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2010 saw extremely high quality viticulture in many parts of the world, with an exceptionally long and hot summer providing huge benefits for wineries across many countries, especially in the southern hemisphere. The northern hemisphere and Europe saw something of a cooler summer and flowering period, but this was by no means as disastrous as it could have been. France, especially, had a fantastic year in 2010, with the world renowned Burgundy region proclaiming that their white wines of this year are ones to look out for, and despite yields being relatively small across much of the country, the quality was exceptionally high. Spain, too, received some cooler weather, but Rioja and the rest of central Spain are hailing 2010 as a very good year indeed, again as a result of smaller, finer yields. California also received similar climatic conditions, but again, wineries are highly positive about the overall effect this had on their produce, as the slightly challenging conditions resulted in smaller yields of much elegance and distinction. 2010 was really Australia's year, and in South Australia and across the Mornington Peninsula, Chardonnay vines produced good yields with a lower sugar level than in previous years. As such, the majority of South Australian white wines from 2010 are superb, and packed full of character. Shiraz also had a great year, and most Australian wineries have been proclaiming 2010 one of the great vintages. Both the Argentinian and Chilean wine industries benefited from some ideal climatic conditions this year, and are reportedly ecstatically pleased with the fact that their 2010 wines ended up with lower alcohol levels, and were beautifully balanced wines packed full of flavor.
Bordeaux red wines are widely regarded as being the finest red wines produced anywhere in the world, regularly topping awards lists and generally being amongst the most sought after and collectable bottles available. The secret to their success and their particularly memorable and refined characteristics is the fact that Bordeaux red wines are made from a blend of grape varietals, most commonly from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes, helped by a touch of Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc. The other two key Bordeaux grape varietals which are also used in the blend of many of these excellent wines are Malbec and Carménere, although it is becoming less common to see these in use today. The art of blending primarily Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grape varietals is something which has been much imitated around the world, as it produces a wonderfully balanced, rounded yet massively complex and flavorful wine, ideal for oak aging The acid and tannin levels in each of these grape varietals is balanced and tempered by the blend, and generations of expertise has gone into the careful selection and cultivation of such quality grapes.
Although most commonly associated with their superb blended red wines, the world-famous region of Bordeaux in France is responsible for a relatively wide array of wines, ranging from the sweet and viscous white wines of Sauternes, to the dry and acidic single variety white wines found all over the region. However, it is the red wines which regularly make the wine world's headlines, and have historically been regarded as the finest on earth. The secret to the region's success is the fact that the warm and humid climate, coupled with mineral rich clay and gravel based soils produces grapes of excellent quality. Wineries in this region have spent hundreds of years mastering the art of blending and oak aging in order to get the best results from each grape, and remain the envy of the world to this day.
France is renowned across the globe for its quality wines and the careful expertise which goes into making them, but what is truly remarkable about this relatively small country is the vast range of wines it produces in such huge amounts each year. Not only are the finest red wines in the world said to come from the beautiful regions of Bordeaux and Burgundy, but elsewhere in the country we find the Champagne region, and areas such as the Rhone Valley and the Loire, whose white wines consistently receive awards and accolades by the plenty. This range is a result of the great variety of climatic conditions and terrain found in France, coupled with generations of wine makers working within single appellations. Their knowledge of specific terroirs and grape varieties has, over time, perfected the production of wines within their region, and the end results continue to impress the world to this day.


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'Candycane sorrel' is a plant in the Oxalis genus with a scientific name of Oxalis versicolor. The botanical name epithet for Candycane sorrel (versicolor) means 'changing color'.
1-1.5" white flowers, tinged with red atop a clover-like mound of leaves.
Candycane sorrel grows as a perennial and is an ornamental. Being a perennial plant, it tends to grow best over several years (approx 3 years and greater). Candycane sorrel normally grows to a max height of 8.58 inches (that's 22.0 cm metric). This plant tends to bloom in mid summer, followed by first harvests in mid summer.This plant info is provided by the myfolia gardener's wiki. All details about Candycane sorrel have been kindly provided by our members.
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Our energy systems must change if we are to combat climate change. Many people are asking whether natural gas can play a role as a "bridging" fuel that enables near-term reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change. "Is natural gas a climate change solution for Canada?" explores... More »
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This report briefly presents the approaches adopted by the five Canadian provinces that currently restrict the use and sale of cosmetic pesticides: Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, as well as Alberta's more limited restriction on pesticide/fertilizer mixtures. It also reviews the process to date in... More »
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What's Inside? That Counts: A survey of toxic ingredients in our cosmetics
Earlier this year, the David Suzuki Foundation invited Canadians to pull back the shower curtain and participate in an online survey about toxic ingredients in common personal care products like soaps, shampoos and cosmetics. This report summarizes key findings from the survey and presents recommendations for cleaning up these products... More »
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Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation, this report analyzes current recovery efforts in Alberta, concluding that the provincial government is not doing enough to protect one of the most threatened grizzly bear populations in North America. Written by Jeff Gailus, M.Sc., for the Alberta Wilderness Association, the Canadian Parks and... More »
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Max Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children)3.5-star riverfront hotel near Springfield Armory
Located in the heart of Springfield, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of MassMutual Center, Springfield Armory, and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Springfield Museums and Quadrangle are also within 10 minutes.
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Along with 2 restaurants, this smoke-free hotel has a restaurant and an indoor pool. Additionally, a health club, a bar/lounge, and a sauna are onsite.
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All 325 rooms offer WiFi, room service, and cable TV. Premium bedding, coffee makers, and free weekday newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel provides a health club, a sauna, and a steam room. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities include a conference center and conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel is a smoke-free property.
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- Total number of rooms - 325
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- Number of restaurants - 2
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Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a health club, a sauna, and a steam room.
Children under 16 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision. Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the health club or fitness facility.
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Everton boss David Moyes has admitted he is concerned by his side's erratic start to the season after Saturday's 2-0 derby loss to Liverpool marked their third home defeat of the campaign.
The Toffees conceded two second-half goals to Fernando Torres in quick succession and then had salt rubbed into their wounds with the late sending off of Tim Cahill.
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"Maybe you can see the difference £100million makes to a team, but I expect my team to compete. And for most of the game they did."
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"I have had a chance to look at and I don't see a red card tackle, I really don't," he told the club's official website.
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Does anyone know how to get the device phone number programmatically?
Am a bit confused here. Are you asking how to get the phone number from a particular device?
If yes, you could make a call from it, you could go to options / security / sim, and check it there...
Unless of course I've totally mis-understood the question. And believe me, that's possible...
Wait, I've just check the location of this thread. Are you asking for 'coding' that would generate the number for you? Like on the Nokia's you can do somehting like #760...# and it tells you the number...
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From what i understand, you would want to possible go to Options --> Sim Card and the number should appear there.
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Some of the most violent collisions in all of sports occur in American football. The average spectator has seen the following scenario dozens of times: a wide receiver hauls in a deep pass, only to be pounded by a helmet-to-helmet collision with an unseen defender. That crack-and-thud delivers tremendous force to the tissues of the brain.
Only recently has there been rapid growth in public awareness of the potential health consequences of concussions (also known as mild Traumatic Brain Injury) –fueled by new medical research linking concussions to brain damage. Thirty-one states have passed legislation to protect young athletes from multiple concussions, such as Pennsylvania's "Safety in Youth Sports Act," which took effect in July, requiring that all interscholastic athletes who leave the field due to concussion receive medical attention from clinical staff specifically trained in concussion evaluation and management.
Temple University's Concussion and Athletic Neurotrauma Program meets the requirements of that law, and offers experienced, multidisciplinary faculty who are well-suited to evaluate and manage athletic-induced neurotrauma utilizing the latest imaging capabilities, computerized neurocognitive assessment tools, and established return-to-play protocols.
"The rate of concussion among football players is not in decline, despite claims of continuing advances in the designs and materials of helmets," says Temple Orthopedist Joseph Torg, MD, a senior member of the Temple concussion program's clinical care team, which is made up of athletic trainers, orthopaedic sports medicine specialists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, and physiatrists. The program's team sees patients at state-of-the-art facilities at Temple University Hospital, as well as Temple Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine satellite offices throughout greater Philadelphia. Program staff work to meet the needs of team and family physicians, athletic trainers and administrators, coaches, parents, and – of course – the young athletes who are "as vulnerable to concussion as ever," according to Dr. Torg.
Enhanced protective measures – including rule changes, gradual increases in the use of protective equipment, and even new helmet designs – have done little, if anything, to drive down the rate of concussion, according to a recent study, led by Dr. Torg, of data on concussions suffered by high school football players. The more critical protective factors against concussion, Dr. Torg found, are proper fit and proper inflation of the air bladders that line most football helmets – both of which should be checked regularly, he says.
In addition to treating patients in the Temple University Concussion and Athletic Neurotrauma Program, Dr. Torg has turned his research attention to what he calls "the first and currently unappreciated step in resolving acute brain injury problems," which is to develop a "concussion susceptibility profile" to identify athletes who are far more likely to experience concussion in the first place, and who may be more likely to suffer from cognitive deficits and physical symptoms that linger long after most patients recover from concussion symptoms.
For more information or to schedule an appointment with a Temple physician, call 1-800-TEMPLE-MED (1-800-836-7536).
Date Published: Thursday, November 15, 2012
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And why I will owe my mother for the rest of my life.
More ...Major / Minor: English / Japanese
Activities: College Choir, Womyn's Center
Favorite Pastimes: Getting lost in the Root Glen, spending laundry money on chai lattes from Cafe Opus, dancing to jukebox music at the Diner, hoarding tea from McEwen and study parties in KJ.
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Sep 16th, 2014
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Sep 16th, 2014
Sep 12th, 2014
Bazan Monthly
I'd been meaning to write about this ever since it began in July. Dave Bazan has been releasing two new tracks each month for five months and the result is some of his best songs to date. This month features tracks: With You and Little Landslides, On With You, he's resurrecting an electronic beat reminiscent of his Headphones days, but with more complex layering. Bazan rarely writes love songs but with these, he reveals a certain vulnerability – a darkness that only he can bring into what would be considered a love song, "self-loathing, paranoia, jet lag, alcohol, bad dreams, long-distance calls" a laundry list of woes experienced on the road while maintaing a relationship. In Little Landslides he examines his internal landscape, "another young man tells his story before his heart is even broken one time, like a standup who forgets his punchline" suggests that Bazan's heart seen and endured heartache, he becomes an authority on the matter, like a rite of passage that must be experienced to be written of.
Another standout from the series include Sparkling Water, it's one of those Bazan's songs that evokes such melancholy, something about the simplicity of his repetition, "you know, I don't" and all of the alienating experiences of being in a man's or woman's body, trying to relate or connect or occupy the same space. Something that feels impossible and only invites a feeling of loneliness.
A tension pervades the series, as he laments on the human experience as it relates to other, being in relationship and one's own understanding of being alone. His style of songwriting has graduated from pointing the finger at religious hypocrisy and oppression on more of a societal level – to an exploration of the human psyche in a way that feels tender, forgiving and human. You can buy the entire series here.
Sep 12th, 2014
Grouper – Call Across Rooms
Sep 10th, 2014
Blake Mills – Heigh Ho
Here is the thing, I am not a guitarist, nor do I pretend to know what I'm talking about when referencing guitar styles. Despite taking a guitar-for-beginners adult night class and spending countless hours noodling around in front of Rocksmith, I do not play.
But I am a feeler of feelings. And for Blake Mills' sophomore album, Heigh Ho, I have many.
The mythology of Blake Mills seems to have transcended that of my tight-knit group of friends who swore Break Mirrors was the best album of 2010, and those who entered our circle only after careful consideration that they might be the kind of people who would really get it, and would in effect, 'get us'. We would include songs like 'Cheers' in mixtapes to one another and play it for each other to ignite a potent nostalgia for the times we first heard it. This, it seems, is a sentiment shared by other secret friend groups, who together form a larger tapestry of people-who-like-under-appreciated-music. That, along with a string of collaborations with such artists as Fiona Apple, Cass McCombs, Julian Casablancas, Jenny Lewis, Jackson Browne, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Alabama Shakes (along with a slew of notable collaborators on Heigh Ho) and more as well as a a recent nod from Eric Clapton as a phenomenal guitarist, converged to reveal an undisputed truth: Blake Mills is as skillful a musician as he is a songwriter and that playing well still matters to people.
I have only listened to Heigh Ho a couple of times over, mostly with headphones in my office trying hard not to get tearful while listening to Blake and Fiona croon playfully over Seven, imagining that I lived in a universe where a gentleman-like cowboy would tilt his hat my way and ask me to slow dance in his living room. Or the subtle, pulsing theatrics of Cry to Laugh (which reminds me of a Fiona Apple song I cannot pinpoint). Don't Tell Our Friends About Me, in contrast feels the most confessional, (something similar to his older – It'll All Work Out) where he sings, "and I'll write songs that'll help me deal with issues, and sure, some people may hear too much" which is so direct in it's delivery that you feel like it's a line you weren't supposed to hear. Like he shared a moment of honesty, where the lines between fictional narrative and artist were blurred and the song becomes funny and vulnerable. It is in his standout single If I'm Unworthy that he reveals the natural evolution of his work, because it feels like a fully-realized song, written with a certain texture in mind and with it, a sort of intention of a feeling to be transferred to the listener. A slow burning excitement towards absolute chaos and back down to a soft, immaculate steadiness, then again marching towards a release. There is a magic in it. The entire record, it seems, is considerate of that kind of magic- heard in the strings on Half Asleep create a Disney-esque dream world, or the sparse and quiet harmonies of Gold Coast Sinking. It all feels delicate and precise, like something beautiful is unraveling, and if the light hits the room at a certain hour and everyone is dancing in sync, then a perfect moment can be achieved.
The album is out on Sept 16th via Verve/Record Collection and he's playing in select cities to support it. You can stream the album over at Pitchfork right now.
Sep 10th, 2014
Amen Dunes – Splits are Parted
New video for Amen Dunes' Splits are Parted. Pick up Love, it's one of my favourite records of the year.
Sep 3rd, 2014
Mac Demarco – Angel Olsen Cover
Mac Demarco covers "Lights Out" off Angel Olsen's sophomore record 'Burn Your Fire For No Witness'
Sep 2nd, 2014
Sept Mix
Here it is, the September mix. Happy 3 year anniversary, mix club!
It's always easy in September because this is the month when everything good comes out. There are so many good albums streaming right now: Delta Spirit, Ryan Adams, Tennis, and soon to be released, the new Blake Mills, Generationals, Julian Casablancas, and the monthly tracks that Dave Bazan has been releasing (and probably a few others that I've forgotten). Basically, order has been restored in the otherwise vapid wasteland that was music this summer.
Other things I've been digging as of lately: Miranda July's new Somebody App. Get it and we will become somebodies together. Catherine Lacey's book: Nobody is ever missing. Rebecca Curtis' Twenty Grand. Lena Dunham's hilarious New Yorker short story from her upcoming novel. And more importantly, the latest season of Inside Amy Schumer is up and streamable in all of it's filthy glory. If I could line up all the women in the world and choose just one to be my best friend, it would be Amy Schumer.
Jul 28th, 2014
FWBA's August Mix / 5th Blogiversary
To celebrate 5 years of Friends With Both Arms, I put together an August mix, which actually isn't so unusual, since I've been doing that every month for the last two years, it's just been secret. So, for one time only, I'm opening the list up to some new members. If you want to be in the secret club, sign up here.
Jul 27th, 2014
French Style Furs – Turn or Burn
French Style Furs is members of Cold War Kids and We Barbarians. Stream their debut album here.
Jul 23rd, 2014
I've been listening to this band Alvvays all week and only now did I realize they are from my lovely city of Toronto. The band, led by Molly Rankin has that teen angst I've been looking for as I come off the heels of my California adventures. LA, I MISH YOU. Their debut album came out yesterday so you can pick it up here: http://bit.ly/alvvays


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Has anyone thought about how the "glow" of hps bulbs upon shutdown affect the flowering of our plants? The arc tube burns around 700C which is about 1000K, and at those temperatures produce a radiation peak around 3,000nm. This is in the IR range, but there is also some visible light obviously, as it 'glows" for a while upon shutdown. This glow is mostly IR radiation, but theres is also some far-red and just a bit of red. This results in a high FR/R ratio initially and as the bulbs continues to cool the spectrum shifts even farther until no red or far-red is produced. The flowering of plants is affected by the LAST 'color' of light the it recieves. Red light interrupts the flowering of short-day plants, and far-red is believed to speed it up. You can flash red/far-red/red/far-red at a plant after hours of darkness, and as long as the last light the plant 'sees' is far-red it will still flower. The point is that the end-of-day light will be composed of a high FR/R ratio which increases the rate of flowering in SDP (weed).My advice would be to close your grow box before the HID turns off, so to prevent exposure to other light sources. This could also explain why CFLs aren't the greatest for flowering. They stop producing light right when they get shut off, and the R/FR ratios never change. So if Im right, you could theorotically achieve HPS buds with cfls by turning on a hps for only the last few minutes. Just turn off the cfls a little bit before and flip on the HPS until it heats up fully. Then turn it off and let them drift into darkness under the "glow"..... Any responses appreciated....even if you have nothing more to add than an opinion
That last paragraph is that in theory or have you given it a try? If you are right we growers can save a lot of money on electricity bills. That was a great piece of info thank for sharing.
Its all theory right now, and currently I'm doing a seed grow or I'd probably test it out. Most people dont have both lights, but I just so happen to. You might not even need a HPS though, just something that heats up and produces a deep-red light and slowly cools down.... I just was trying to figure out why HPS outperforms CFLs even though they have similiar red/far-red ratios, when all of a sudden a little bulb went on in my head (or should I say off in my growbox). The spectrum of HPS isnt always consant and just so happens to change in the right way at the right time. So did I figure out the million dollar question of why cfls blow?? heres some charts too, one shows the R/FR ratios during sunset and the other shows the spectrum given off by objects of certain temperatures
well it makes sense but there could always be some unknown variable you didn't think about. but if this is true this would be awsome
Yes its true that infrared spectrums increase the conversion of phytochrome to flowering type. BUT the amount of infrared from a bulb burning out is very weak and would only be intense for less than 30 secs to a min. You need at least an hour of far red to speed up flowering. Cfls are not as good b/c they dont penetrate very far. Even with the same lumens as a HID it just wont penetrate more than a foot very well. Also studies show plants grow better with one dominant light source. A cfl grow confuses a plant into not nowing which way to grow, so they get bushy and leafy. Lamp
Its funny how theory can be really spot on, yet still doesn't probably explain observation.. I agree with Lampshade, once you kill power, you've got a relative infinitesimal amount of energy in there to release.. You're right about the spectrum being peaked in a nice place for the phytochrome transition, but it peaks knee high to a grasshopper, and dimishes quickly.. You're trying to work with the actual blackbody nature of the quartz tube which is exactly what HID does not rely on, but that BB energy is always being pumped out when the light is powered up.. Its just dwarfed by the duscharge spectrum.. I know its about ratios, but its more about extended ratios.. If you want to play around, I'd think about incandescents for a duration near lights out.. Their temperatures are right around 3000K, which correlates to a lambda_max of 966nm.. under that light, 730nm is more intense than 670nm since the peak is above both, outside the visible spectrum..
I've been thinking of ways to achieve more Far-Red while still maintaining a high ratio of FR/R. I'm thinking I can use a couple CLEAR incandescents wired in series, and this will drop their voltage causing them to run cooler. Instead of 2700K, like most lights, Id achieve about 1000K. Though this will be with less total FR it will contain a greater ratio. It seems this should work...I've tested it and the bulbs go from being white to dark-red. What do you guys think? Ive attached another chart, and it appears to me when comparing 3000K to 1000K that the ratios of R/FR are very different.
Consider the slope of the blackbody curve at 650-750nm for a given temperature.. If you drop the temperature to 1000k, you're shifting the peak way right to a point where the slope in increasing with lambda, meaning your ratio won't be as high.. Ideally you want a temperature that puts the 650-750nm range right smack-dab on the point of the curve where it changes from concave up to convex up.. Goes back to HS calculus max/min problems if you went through that.. From what I gather from graphs, without actually running the calculus, 2500-3000K is a pretty decent temperature to play with.. Peaks between those will be between 950-1200nm, and their slope maximums (ratio maximums) should lie in the redder part of the visible spectrum or better..
Around 900K is when objects stop emitting visible light and this chart shows a big increase from 660nm to 730nm when around 1000K. At 3000K there is more Far-Red but the spectrum just does not drop fast enough. There is still a bunch of Red, which Id rather avoid... Also there is barely even a slope, and at 600nm your still close to the maximum. Ill try both ways though on some clones, and keep as many variables the same throughout... Its pretty widely accepted with orchid growers to use a combination of fluoro/incandescent when flowering. They think its about the Red (I'm thinking FR), but they seem satisfied with the results? So why does everyone just use CFLs? cause they run cool?
These graphs are arbitrary on the Y-axis (Intensity), so don't worry about the actual slope since its arbitrary as well.. Its the characteristic of the slope that isn't arbitrary.. If you notice the slope characteristic you'll notice that the higher the temperature, the more extreme the slope between 670-730nm.. Any attempt to eliminate red light via temperature dropping when your target area is on the upward slope will eliminate a larger portion of far-red given the same shift.. Only when lambda_max < 730nm will cooling the color have a positive effect on the ratio.. That occurs at an 'actual blackbody' temperature of 3973K.. Confusing because we use correlated color indexes with HID that mimick an actual blackbody of that temperature, as far as the human eye is concerned.. 12pm sun at the equator is ~5800K eqv.. An hour before sunset, that is ~3400K.
KillSpam you really know your shit mang. You guys know they make infrared bulbs right... They also have red in them so ive been trying to find a graph to show how much red vs ir, no luck so far.
Physics background.. Optics was a funny class for me.. I knew too much going in about the aspects related to growing, and ended up getting a few odd looks when I forgot to keep my mouth shut.. Things like solar averages, plant vs human absorbtion, street-light spectrums etc.. All the stuff that a keen PhD would recognize as a tad suspicious.. Sitting in that class I felt like I was sitting in an interrogation room where they were just waiting for me to incriminate myself.. He was one of those profs that taught with alot of discussion regarding everday things, so it was kind of tough not to blurt out answers so that he'd delve deeper, and even tougher to resist asking questions that should have been well out of the realm of the curriculum.. I purposely asked alot of questions about alot of obscure stuff to make it seem like I was just one of those broad interest absorbers of trivia (like I actually am).. Also made it a real point to always be bright-eyed and bushy tailed whenever I was around him after I stuck my foot in my mouth about the average differences of intensity given various weather conditions.. Played it off like I was interested in solar cells since I grew up in the bush without electricity, but I didn't like the look on his face when he was sizing up that excuse.. Even though he wouldn't hassle ppl for any stupidity they portrayed, I had too much on the line to get a reputation as the obvious pot grower..
Shogun I missed that one comparison graph you posted.. Its a nice chart right in the maximum region, but gets pretty deviant from BB nature at shorter wavelengths.. 'If' you 'want' to check the numbers, you can work out the expected intensity value for any wavelength in terms of its fraction of the intensity at maximum with these equations where k is the Boltzman constant.. And yes I realize that nobody needs to think about crap like this to grow bomb weed.. Hmm apparently you need to click inside the image box to open it fully in a window to see the image.. Atleast it doesn't show in the applet window on my pc..
Unless people are planning on heating up a chunk of iron or something then these black body radiation charts are of little practical help not to mention that black bodies are an incredible waste of energy for any sort of lighting purposes including far red light production. It's simply not how it's done in the engineering world with perhaps the exception of using black body sources for calibration purposes. What you want is an actual far red light source such as found here: http://www.roithner-laser.com/LED_HP_multi_chip.html
Im pretty sure HID's yield higher because the light is far more intense than CFL's. The plant isn't spectrum bias.
Plants ARE spectrum biased. The reason that one tends to get a lower yield in using metal halides over HPS in budding is because the blue light in the MH causes a reduction in the amount of auxins (a major plant growth hormone). Auxins are needed for the biosynthesis of ethylene, a female plant growth hormone. I'm not trying to be a jerk or be disrespectful but people really need to understand what they're talking about first before posting information that is bogus. http://www.photobiology.info/Shinkle.html
Of course plants are effected by the spectrum, I can provide countless examples of plants responding positively to red/far red ratios even when the amount of light is lower than the controls... So obviously certain spectrum's cause different reactions in plants.....If thats not bias, I dont know what it is.. But also you must not have read his whole arguement....He said HPS is SOO INTENSE, I mean all you got to do is look at the light and you can easily tell...There is way more lumens per watt with hps and.........ohh...can't forget about the penetration. All that yellow light, its transmitted through the leaves and then the floor appears to be really bright WITH OUR EYES. It must be cause its intense, I think??? ok enough with the sarcasm Its like people think our eyes are perfect and leaves are not very different....And Im NOT not trying to be a jerk, I only ask that you please research a topic before posting something like "its cause its far more intense" Back on topic though........There is also a belief that plants seem to respond to the dusk signal, which is a drop in light levels and a change in R/FR ratios.....And even 1 minute of high FR/R has known to cause effects so I personally think the glowing of the bulbs help with flowering...And of course I know blackbody sources are ineffecient but I am using a 400 watt HPS in 4 SQ FT and have temps of around 70-75..I could definetly deal with the extra heat...I was talking about using incandescents also, not heating up a chunk of iron....but the point of the graphs was that when I connect bulbs in series, until there is barely any visible light being emitted, this relates to the filaments temperature. I would rather have only FR, even if its extremely wasteful..I dont want to mess around with LEDs, atm... Thanks everyone, I've got a much more detailed topic going on IC if anyone is interested
"I would rather have only FR, even if its extremely wasteful..I dont want to mess around with LEDs, atm..." Well, good luck with that. Heck, why use an incandescent? You can just as well use a space heater if you don't care if it's extremely wasteful and don't care about heat. Seriously, speaking as an engineer, you're going to make your life a lot easier just by using far red LEDs. That way you're not playing guessing games with the true spectrum, like you will be doing, and can actually use the scientific method. Further more, with far red LEDs you can look up the data sheet and know what the far red optical output is (most light meters intended for plants will not read far red light since most people are only interested in photosynthetic active radiation so why measure far red, most other light meters will give bogus readings for far red light unless it's calibrated for it) so you can get an idea of the photon flux density needed to initiate a far red reaction in the plants. You're obviously a scientifically inclined person and a fundamental part of science is not playing guessing games. With far red LEDs you have a known quanitity. Either way, I wish you luck in your experiments!
I know some physics, but a lot of this is over my head. However, biology is my subject so I'll approach it from that angle. Plants require many different signaling hormones, one of the more important ones being auxin. So, the light spectrum as well as the light hours will affect these. That is why leaves in the fall turn color and fall off. The daylight hours signal a hormone to tell the tree to start going dormant. What does all this mean? I think that the spectrum only signals the plant to produce the hormone, thus facilitating ripening. Now, is ripening the same as growing and enlarging? No. I have seen plants that have small buds, but are still ripening. The light power, like most of use intuitively know, has much to do with it. So much in fact that the light is the main thing that affects the growth of plants. If you have a bunch of CFL's, it will not stack up to an HPS, watt for watt. Now, if you use your idea and turn the light on for the last few hours, it will not be the same as if it received the intense HPS light all day long. Another way to think about this is someone who uses a MH light. Even though the spectrum is vastly different from an HPS and it doesn't have that spectrum of glow when you turn it off, it still produces massive buds. Some people say they can tell the difference, I usually can't, unless someone tells me. Although, I do use a MH for veg, and HPS for flowering. It's all in the power though. Just my 0.02.