Caution: calling into question my knowledge about plants will result in tl;dr posts.
First off, I actually have taken a couple classes in horticulture and a couple classes in botany ata fairly well acclaimed school for the subjects. Secondly, if you read my post, you would have read that I use, and highly recommend using, supplemental lighting. Since you apparently do not understand what supplemental means, it means I use lighting in addition to my big daddy HPS to create a natural spectrum of light. Since you are linking to all these articles about natural light, I would expect you to realize that while the early season light is heavy in blues and yellows, the autumnal (or harvest) sun takes on more red and orange tones. The reason equatorial sativas may perform 'better' (subjectively) under Metal Halides is that there is substantially less spectrum differentiation in the equatorial regions as opposed to the subtropics. However, it is important to note that DJ Short (not DJ Shorts, as your hilarious post would indicate you think his name is) says that the best way to grow these sativas is in a gymnasium, with 5000W MH lights. This is simply not practical for most growers. What is practical for most growers is to use an HPS and a MH if they can handle the amps and heat, or to use an HPS and some bluer spectrum T5s, and maybe a UV spectrum lamp for short periods. Which leads me to my next point.
I am not arguing here really to prove a point, I am arguing because I love this plant. I love the medicinal effects, I love the beauty of the flowers and the symmetrical wonder of the leaves, and the evolutionary perfection that is its plant biology. In particular, I love sativas. They are kind of my thing. Before this whole medicinal thing I grew them exclusively, for years. So to see you post your pictures of mutilated, mistreated, abused plants, well, it sickens me. The fact that you would harvest them weeks or months early instead of pursuing odor control measures is offensive to the very nature of my being. If they were pets, animal control would take them away from you and the cops would throw your ass in jail for animal abuse. It would be one thing if you came in here begging and pleading for help and advice after treating your poor plants so dreadfully.
However, this is not the case. You post in every thread about the same misguided, repetitive, and frequently dangerously incorrect garbage; and you insult everyone with a different opinion. Not only should you not be growing, cannabis should have a restraining order against you. The only drug law the United States should have is one to prevent you from growing or talking about growing cannabis. The fact that you treat your plants so badly, flowering sativas in plastic cups and supposedly under HID lights, and then harvest them less than halfway through their natural grow cycle, completely invalidates any and all opinions you might have on taste, smell, potency, etc. I'd rather smoke mexican ditchweed than your mutilated babies.
You rant about afghanis and indicas almost nonstop, yet it is CBD and CBN, found in the largest quantities in these plants, that have the most valuable medicinal effects. For instance, did you know that CBD has been proven in multiple universities to slow and in some cases even stop cancer cell growth? Yet I have read you openly calling for the murder of people who grow the strains heaviest in these miraculous chemicals. Which, by the way, is pretty hypocritical behavior for someone who won't grow some of the best strains on the market due to violent nomenclature. So, in short, you are a plant-abusing, misinformed, bloviating, hypocritical, asshat. A liar and a fraud. And, as much as I might like to just let this one slide, I think it is important for other people to see just what kind of a jackass you are.
