

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