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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
Read More »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
Read More »Pounds Per Light – Calculating Grow Room Yield
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
Read More »Sexing Cannabis Plants
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
Read More »Light Cycles and Flowering Cannabis
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
Read More »Grow Light Intensity Principles
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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