Low Light Marijuana Strain

the reason we are different than the monkeys is cuz of ppl like astro who ask, 'what about this..., wouldnt that solve alot of problems?'

unfortunately, the solution isnt as easy as one might think. in horticulture, its done many times where the new variety is grown in more light than spp. ancestor. but im not sure if ive ever seen where someone has gone the other way, less light from a more light spp. i can rattle off about 30 plants where horticulture has gone from low to hi, but not 1 from hi to low. here is maybe a few reasons...

first we need to limit this talk to the higher flora and not anything under angiosperm in evolutionary terms.

plants in low light have large leaves to capture more light. this also means that it takes more structure to hold up larger leaves. but with less light coming in, that means that the node size would be HUGE vs sunny plant or one gets a squat plant and we all know that squat = squat bud.

plants in low light have thicker leaves to capture and keep in light as well as protection from whatever is producing the shade. but there is only so much light to put on bio-mass so plants in low light typically are much shorter than their genetic kin who have moved to the sunlight. this certainly is a direct correlation between more light = more plant. sunlight is the driving fuel for plants, less = less plant.

mj is an annual and time is of the essance. less light = less time to get busy in plant sex terms. if one is in the northern (or southern) parts of the world, that means that light is even LESS at the beginning and end of growing year (clouds and rain) so the task in these parts of the world is even tougher. i would speculate that more equator neutral varieties of mj would be more shade tollerant just because there life cycle is much longer as well as sunlight that is filtering down is also more consistant vs like where im from, hot one day, cold and rainly and cloudy the next.

one could easily increase the time in which the plant starts flowering (already done with lowryder) which would solve the problem with time needed to put on bud before the end comes. but u reduce the amount of bio-mass fueling the plant has to put on bud. hence the low yield (and maybe potency???) of lowryder.

to sum it up, my guess the formula would go like this;

less light = less bio-mass = less bud.
more light = more bio-mass = more bud.

i think those formuli are going to be hard to change to;
less light = less bio-mass = same bud as more light.

hope that shed some light on ur shady idea.

to change the subject a bit, i think that a real decent genetic step for mj would be to develop much better, the idea of lowryder. a 1 foot completely budded with maybe a 1/2 oz dryweight of decent quality smoke would be a FANTASTIC advancement. imagine the ease of hiding these in the grass. there isnt many places in the world that doesnt have lots of waste lands with grass about 2ft hi. an easily grown from seed plant that has the ability to easily reproduce in this short habbit would be unstopable. from colorado to pa, from texas to 1/2 way up canada, one could easily hide em in the grasses.

 

dont get me wrong, i think one could do it. but im afraid that the buddage wouldnt be up to par. and as i mentioned, i think that breeders should try for that lowgrowing lowryder type plant that is of better quality and is cloneable.

ive grown some plants that were short inside but as soon as they dont have constriction of light, co2, water, root, etc of the inside and live under the sun, they grow 3ft+. and that is pretty tall for a weed in 1-2 ft grassy waste areas. i think a spectacular grower would be a stout, auto flowering and branching so its cloneable 1 ft max hight plant.

 

Apparently a g13 x blue widow is very good in light deprived areas. Also there are some strains from mr nice (ones derived from early girl) that are supposed to do well in a darkened greenhouse. I noticed that my blue widow and early skunk did better than the others in my darkened gh. I certainly think this is a very relevant topic for discussion with the emphasis to be on which strains do better than others in lack of light or low light intensity situations.

 

good post!
i found this thread cuz i was wanting to find a plant to grow indoors that would thrive in max 30000 lumens, i read that the sun puts out like 55000 lumens but as far north as britain (amongst others) the angle of the earth effects the intesity of the light as it has to travel further through the atmosphere. so say this is true then if i can find a strain that thrives in places like britain or further north in finland outdoors then maybe its a safe bet to say they would do well in 30000 lumens (2x 250w cfl should put out a bit more i think).
can any1 put me straight on this?

 

would 30000 lumens grow decant bud anyway? cuz for 500w off electricity ive got to explain off the bill to the person that owns the house it bloody wants to, it would be nice to have the space to use two 250w hps, many many lumens

 

500w is nothing to explain I have a small space heater that uses 800w also a tv and xbox probably use close to 400w or 500w while running. Just throw your plants on 12/12 and thats only using the power for half the day


To the op great question it would be nice to find a shade loving strain. Although with most fruit bearing plants the more light the better.

 

Yeah I agree from the proper scene it's a diminishing return situation with the median between greater yield on a fruiting plant and lower light required, I would think a breeder couldn't considerthis as a direction logically, ya know. And it's basically a principle that is innate cause you already typically have the most yield for the light provided already as a base direction in genetics certainly


But yeah, I think this is a totally logical question in finding the plants that tolarete stretching wattage in grows as some must handle light more efficiently to some noticeable extent between best and worst

 

Yes, specifically for outdoor stealth growing under partial canapy
This would be a really worthy cause to find and develop the most useable genetic

 

Hi guys,
I'm experimenting a low light growth, actually not only low light, but low everything hhhh. I am using a box of 18/16inshes, two CFL lights, one 175 W, the other 150 W, I have no idea what the strain is, just bag seeds of a regular staff, maybe from Mexican forests
It is in Day 4 of flowring, doing good, expecting to know the sex in few days.
I was thinking, if the plant would be a hermie and goes well, i might leave the male sacks to pollinate it , and keep the seeds out of it, do you think the seeds will carry the natural characteristics of their mother ? or will they have the characteristics of the conditions in which their mother grew? this is my big easy project...