hazey grapes
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first, stop burning your bud. vaporized weed tastes better, doesn't put C02 and carbon in your lungs (i bet you can hold hits longer because of that) and gives you a cleaner high with less couchlock. if you get an efficient design like purple days or a clone, your weed will last longer too. win win win win. if you've never vaporized yet, you should try it. the gear isn't cheap though.
another way to improve your quality is to switch to fuller spectrum halides or at the very least mix them in. sodiums are all about flowering and yield. just like indicas have done for far too long, it lowers the quality of your bud. you need full spectrum light for full terpene (flavor) expression. that's why troll bastards couldn't understand the grape flavors i got out of LSD, C99 and especially super cali haze under my blue white 400w halide. SCH X C99 was "generic fruity" tasting under my 400w sodium which surprised me. i figured the light had to be the difference and after some research and recent posts here, yep, sodium sucks! it's more cash crapper schwag producing.
the red orange colors, and higher output too i bet, produce more infrared which degrades THC while all that blue in halide is not only closer to the UV that's good for THC that sodium ain't even close to, but touches ALL of the "spectrum notches" needed for healthy plants. halides put red out, just not a lot of it. they're closer to sunlight. that's why dr atomic has his "metal haze" and even DJ shorts has weighed in on the topic along with a couple other articles i looked up googling terpenes and spectrum. cervantes was right all the way back around 1987 at the latest with his early edition of indoor marijuana horticulture with the cheap cartoony looking cover and even cheaper crude illustrations but more info than his top 2 book competitors combined. i've never trusted sodiums, and mine is turning into a spare. i'm running 2x blue from now on. i want to taste that delicious grape flavor again.
environment makes a difference. organic mixes with a lot of variety have to help flavor too. everything i've read says so and some of the best tasting weed i've ever tried was a coworker's homegrown that he made his own high quality compost for with food scraps. it tasted like salad in leaf form. it was OK and dirt cheap, but very tasty. i know i got a nasty metallic twang eventually using a crystal fert in my organics at first and that's what you need for full chemdog flavor. i've gotten nice enough flavors out of basic organics, and especially under my halide.
these 3 attentions to detail should improve any strain you're growing. i'm not going to waste my time doing a 50:50 halide/sodium test grow. i don't care about yield, just top quality. if DJ shorts says it's true... STFU and listen. i wish i had his original thais.
another way to improve your quality is to switch to fuller spectrum halides or at the very least mix them in. sodiums are all about flowering and yield. just like indicas have done for far too long, it lowers the quality of your bud. you need full spectrum light for full terpene (flavor) expression. that's why troll bastards couldn't understand the grape flavors i got out of LSD, C99 and especially super cali haze under my blue white 400w halide. SCH X C99 was "generic fruity" tasting under my 400w sodium which surprised me. i figured the light had to be the difference and after some research and recent posts here, yep, sodium sucks! it's more cash crapper schwag producing.
the red orange colors, and higher output too i bet, produce more infrared which degrades THC while all that blue in halide is not only closer to the UV that's good for THC that sodium ain't even close to, but touches ALL of the "spectrum notches" needed for healthy plants. halides put red out, just not a lot of it. they're closer to sunlight. that's why dr atomic has his "metal haze" and even DJ shorts has weighed in on the topic along with a couple other articles i looked up googling terpenes and spectrum. cervantes was right all the way back around 1987 at the latest with his early edition of indoor marijuana horticulture with the cheap cartoony looking cover and even cheaper crude illustrations but more info than his top 2 book competitors combined. i've never trusted sodiums, and mine is turning into a spare. i'm running 2x blue from now on. i want to taste that delicious grape flavor again.
environment makes a difference. organic mixes with a lot of variety have to help flavor too. everything i've read says so and some of the best tasting weed i've ever tried was a coworker's homegrown that he made his own high quality compost for with food scraps. it tasted like salad in leaf form. it was OK and dirt cheap, but very tasty. i know i got a nasty metallic twang eventually using a crystal fert in my organics at first and that's what you need for full chemdog flavor. i've gotten nice enough flavors out of basic organics, and especially under my halide.
these 3 attentions to detail should improve any strain you're growing. i'm not going to waste my time doing a 50:50 halide/sodium test grow. i don't care about yield, just top quality. if DJ shorts says it's true... STFU and listen. i wish i had his original thais.
