1 week into flowering left light on for 16 hours!!!?

[BxHaZe87]

i run lights from 12-12. my timer prongs where all messed up and i caught the problem at 4 am. should i just turn the lights on @ 4 pm and give them 8 hours of light until 12 pm then keep on normal schedule? any help would be appreciated.

 

[zander19]

em just keep it at 12 12 i think will just start again

 

[BxHaZe87]

ok so i should just let them sleep for 8 hours tonight? i hope i dont get hermies from this -_- mechanical timers are so unreliable..

 

[BxHaZe87]

im just hoping its early enough that it wont effect em. i have 1 male and looks to be 4 females they havnt showed sex yet.

 

[polo the don]

I have done the same exact thing. I grow perpetual so when it happened I had 4 different stages of flower going on. All of the plants that were in there at the time of the mishap have all since been harvested and did not have any nanners or seeds. I hope you have the same outcome. I am a full time grower and that's all I do so I now don't use any timers. I turn all the lights on myself.

Good luck
Polo

 

[polo the don]

By the way,I did not adjust my light schedule to compensate for the extra hours of light I just went on with my normal routine like it never happened except I watched really close for nanners. Things worked out fine for me. I hope it works out fine for you

 

[puddy99]

Get yourself a decent timer or relay! Only a matter of time with the conventional type of timer you will find everywhere. They have contacts that burn out quickly.

 

[churchhaze]

Power going out for a few hours also messes up mechanical timers since they stop completely.

The digital timers use a battery to keep the time in case the power goes out.

 

[BxHaZe87]

thx everyone for replies. i am looking into gettting a digital timer now. also i went on with the same light schedule hope i get no nanners.

 

[blackrecluse]

I got loads of hermies this last run. Showed after 6th week. No seeds harvested around the 11th. I didn't let any full on hermies stay though. But a couple nanners are pretty common. And so is leaving the light on. Shit happens. Dont panic.

 

[Drrfeeelgood]

You will be fine so early in flowering.. I've done this before.. I think most of us have at 1 time or another.. The only bad thing that will come of this is you might have to add another week or two of flowering

 

[Red1966]

i run lights from 12-12. my timer prongs where all messed up and i caught the problem at 4 am. should i just turn the lights on @ 4 pm and give them 8 hours of light until 12 pm then keep on normal schedule? any help would be appreciated.

It's not the time that the lights are left on, it's the time that they're in darkness. If you follow the extended "day" with 12 hours of darkness, there should be no effect.

 

[Red1966]

You will be fine so early in flowering.. I've done this before.. I think most of us have at 1 time or another.. The only bad thing that will come of this is you might have to add another week or two of flowering

I had a couple of timers fail, but they always failed to turn on, not turn off. They were all mechanical timers. So far, none of the electronic ones have failed, but they're made by the same manufacturer, so I don't have a lot of confidence in them. I believe you can use a relay to reduce the current going through the timers, but those things are expensive.