Indoor Growing Scrog

[Antonio_DutchPassion]

After using the Growcraft and a few other lights for a few years, I used ChatGPT to help customize my lighting schedule and I recommend it highly if you'd like to fine tune your plant shape.

The biggest issue, though, it putting more light on your plants. Cannabis matures by about day 21 to be able to process 1kµmol of light. That's really important for autoflowers because the veg time is so short. More light earlier ensures a bigger canopy so the autoflower timer kicks over into flower mode. I run photos and auto 24/0 because cannabis is a C3 plant so it does not need darkness to do its Calvin cycle processing and you cannot "catch up" by trying to add more light later in the grow. For autos, I run at 70-80 DLI through the life of the plant.

Please don't think chatGPT is God Almighty that has all the answers you need. Especially in complex matters he/she/the machine is often very wrong, they come up with randomized answers through a scan of the internet and it really doesn't make sense all the time. Combining knowledge with random statements is more what happens.. and without feeding it with more & more detailed feedback and questions what you actually need the answer could be quite far from the truth. But yeah, you probably knew this already..

Although I don't want to bash you on what you just said on a personal level, so please don't take this wrongly, I'm having some questions about it and placing some (rather big) questions marks by the statements you made here above (the ones I copied). But maybe you can give us some extra information about how you got to this conclusion

First of all, I'm having trouble believing a cannabis plant of merely 21 days old (or even younger) can handle 1000PPFD, no matter this is an autoflower or photoperiod that is actually a light feeder. Even more so on 24/0.... Was that what you meant by that statement? Or are you growing with high CO2 levels from the start as well?

Also, the statement of plants not being able to catch up, means you believe it is not beneficial to up the light levels in stages, nor it would make any difference to plant health, structure / yield to do this at a later stage at all? I can tell you it makes all the difference even for long Vegged plants that are for example grown for 6-8 weeks on 18/6 with about 300w LED's whether I flower them under 400w LED or 600w LED in terms of bud structure and yield.

To conclude, so you use a DLI of 70-80 from start to finish? With or without CO2? To me this sounds pretty insane for young/mature plants even with CO2... And also a bit like a waste of photons in the room, but again I could be reading/having this wrongly so please explain yourself/enlighten me if possible!