bravedave
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Funny. Did you get as much shit as I did here.Just realized it says preflower. Sorry man. lol. I did post flower.
Complete Dark for 5 days/pre-flower
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Red1966
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Even in the shade, a plant will still get enough light that it will "think" it's still daytime. Inosolation (diffused sunlight) is 10-20% of the light normally falling outside.
bravedave
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Damn you naysayers!!!
No bold exclamations here though. I need a few comparison grows. The results of the 3 days dark seems to look pretty good so far and at the very least it was not harmful and removed any fear of going 5 days sometime in the future. 2 weeks into flower and there is no mistaken it...click on the pic above .. that is really a few hours less than 14 days and now another watering and 2 days later its looking even better. However, there is not complete joy in WooHooville ...as they just told me the the lack of music in their room was unacceptable and that they considered those times I sang to them also in the "lack of music" category. Pretty sure they would regress to veg if I hauled in the banjo.harris hawk
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Any more than 24 -48 hours is use less considering darkness
reddan1981
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light manipulation is one form of stressor that can be used to induce a response from our plants, scratching the stem being another of many others
bravedave
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Tonight I turned to Peter Tosh for some response inducement. Heres a couple familiar angles on day 17:
bravedave
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A certain admin graciously re-opened this thread so as I might give it the correct closure...as I kind of did that on another thread and as that thread was kind of the continuation of this one...I will just point you to it...
https://www.rollitup.org/t/69-hours-of-darkness-to-start-flower.840079/page-7#post-10932844
Be good.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/69-hours-of-darkness-to-start-flower.840079/page-7#post-10932844
Be good.
bravedave
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About to finish a somewhat accidental (and somewhat questionable)side by side with the following conditions:
1. 8 plants grown under 2-bulb T5 in clone cabinet. 24 hour light.
2. 9/30. 6 plants were removed from clone cabinet and put under a 600w MH. 20/4 lighting. 2 plants left in cloning cabinet still under 24 hour lighting to be one-time mothers. Feeding/watering the same in all.
3. 11/8. Turned off grow room lights. Clone cabinet remained lit for the 2 will-be mothers. Difference between 6 in grow and 2 in clone seemed negligible at this point.
4. 11/10. Light turned on after 56 hours dark. Start of 12/12 lighting. Clone cabinet still at 24.
5. 11/16. 6 clones taken from both mothers. I beautiful mother plant culled, the other dropped into 12/12 grow room with the 6 who have a 6 day head start.
6. 12/2. 3 weeks of flower for the 6. MUCH more developed than the plant who will reach 3 weeks on Sunday. I will provide comparison pics then. Here is a representative one of the 6 at 3 weeks:
1. 8 plants grown under 2-bulb T5 in clone cabinet. 24 hour light.
2. 9/30. 6 plants were removed from clone cabinet and put under a 600w MH. 20/4 lighting. 2 plants left in cloning cabinet still under 24 hour lighting to be one-time mothers. Feeding/watering the same in all.
3. 11/8. Turned off grow room lights. Clone cabinet remained lit for the 2 will-be mothers. Difference between 6 in grow and 2 in clone seemed negligible at this point.
4. 11/10. Light turned on after 56 hours dark. Start of 12/12 lighting. Clone cabinet still at 24.
5. 11/16. 6 clones taken from both mothers. I beautiful mother plant culled, the other dropped into 12/12 grow room with the 6 who have a 6 day head start.
6. 12/2. 3 weeks of flower for the 6. MUCH more developed than the plant who will reach 3 weeks on Sunday. I will provide comparison pics then. Here is a representative one of the 6 at 3 weeks:
UncleBuck
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i thought with an avatar like that, no way this guy wants dark.
bravedave
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The control group (plant) is a bit imperfect but ...if one isolates things at the point of flower start when all "looked" similarly happy and healthy there certainly seems to be evidence of "something" causing a difference in maturation speed.sounds interesting.
Yes my immediate thoughts are take clones. Do this with 1 group and put the others under 12/12, compare your results with your genetics
bravedave
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First grow had me do a 3 day dark and things turned out just fine. I am going to test it more precisely next summer. Here, it was called accidental because I had not planned on keeping that mother plant going.Yes my immediate thoughts are take clones. Do this with 1 group and put the others under 12/12, compare your results with your genetics
LOL take the lessons anyway you can get em eh?
