Welcome back to Office Hours Live! Today Cian and Jason debate vegging in place versus dedicated veg rooms, explore solutions for the latest wave of unkillable pests, how to maximize efficiency when resetting grow rooms, and plenty more. As always, this episode is packed with expert advice and practical tips to elevate your cultivation game. Plus, don't miss a special shoutout to Jack Whipple's free crop steering ebook and an exciting community event in Sacramento.
Here are some of our favorite quotes from the week:
“If you're getting fully developed seeds, then there's something pretty significant going on … This is also where I'd look at the general stress factors, because obviously it sounds like you're looking at substrate conditions. It's pretty easy to overlook some things that end up getting you. That's why I love the data. There are a lot of times I grow a cycle and it's like, “What? What happened here?” And then we can go back and look at the data.”
— Jason
“Obviously data is only as strong as the sources of that information, right? In the past I've worked with a system where a sensor wasn't necessarily giving me the right data. So typically, when I think about where to begin diagnosing this, I’ll take a look at sensors. What's the quality of the sensor in that room? Is it reliable? Has it been validated or verified or calibrated as needed?”
— Jason
“Anyone who's seen very many episodes of this knows I'm always very careful around the word ‘stress’ because I think a lot of times it's misused. When I'm looking at data points, it's very difficult to talk about what is stress in there. The plant is the only thing that can assess what stress is.
“Temporary wilting point is sometimes an effective way of increasing chemical potencies. Sometimes you can also do it at the right time in order to get a little bit higher metabolism in the plant – that's starting to get at the edge of crop steering, where we're using steering to manipulate the variables to swing hormone balances, morphology and plant growth.
“When you start playing around with significant stressors – elements that cause that plant stress visually – then you're pushing the edge. And that can be helpful in certain strains and certain amounts of application and intensity, and sometimes it can be detrimental.”
— Jason