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🌙Dark Period, Calvin Cycle, and Optimal Timing, with Nik from Rooted Leaf | Otter.ai

🌙Dark Period, Calvin Cycle, and Optimal Timing, with Nik from Rooted Leaf

Jordan River57min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings, growers of the world. Jordan River here back with more growcast After Dark. Today we continue our series with Nick from rooted leaf. We take a little bit of a different approach, though. Today we're covering the dark cycle. That's right. We're doing a deep dive into light independent cycles. What those plants do when the lights are off. I know you're gonna love today's awesome episode. But before that, shout out to AC infinity, baby. AC infinity.com, code growcast One five to get your savings and keep the lights on. Here at growcast, we appreciate your support, and we love AC infinity. They make the best grow tents around extra thick poles. They've got nice, durable, thick siding now they have the new side ports. People have been asking for those in AC infinity list. And plus, they've got everything else you need to grow. They've got lights and pots and fans and their oscillating fans, the cloud Ray system. Check out their humidifiers. The cloud Forge. How nice is your humidifier? Maybe it's time to replace that. The cloud rays are my favorite oscillators on the market. And, of course, their cloud Line series. What they got it all started with all those years ago when we were partners with AC infinity, all they made were those inline fans, and they're the best in the game. So shout out to the entire AC infinity suite. They've got everything you need to get growing from fans to tents delights, code, growcast one five works at AC infinity.com. You support us, and you're getting some badass, durable grow gear while you're doing it. So thank you to all you listeners using code growcast, one, five, and thank you to AC infinity. All right, let's get into it with Nick Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello podcast listeners who are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in to the show again today. Before we get started, I always urge you check out everything we're doing at growcast podcast.com There you'll find the seeds, the membership, upcoming events and classes. We do it all for you folks help us out in our mission of overgrow. Tell someone about growcast or turn someone on to growing. That's the best thing that you can do to help us on our mission. I appreciate you being here, and as always, big thank you to the members. All right, continuing our nutrient deep dive series, this time taking a little bit of a turn. Very exciting episode today that we have planned for you on the dark cycle, light independent cycles. We're going to be talking about optimal feeding timing, optimal foliar timing. It's going to be a really good grow cast after dark, and we have none other than Nick from rooted leaf with us as the guest. What's up? Nick, thank you for being

Speaker 1

02:30

here. Hey Jordan, good to see you, or not see you, but good to be here, good to hear you, right? That's right. Nick,

Jordan River

02:37

of course, running things over@rootedleaf.com my favorite nutritional lineup code, grow cast, saving you 20% or more over there. So go and check it out. Everybody. Rootedleaf.com You've been killing it. Nick, love the Grow cast TV appearances you've been doing as well for the members and this nutrient deep dive series, I have to say, Nick, it's one of the best received series we've ever done, right up there with like breeder features and team grow cast episodes people like these man, so thank you.

Speaker 1

03:04

You're welcome, and I'm glad that your audience is, well, receiving to it. You know, I've interacted with a lot of people, both on Discord and people who send us messages on Instagram. So it's nice to hear positive feedback. It's nice that people take away useful information. That's really what it's about for me, and that's the most important thing, is that you can learn something by listening to these episodes that you can then, you know, take with you into your garden, apply to your plants, and see things improve overall. So that's really, really nice. I appreciate the support of the community. I

Jordan River

03:32

totally agree. Man, I totally agree. And the community loves you, and they're helping people out. So so I want to continue this today, but we're moving away from, like, specific nutrients and specific minerals, and getting into some other areas of still relating to nutrition and, of course, how plants grow. But we're getting into some different facets of, you know, plant botany, essentially. So today we're talking about the dark cycle. We're talking about not just light dependent reactions, but light independent reactions. So Nick, where do you want to start? Do you want to give us a little bit of, uh, of, uh, recap on photosynthesis and light dependent processes before we move on to the light independent ones? Yeah,

Speaker 1

04:11

yeah. And I think a good way to frame it is to kind of examine, like the the majority of the content we've been pushing out so far about the individual nutrients and how they're metabolized revolves primarily around energy metabolism and thermodynamics. I know you've probably heard me talk about that quite a bit. So when we do today's episode, you know, we'll be looking maybe at like the general schematics, you could say, the general kind of overview of how energies, in their various formats, flow through plants, and obviously where it starts is with the energy of the light, the sunlight. You know it is energy. Photons are energy, and plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to capture that energy and then ultimately to convert it into chemical energy. So we go from light energy to chemical energy through this process of what are referred to as the. Light dependent reactions. The light independent reactions are a little bit different in the sense that they're not they're not directly driven by light itself, but rather they depend on the chemical energy that's created when plants actually capture and convert the energy of the light. So that's the real major distinction between the two of them, that the light dependent reactions are driven by Photon energy, by light energy through the electron transport chain, and then ultimately, where that light energy gets accumulated is in the form of ATP and NADPH. These are two very important molecules. They're kind of like the central currencies, if you will, for all metabolic functions, right,

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