should you use UVA or uvp in your grown well in this video we're going to get into it you're
here with Mark Bowell at perfectgardens.com please remember to like share and subscribe
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the description I just want to say thank you so much to our iaf underground for asking the
question they were just basically asking should you use UVA or UVB but before we talk about that
I want to explain what these plants want to do these plants all they want to do throughout the
entire year is prepare their seed to be able to get to The Following season so that they
can continue to keep growing and pushing their genetics into the future and how did they do
that right they do that through conditioning that seed so that it will survive the harsh winter and
what it is one of the things it does to do that it produces essential oils on the planned through
the entire growing season producing more or less dependent upon how harsh the growing environment
is obviously if the plant is grown in a healthy growing environment in good soil grow to growing
nutrients it will produce although the plants that are not grown in the best growing environments how
they survive is getting to producing a mature seed encoding it with its essential oils so that when
The Following season comes around the seed has a chance to pop and grow and the genetics continue
into the future that being said UVB and UVA has really an adverse effect it stresses the plant out
and through the process of stressing the plant out it ends up producing more essential oils the issue
with the stress with the UVA and you the uvp is that you will get less yield so which one's better
right more yield or more essential oil because because the market is still heavily conditioned
on you getting more return investment on yield as well as quality obviously you have to get to
a certain quality but an extra five percent ten percent twenty percent of essential oils on the
plant so going from let's say a twenty percent to a 24 on bag of pill when you're turning a couple
pounds or more the guy's not going to say hey you can uh I check out the COA the COA is the
certificate of analysis he's not going to pay you an extra 25 because you have a couple more Terps
on the plant they're there Dubai biomass so right there the UVA and the UVB really is going to not
be for the commercial grower unless they have done metrics over time figuring out how much more oil
the plant produces with the UVA and the UVB and again that would really only be beneficial for
extraction companies that have internal grows that are extracting all their own stuff which
no one's really doing especially as you take into consideration where the Market's going right now
we're going more commercialized so the cost to produce the product is heavily scrutinized in
the corporate environment it's looked at it's measured it's written down and quarter after
quarter season after season the board of directors the CEOs and the executive team their commissions
are normally riding on how much they can make the company or how much they can save the company in
money in just the basic bottom line so when you are able to produce more biomass in Greenhouse or
Outdoors versus producing more oil on indoor operation when it costs you a couple extra
hundred dollars to grow that product when you weigh that cost it just makes more sense to get
your outdoor product even if it is a couple more percent lower in the center oils a huge factor
that a lot of people are missing though I think around the whole UVB and UVA light is instead of
trying to stress the plant out I always go back to just growing a healthier plant giving it all
the essential minerals it needs to grow I talk a lot about photosynthesis when the light comes down
it hits the leaves it creates a spectrum well what is comprised of that Spectrum or how is
that Spectrum made right and it's made because of all of the minerals that are stored in the leaves
and the light hits those leaves and all those minerals that are in the little cell pockets of
those leaves the light comes down and it reflects off and then you have this very unique spectrum of
light well if you're only pumping your plants full of mpk that the Spectrum in my viewpoint will be
very limited that's why I'm always pushing trace minerals right a product called drops of balance
making your water clean increasing that trace minerals because of something called the law
a minimum and the Law of Tolerance getting your bioavailability or your biodynamics in your soil
going and then grow after grow reamending your soil with good healthy amendments that actually
feed the microbiology getting to a point where your soil is healthy and alive and getting to the
point where you've gotten away from synthesized man-made nutrients 100 and you're going back to
a biodynamic living soil if you're a grower that just had maybe a three by three or four by four
tent and wanted to play around with these lights go ahead just be prepared though that the plants
will probably end up yielding a little less they might have a little bit more essential
oils because the plant is going through more stress because you're providing light that is
normally blocked through the atmosphere okay so also really just take that into consideration
too when you're growing indoors so why are we growing indoors where did this industry start
it didn't it started because of the prohibition of these plants we had to grow indoors because
if we didn't it could have costed us years of our life now that we're going through the
decriminalization and the legalization of this industry us getting rid of the old mindset and
going back to more of a traditional mindset or a natural mindset of using the outdoor light and
getting conditioned to Growing Outdoors it is what is going to keep the small Growers alive
and it's going to keep it out of the corporate hands I'm not against corporations and I'm not
against centralizing workload what I'm against is the disconnection that happens when we lose
our connection to the Earth the value of these plants because of the criminalization of them
it has kept a lot of people connected to growing plants that I think other otherwise would enough
because they would have just ended up getting a job or going and doing something else I would
also say that the UVA and the UVB you can get very similar experience by using LEDs now the UVA and
the UVB and mindset really has been around since 30 40 50 years ago when it was printed in the grow
Bible and it's just again one of those things I think distracts a grower from getting profitable
in this industry because there is so much value in growing these plants literally by the per gram
basis all these little ideas of oh you could do this and you could do that to get a better yield
and do that have come out over the course of the last 50 to 70 years and I would just encourage all
of you guys to not get distracted especially if you want to be competitive or if you ever think
about actually doing this as business the time of being able to be creative is really starting
to fade because a lot of times being creative is expensive and the profit margins that used to be
in this industry that used to be able to pay for people's time to be creative really isn't there
anymore and again if you're just doing a three by three or four by four play around with it enjoy
your time if you want to do something go ahead and do it although if you want to learn how to perfect
these plants imperfect your growing techniques then evolve yourself around the business side
of things then I would probably suggest not wasting your time on this stuff focus in on
growing healthy plants give good clean water give all the essential trace minerals you need
control the heat don't let it get too cold don't let your pots dry out and develop healthy good
relationships around you you do all those things I can almost guarantee you you're going to keep
enjoying your time while growing these plants and you'll continue to keep developing yourself over
time I hope this video was helpful please like share and subscribe thanks so much guys [Music]
is it normal that if you took a clone and put it side by side with a plant
that was from seed I think from seeds you're going to get a lot
more production out of the out of it than you would the Clone and is is that a thing