New Grower Which way do roots grow?

[YouDon'tKnowMe]

You're right! I'm incredibly embarrassed, I must have misread something years ago because I thought the intensity of the light dropped by 1000 or 2000 lumens per square foot, not dropped down to 1000 or 2000 lumen/ft^2. Thanks for the correction, maybe I gotta lay off the :joint:

 

[Mr Piggy]

No worries, I smoke WAY too much as well. You'll see me have my stoner moments, don't you worry

I'm not sure what you mean by light intensity dropping, if so it's a distance measurement and not an area measurement. (1 foot away from light source in any direction instead of 1 square foot) Granted the example I gave is a little extreme as it's summer clear sky vs winter cloudy, but location is key in everything. Different places around the world get different intensities of light and a cloud here is as good as a brick vs a cloud somewhere else being thin and letting much more light through. Lumen per lumen we can match the sun, but it has us beat in spectrum. The best pot I've smoked I grew outdoors.

Best of all, the sun is free

 

[Grow weed]

Sunlight may be recorded using a sunshine recorder, pyranometer or pyrheliometer. Sunlight takes about 8.3 minutes to reach the Earth. On average, it takes energy between 10,000 and 170,000 years to leave the sun's interior and then be emitted from the surface as light.[2]
Direct sunlight has a luminous efficacy of about 93 lumens per watt of radiant flux. Bright sunlight provides illuminance of approximately 100,000 lux or lumens per square meter at the Earth's surface. The total amount of energy received at ground level from the sun at the zenith is 1004 watts per square meter, which is composed of 527 watts of infrared radiation, 445 watts of visible light, and 32 watts of ultraviolet radiation. At the top of the atmosphere sunlight is about 30% more intense, with more than three times the fraction of ultraviolet (UV), with most of the extra UV consisting of biologically-damaging shortwave ultraviolet.[3][4][5]
Sunlight is a key factor in photosynthesis, the process used by plants and other autotrophic organisms to convert light energy, normally from the sun, into chemical energy that can be used to fuel the organisms' activities.

you can try put 1000 watt per m2(goodluck with cooling) and stil the outdoor plants are beter, becuase indoor lighting stil doesnt match the spectrum of the sun

@ts roots tend to go search for water and water is generaly deeper in the ground, afghan landraces are known to root down to 15m in search for water

 

[mr jones15]

They're sitting outside haven't popped outta the ground yet, just germinated a cream caramel also planting it today

Edit: not out of the ground I meant their pots