chained
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Thanks Dr, I figured it would be OK as, in nature, they don't all suddenly suffer on the odd cloudy days. It's good to get confirmation. I'd heard that about 24 to 48 hours darkness pre-harvest, too, while searching around here for power-out related threads, interesting...You did the right thing bro ... the girks will just assume those were cloudy days. A couple of days arent too bad to cause any noticeable problems. Actually, many guys turn the lights off for 48 h before harvest to increase resun oroduction towards the end, and thats 48h of total darkness! A couple hours shaved off of the total light on time is really nothing
Now as far as how long of lights off is too bad that youd need to harvest, Ive never had such a problem. I guess if that was to happen to me, the lack on dissolved oxygen would by my number one fear .... not the lights being off (no photosynthesis for a little vs no oxygen to breath for a little too)
Check out my current TriStrain grow:
https://www.rollitup.org/index.php?threads/883569/
I wondered if it was possible to knock the plant out of flower, mess up its gender or something if you lost power for six to 48 hours. If there was a point of no return, whereby you may as well cut it down/it will no longer advance in the direction you want.
Also, when the power went off I feed the plants by watering can, as per schedule, because they missed the scheduled breakfast/first feeding and I wasn't sure how long the lights would be off... Is that the right thing to do, even though they're in the dark?