anyone got a light

[needthacheeba]

I'm wondering if I can go from 24/0 then go 20/4 for a while then go back to 24/0? I have heard that giving them dark periods will give them rest.. (lights on, above the soil grows...lights off below the soil grows) just something I've heard. Any help would be awesome. I have a lot of beauties that have nothing wrong with them and I'd like to keep it like that lol.

 

[budman111]

I'm wondering if I can go from 24/0 then go 20/4 for a while then go back to 24/0?

Why? is it natural?

 

[Commander Strax]

yes you can go down to 18/6 if you want. It is your world, you are in control.

you will not get a strait answer about 24\0 being better or worse. It is an opinion thing, like defoliation

 

[Indoor Sun King]

yes you can go down to 18/6 if you want. It is your world, you are in control.

you will not get a strait answer about 24\0 being better or worse. It is an opinion thing, like defoliation

yup...24/0, defoliation, flushing, germination, water, nutes, soil, medium and countless other subjects that never can be agreed upon.

I believe the only thing we all can agree upon, is that there is nothing in the pot growing world that we all can agree upon

 

[tokingtiger]

I'm wondering if I can go from 24/0 then go 20/4 for a while then go back to 24/0? I have heard that giving them dark periods will give them rest.. (lights on, above the soil grows...lights off below the soil grows) just something I've heard. Any help would be awesome. I have a lot of beauties that have nothing wrong with them and I'd like to keep it like that lol.

I tried the 24/7 and use the 20/4 now.. do not see any difference except the electric bill.

 

[spek9]

I believe the only thing we all can agree upon, is that there is nothing in the pot growing world that we all can agree upon

Other than the only other thing we can agree on... we all love growing it

-spek

 

[Flagg420]

I tried the 24/7 and use the 20/4 now.. do not see any difference except the electric bill.

^
This.

veg room has 4 125w CFLs, 250MH, and and sometimes a 400MH. *sigh* Need me a good 24" T5HO light for my clones....

 

[Indoor Sun King]

Other than the only other thing we can agree on... we all love growing it

-spek

sorry but I can't agree....I grow out of necessity....having to grow it makes me angry because pot should be as accessible as cigarettes or beer.

it's BS what we have to do to grow a bit of weed and having to deal with all the associated risks of growing

One day MJ will be as legal as booze and tobacco....then I will say "I love growing weed"

 

[kryptoniteglo]

I run my lights 24/0 for veg. You can run 18/6 or 20/4 -- just keep it consistent, don't switch around.

 

[AirAnt]

I have the ability to communicate telepathically with plant life and I can tell you with all certainly that plants prefer a dark period during their daily light cycles. There is no question. To argue would be not to argue with me, but the plant, and if you argue with plants then you need more help than I can provide in a forum post.

 

[Indoor Sun King]

I have the ability to communicate telepathically with plant life and I can tell you with all certainly that plants prefer a dark period during their daily light cycles. There is no question. To argue would be not to argue with me, but the plant, and if you argue with plants then you need more help than I can provide in a forum post.

so when you communicate telepathically with your plants, do they ask why they exist, what is the meaning of life for them?

what do you tell them?......you are here alive today in my home for the sole purpose of growing buds so I can hang you until the moisture vacates your life and then I'll grind you up and ignite you into a combustion then inhale your fumes with much pleasure

I would think this could be a stress factor for your gals

 

[AirAnt]

so when you communicate telepathically with your plants, do they ask why they exist, what is the meaning of life for them?

what do you tell them?......you are here alive today in my home for the sole purpose of growing buds so I can hang you until the moisture vacates your life and then I'll grind you up and ignite you into a combustion then inhale your fumes with much pleasure

I would think this could be a stress factor for your gals

The river only flows one way, so to speak. They can't really hear me, but they do like singing.

Although, if I wanted to instill a certain sense of foreboding in my crop, I'm sure they'd understand with all the compassionate generosity that nature has to extend that with the completion of their life-cycle they fulfill a higher, more ordered purpose than they otherwise would if left to the wild, and feel gratefulness.

For it is not a plant's motive to ask why. It doesn't need to, that's why plants are fantastic. Like autonomous programs carried out individually on a cellular level, completely the opposite of animal life in almost every way.

Maybe plants are telepathic with each other though. You ever notice how they like seem to be aware of the proximity to other plants and try to space themselves out accordingly? Plants have esp, clearly.

Steven King starred in one of his movies, playing a role where he turned into a plant. Coincidence?

 

[GrowerGoneWild]

There is nothing natural about artificial light.

On planet earth there are plenty of places with nearly 24-0 daylight. Mebby 22-2.. You get my point. Leafy annuals do just fine with the long days. Lettuce grows fine, brocolli.. peas.. etc..

Ruderalis, a very closely related to indica and sativa.. Grows just fine with long days.

24-0 works good for me, ultimately I want no triggering of flowering. I will continue to use it until a problem presents itself like trying to save money on electric, heat issues, etc.

 

[Indoor Sun King]

On planet earth there are plenty of places with nearly 24-0 daylight. Mebby 22-2..

you have to go northern Alaska to get 24/0...I don't think pot ever grew up there naturally, and I highly doubt it's an ideal environment.....just because you can doesn't mean you should

 

[needthacheeba]

I'll stay on 24/0 until I flower which will be soon. Thanks everyone for the help.

 

[needthacheeba]

Why? is it natural?

Just wondering if it's been tried

 

[AirAnt]

There is nothing natural about artificial light.

On planet earth there are plenty of places with nearly 24-0 daylight. Mebby 22-2.. You get my point. Leafy annuals do just fine with the long days. Lettuce grows fine, brocolli.. peas.. etc..

Ruderalis, a very closely related to indica and sativa.. Grows just fine with long days.

24-0 works good for me, ultimately I want no triggering of flowering. I will continue to use it until a problem presents itself like trying to save money on electric, heat issues, etc.

I was in Alaska for a summer, beautiful place. There's still a difference between direct sunlight and shade, or there being enough residual light to create brightness. When you are growing plants with artificial light, they are in direct light 100% of the time which isn't how the sun works even in polar light cycle environments.

but hey, they're your greens, do what you feel.

 

[Bricksquad2625]

I can tell you from experience, once you start to give your plants a dark period, you shouldn't go back. About an hour prior to my light going off, I'm on 18/6, the plants start to droop and almost look tired, then after their 6 hour nap, they perk back up and are ready for another 18. I'm thinking that you would stress them out if you kept fuckin with them like that, now if you were gradually working your way to 12/12, prob not an issue

 

[GrowerGoneWild]

Bit off topic..

Natural or not, 24/0 prevents flowering (for cannabis) and the plant still grows fine in a veg state. And I've observed tundra grasses and plants grow just fine at the arctic circle in true 24-0. If the mechanics for photosynthesis apply for all plants, then dark cycle reactions can still take place without there being dark.

The point is moot, the OP, has chosen 24-0. And even in my world 24-0 stops flowering, even with cuttings that have flowering triggered and still builds leaf and roots just fine. But im trying to keep an open mind, but other timings have not proven to be better.

 

[abe supercro]

The river only flows one way, so to speak. They can't really hear me, but they do like singing.

Although, if I wanted to instill a certain sense of foreboding in my crop, I'm sure they'd understand with all the compassionate generosity that nature has to extend that with the completion of their life-cycle they fulfill a higher, more ordered purpose than they otherwise would if left to the wild, and feel gratefulness.

For it is not a plant's motive to ask why. It doesn't need to, that's why plants are fantastic. Like autonomous programs carried out individually on a cellular level, completely the opposite of animal life in almost every way.

Maybe plants are telepathic with each other though. You ever notice how they like seem to be aware of the proximity to other plants and try to space themselves out accordingly? Plants have esp, clearly.

Steven King starred in one of his movies, playing a role where he turned into a plant. Coincidence?

AA- I've heard that certain humanoids can fantasize so hard about being an intellectual, that they claim to contact their penis telepathically and master-bait remotely. Wow AA