Brandon, We breed cannabis in USA, Colorado LEGALLY! flip the light to 24 hours for a cpl weeks. The introduce no more than 5 hours of NO LIGHT per lite cycle. Then use nitrogen only example (5,0,0). The plants will regenerate new shoots , usually with in weeks. You can clone these new shoots. The plant will have a hard time returning to the veg cycle if it is late into flowering. But if you can get new shoots you can clone and save the genetics. If you keep more than 18 hours of light the plants will Usually return to veg. Sativa and Indica plants will shange according to nutrients and light. However if your plant are Cannabis Ruderalis your efforts will not be efficitve. Cannabis Ruderalis is an Auto-flower, meaning it is not effected by lite cycle, photo period. One last thing, cannabis does not count hours of light. It only counts hours of continuous dark . Here is a link that might be useful: photo period chart provided on this page.

I run all regular magnetic/iron ballast and I think it is the 1000w that's noisy, 600 and 400 hardly make a sound at all. Lumenmax is a very nice reflector, but why not use the reflectorized HPS (Gavita type) from HTG supply - you'll have the most ideal reflector available, the lamp will be out in the open and the natural ventillation will help keep it cooler, plus that lamp puts out 95,000 glorious lumens. Both the hood and the bulb make a huge difference. It's just my impression that for a bonsai you don't need those huge lumens, it would just be overkill, and that amount of light, 4000 lumens per square foot might actually be injurious - that type of intensity is more for growing a crop, like cannabis for example, or a nice huge crop of peppers or tomatoes. Lumenmax is an absolutely wonderful reflector, the 400w iron/magnetic ballasts that I have only make a little tiny humming noise, I've never experienced any of the annoying hum that you hear people talk about on internet forums, UNLESS you are living in the same area as your garden is, in that case silence is golden and I would agree with you buying a solid state ballast, and the ones available on ebay, in my experience work well - otherwise they would be getting bad feedback. However, Pulse Start metal halide ballasts are generally ONLY available from aquarium places, and I would really believe you would be extremely happy with a USHIO pulse start lamp that has very nice maintained lumens, very nice initial lumens, and one 400w lamp would be plenty for a 5x5 garden. Pulse start lamps are nice because you can leave them running continuously without danger of shattering or blowing up, and they have a re designed optimized cavity that burns brighter and tends not to get black like the probe start lamp. Sativa.

Cannabis contains many different chemicals. THC is the chemical that gets you high, CBD is one of the chemicals that has the most medical benefit. Both of these can be found in medical cannabis - some with just one, some with both, depending on the application. In terms of cancer treatment and chemotherapy in specific, THC is the more useful of the two because of several effects. First, it induces an appetite. One of the first things that happens with most chemo is a loss of appetite because the taste buds are dulled and everything tends to get a metallic taste due to cisplatin (one of the chemo drugs.) The other effect is relaxation. Cancer causes anxiety. Chemo makes that anxiety much worse. THC relaxes the patient and relieves much of the anxiety. The old adage "stress kills" is real life. Cancer is stress to the nth degree. Relieving that stress may be the difference between successful treatment and failure. For other medical problems, the amount of each of the chemicals in cannabis determines what it's effects on the human body will be. Seizures require more CBD. PTSD requires more THC. And so on. I'm not a doctor, although I was a paramedic for almost a dozen years and, having lost a wife to cancer and battling my own cancer, I've spent hundreds of hours pouring through medical research that relates to cannabis and cancer. So, I'm not an expert, but I've got a good feel for what works.

I am glad to know some of you are finding some results. I am using the CBD oil...cherry limeade flavor...and do not mind the taste, but I usually put it in my juice, but one needs to take it with 8 oz of fluid...but not a hot drink. I can not tell much difference, although a couple of my friends think my tremor is not shaking as badly. JoAnn, mine was $60 from the store but I understand you can get the oil online for $30 but I wanted to visit with someone before I started taking it. I asked about the pill form and he said that I would lose some of the potential result by the pill having to dissolve it in my body. I had not seen my friend who is taking the oil for her Parkinson’s for a couple of months until last week and her hand did not shake a bit anymore and it used to continually tremor...so I am very happy for her results.