NorthofEngland
Well-Known Member
In 2013 I returned to an old dream of growing after an absence of 17 years.
Back in 1996 I had built and equipped a grow room, but pressure from an extremely law abiding girlfriend had persuaded me not to start.
Back then the lights were usually stolen from carparks and warehouses. They were Metal Halide, Mercury Vapour or HPS (we knew about Blue/red spectrum) but they were not specifically made as horticultural grow lamps.
No one had thought of growing in a tent inside a house.
And I knew NO ONE who had, or used, a inline fan and carbon filter.
In fact, occasionally, when you knew that a grow was on a certain street, you could locate the actual house just by following the smell
(and that's NOT hyperbole - that is fact!).
The FUTURE
Energy prices will only go higher so efficiency will become more and more of an issue and a selling point.
LED (and, to a much lesser extent, LEP) lights are already starting to replace HID's with the more technologically adventurous growers.
For me personally the big draws are
LESS ENERGY USAGE and
LESS HEAT SIGNATURE.
The minus's are
THE EXPENSE
THE LACK OF A RECOGNISED STANDARD
(every seller can make whatever claims they please and never need prove them)
Although less heat would be a BIG BENEFIT in UK, at this time of year, the heat helps to keep the tent at an appropriate temp/RH for the plants.
It's during the DARK CYCLE that I must watch the temp dropping TOO LOW.
In the warmer months this issue will of course reverse.
Apart from LIGHTS I think that, as MARIJUANA BECOMES LESS ILLEGAL and MORE ACCEPTED that CUTTINGS/CLONES will become easier to buy.
Maybe, like picking out a LOBSTER in a RESTAURANT TANK it will be possible to pick the branch on a LIVING MOTHER?
Different strains and crosses will continue to appear.
They are good business but, really, the available genetics now are not really that different from the ones you could buy in 1993.
No 'ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND' type advances,,,,
More ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL packages.
Thermostat, humidistat readers that cause fans to speed up/slow down as well as controlled temps of reservoirs (and oxygenation levels)
EC and pH readers built in to allow automatic adjustment of nutes (et al) dependent on the signals of the plants.
FULLY MECHANISED, FULLY AUTOMATIC growing environments.
WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR FUTURE GROWING ADVANCES???
Back in 1996 I had built and equipped a grow room, but pressure from an extremely law abiding girlfriend had persuaded me not to start.
Back then the lights were usually stolen from carparks and warehouses. They were Metal Halide, Mercury Vapour or HPS (we knew about Blue/red spectrum) but they were not specifically made as horticultural grow lamps.
No one had thought of growing in a tent inside a house.
And I knew NO ONE who had, or used, a inline fan and carbon filter.
In fact, occasionally, when you knew that a grow was on a certain street, you could locate the actual house just by following the smell
(and that's NOT hyperbole - that is fact!).
The FUTURE
Energy prices will only go higher so efficiency will become more and more of an issue and a selling point.
LED (and, to a much lesser extent, LEP) lights are already starting to replace HID's with the more technologically adventurous growers.
For me personally the big draws are
LESS ENERGY USAGE and
LESS HEAT SIGNATURE.
The minus's are
THE EXPENSE
THE LACK OF A RECOGNISED STANDARD
(every seller can make whatever claims they please and never need prove them)
Although less heat would be a BIG BENEFIT in UK, at this time of year, the heat helps to keep the tent at an appropriate temp/RH for the plants.
It's during the DARK CYCLE that I must watch the temp dropping TOO LOW.
In the warmer months this issue will of course reverse.
Apart from LIGHTS I think that, as MARIJUANA BECOMES LESS ILLEGAL and MORE ACCEPTED that CUTTINGS/CLONES will become easier to buy.
Maybe, like picking out a LOBSTER in a RESTAURANT TANK it will be possible to pick the branch on a LIVING MOTHER?
Different strains and crosses will continue to appear.
They are good business but, really, the available genetics now are not really that different from the ones you could buy in 1993.
No 'ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND' type advances,,,,
More ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT CONTROL packages.
Thermostat, humidistat readers that cause fans to speed up/slow down as well as controlled temps of reservoirs (and oxygenation levels)
EC and pH readers built in to allow automatic adjustment of nutes (et al) dependent on the signals of the plants.
FULLY MECHANISED, FULLY AUTOMATIC growing environments.
WHAT ARE YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR FUTURE GROWING ADVANCES???