Talking under-canopy lighting & more with Faven’s Tim Crowell!

This week we invited our friend Tim Crowell to join the show as our special guest! Tim (aka BobbyBagz) shared how he got into cultivation, gave us the scoop on the red-hot Sacramento cannabis scene, and explained how years of R&D into under-canopy lighting ultimately led to the launch of Faven Lighting last year before joining Jason in answering some of your live cultivation questions! 

Check out these highlights:

Under-canopy lighting benefits

“There are so many little intricacies that go on to just having a little more heat under the canopy. That means the VPD between the top of your plant and the bottom and the middle of your plant are actually more even, so the plant is actually metabolizing a lot more efficiently…That little bit of heat actually does help because we measure the VPD at the top, but what's your unders looking like? It's very wet and it's very cool down there. Adding a little bit of light, it creates more sources of energy for the plant than sinks of energy.” 

– Tim Crowell, Faven

Defoliation tips with under-canopy lighting

“Instead of deleafing like crazy to get that upward mobility of the light, you're better off dropping plant count than to just strip your plants of every leaf they have, in my opinion, just from what I've witnessed.” 

– Tim Crowell, Faven

Going gen to grow for quality

“You grow how you want to grow. Just grow it how you want to grow it. I think you could probably throw one P2 on there and really be happy with your quality. A lot of times we'll throw a last-ditch P2 on things because we're undersized in our substrate…and we have to. But if you don't have to and you want to keep it generative and water once a day, that's just called old-school growing. It all works.” 

– Tim Crowell, Faven