Switch from 18-6 to 12-12 to finish Autos?

twentyeight.threefive

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Photone here with a uni-t Meter. Photone has a calibration setting. With the uni-t it was only off 6% when compared to readings from an apogee (I rent for calibration). When I used the light sensor on my android it wouldn't even read past 650umol/s full stop.

Can confirm it is very inaccurate with the standard light sensor.
we weren't discussing the app at all until I posted the link to the calculator. Troll elsewhere.
 

LeastExpectedGrower

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I love all animals, except the woodpeckers that like to peck up our house. I thought they were cool at first, lol.
Yep. I hear that. We have downy, hairy, red-breasted & occasional piliated. One late summer a few years ago one crazy little downy started attacking our house. The 'gable end' on the sound looks like someone took to it with a machine gun. Every year there's a reminder from someone in our yard that we're only borrowing the property from the wilds and they own it, not us.
 

PadawanWarrior

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Yep. I hear that. We have downy, hairy, red-breasted & occasional piliated. One late summer a few years ago one crazy little downy started attacking our house. The 'gable end' on the sound looks like someone took to it with a machine gun. Every year there's a reminder from someone in our yard that we're only borrowing the property from the wilds and they own it, not us.
I've chased bears outta our garage, and have seen mountains lions a few times. Saw one eat the neighbors cat once.
 

LeastExpectedGrower

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I've chased bears outta our garage, and have seen mountains lions a few times. Saw one eat the neighbors cat once.
Bears are in the area but I haven't seen any on our cams yet. For them I just worry about my hives. Though my wife asks 'what will you do if you see a bear attacking your hives", I reply "let them do it?". We have coyote and tons of foxes. Foxes so comfortable that they'll walk next to you at about 5' distance around the yard during the day.
 

PadawanWarrior

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Bears are in the area but I haven't seen any on our cams yet. For them I just worry about my hives. Though my wife asks 'what will you do if you see a bear attacking your hives", I reply "let them do it?". We have coyote and tons of foxes. Foxes so comfortable that they'll walk next to you at about 5' distance around the yard during the day.
Foxes are sneaky fuckers too. One intentionally scared me one day when I first moved to CO. I scared him first, and I swear he was wanting some revenge, lol.

They'd steal my dogs toys and take them back to their den. One day they were tormenting him, so I let him off the chain. He chased that asshole and found their home. He found his shit, and started bring it back, lol.
 

thefullspectrum

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Exceeding DLI happens outside a lot. The plant will be fine, barely affected, but most of that light is just wasted. The plant can only use so much.

Indoors same thing. But paying for electricity for extra light that not only does not benefit the plant but can often damage it. The intensity of close powerful lighting is different to the Sun.

Supplementing co2 allows the DLI to be increased indoors.
 

LeastExpectedGrower

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Foxes are sneaky fuckers too. One intentionally scared me one day when I first moved to CO. I scared him first, and I swear he was wanting some revenge, lol.

They'd steal my dogs toys and take them back to their den. One day they were tormenting him, so I let him off the chain. He chased that asshole and found their home. He found his shit, and started bring it back, lol.
You do have to be careful, and the one that would be in our yard in daytime ALL the time was a problem even though not aggressive. They are rabies vectors and at a farm right up the road a few years back, one attacked a neighbor and indeed was rabid. Luckily he didn't get bitten and they shot/tested the fox.

They're 'foxy'...on our property you can catch them hiding in the tall grass. They also love to hide under our back deck for a bit and then ambush birds, squirrels, bunnies and chipmunks around our birdfeeders. I enjoy watching them hunt those and occasionally score one. Though I much prefer watching the hawks and an occasional eagle hunt our yard. Valentines Day last year we were entertained by a sharp shinned hawk catching eviscerating (live) and tearing up another bird about 15' from our window. Serious blood on the snow shit.

The foxes don't get away with a whole lot though...we have a family of crows that live out back in one of the bigger trees and they sound the alarm loud and clear for everyone if there's a fox on the prowl. The coyotes only visit after dark and are much quieter.
 
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