Good morning,
I've always noticed that while being an indoor grower the trichs on my indoor plants do not consume the plant as much as the same plant being grown outdoors.
In the years past, i've always grown both in a bedroom under a T5 light on cloudy days and moving them out to the back porch on full sun days for some "Natural" light growing especially during the flower cycle.
For the Ladies who were under the sun all day trich production always seemed much higher as they'd just glaze over and glisten. While the same strain grown under the T5 exclusively just didn't glisten as much.
That gave me the impression that trich production increased as well as resin production to fill those extra trich were used more as a sunscreen protecting the plant from the harmful rays (UVB/UVA) of the sun. Based on that i'd always move my girls to the back porch for natural sunlight over hanging out under the 3000K T5.
According to you guys my thoughts are all wrong .. but, I know what I see in how my Ladies flower and pray to the Sun Gods for more sunny dayz, which those become far and few during the fall here on the PNW Oregon Coast
Have a Great day and good luck with your experiments.. i'll be lurking
don |