Following The Grow Boss tips on YouTube
"...yield is based on light, quality is based on growers talent"
"...number one problem is, too much light, too much water, too many nutrients"
Nutrients : (after having issues with nut burns, I decided to use Grow Boss's perfect ppm calculator)
Invasion T (Glomus intraradices BEG72 and TRICHODERMA atrovide MUCL45632) 1g / plant
Monster X mycorhizes (500 000 propaguls / Kg , made in vitro) 2g / 20cl then complete to make 1l
Humic Fulvic Booster (humic and fulvic acids) 1ml / 1l
Cannazym 2.5ml / 1lRhizoponics 0.4ml/1l
Lights:
1 x Adjust-A-Wings Avenger 600w HPS SuperPlant Super Red 85000Lumens 2000K
Soil:Platinium Royal Mix premium quality
What is vapor pressure deficit?
Often, marijuana growers who have their plants in indoor grow tents or rooms with artificial lighting, take into account parameters such as temperature and relative humidity to maximize plants growth and bloom, thus obtaining abundant harvest with top quality flowers. As we will see later, these factors affect different processes of the plant, such as transpiration or nutrient uptake.
However, we usually forget about another important factor that is related to the aforementioned ones: vapor pressure deficit or VPD. Broadly speaking, VPD is the difference between the amount of water vapor that the atmosphere is able to retain (which depends on temperature) and the amount of water vapor contained in it (relative humidity). It is usually measured in kilopascals (kPa).
Providing our plants with a correct relationship between temperature and relative moisture will keep us on the right VPD parameters, increasing the plant’s activity and thus improving its growth and showing its full potential during the flowering phase. The ideal would be to adjust both parameters (temperature and humidity) to get the best possible VPD value, so that the development of plants will be amazing.
In the chart above you can see the right temperature and moisture values to maximize the development of cannabis plants. The green zone shows you optimal values of VPD, in which it would be ideal to maintain the environment. The orange zone shows correct values, in which plants should not have problems to develop normally. However, red areas show values in which your plants will be very far from hit their full potential, since the relation between temperature and moisture is not optimal.
With relatively high values of VPD (between 5 and 12) plants tend to open their stomata and release a considerable amount of water vapor into the environment (increasing their transpiration). This increase in transpiration results in an increase in the plant’s photosynthetic activity, which will need more nutrients and will improve its overall growth, both during growth and bloom. The best range is between 7.5 and 10.5, which we have marked in green. However, we must be careful that VPD is not too high (dark red zone) since the plant would close its stomata to avoid releasing too much water vapor to the environment, which would result in fast dehydration due to excessive transpiration.
On the other hand, if VPD is too low (light red zone), the plant will also close its stomata for not releasing more water into the atmosphere, which in this case would be already saturated (it would have reached the maximum water retention capacity in a specific temperature). In this way, reducing transpiration will also reduce photosynthesis, which has a direct impact on the plant’s development and yield.
That way, VPD is essential when it comes to offer the best conditions for the development of plants, also to understand its water requirements according to the nutrients used and thus adjust them correctly to meet the grower’s expectations.
N/B: SAY NO TO DRUGS
[Day 1]Water pH 6.5 + Rhizoponics (1ml/1l), total ppm:347
[Day 4]Water pH 6.5 + Rhizoponics (0.4ml/1l) + Humic Fulvic (0.4ml/1l) total ppm:368
[Day 9]tTransplanted, added Invasion T (1g/plant), Monster X (2g/1l), Rhizoponics (0.4ml/1l), Humic Fulvic Booster (1ml/1l), Cannazym (2.5ml/1l), in water at pH 6.5, total ppm 898
[Day 18]I shouldn't start it under the 600w MH, she started Veg instead of making roots ....😔
[Day 24]Watering pH 6.5 + Rhizoponics 0.4ml/1l + Humic Fulvic 1ml/1l + cannazym 1.2ml/1l Total PPM: 426
[Day 31]Transplanted into 5 gals potWatering pH 6.5 + Rhizoponics 0.6ml/1l + Humic Fulvic 2ml/1l + Cannazym 2ml/1l Total PPM: 486
[Day 35]Watering pH 6.5 + Rhizoponics 0.5ml/1l + Humic Fulvic 2ml/1l + Cannazym 2ml/1l Total PPM: 510
[Day 41]Watering pH 6.5
[Day 43]Flushing from 1030ppm to 860ppm
[Day 52]Monster cropping , breaking the 2 mains stems, one has been heavily damaged it may not recover !