This week, Jason and Cian ushered in a fresh session of thoughtful cultivation conversations thanks to the growmies! The guys touched on everything from the complexities of canopy uniformity and the science behind optimal VPD levels, to dealing with larger substrate sizes, sensor placement accuracy, optimal moisture contents for drying and curing and so much more.
Some words of wisdom from the episode:
“Do I have any growing information about how this plant behaves…maybe previous growth cycles that I've taken written documentation on, maybe digital, hopefully data logged documentation on growth? Do I have any connections with someone else that has grown it, or possibly the breeder that grew it? Those are the places that I like to start.” – Jason
“How much light, how much CO2, do you have water and nutrients that are appropriate – those are your basics, right? Say you're doing all this in a tent in your basement and you only have limited resources. Focus there first. But also, do you have appropriate heat and airflow? Can you get CO2 in there to be able to match your lighting? And all these little questions that start kind of predicting whether or not you're going to be able to have the type of success that you want with it as you scale…All of those factors need to be working together in concert in order to be able to really achieve the success that you want.” – Cian
“When we're looking at the photosynthetic equation, we have CO2 plus water catalyzed by light, it's giving those sucrose molecules that the plant's growing from. So CO2 levels and light – if we don't have enough light, we cannot catalyze the appropriate chemical reactions in order for the plant to build up to its potential.” – Jason