If we had a power outage, how long would flowering plants last?

Mateuszpl

Mateuszpl

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I have been wondering, if my power goes out,will my plants die? i do have power outages. Also, what would you recommend doing? what would be your plan? How about vegging plants.
( I have been thinking about buying generators.. But this will have to be in the future.)
 
Mateuszpl said:
I have been wondering, if my power goes out,will my plants die? i do have power outages. Also, what would you recommend doing? what would be your plan? How about vegging plants.
( I have been thinking about buying generators.. But this will have to be in the future.)
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This is a good question. I rely heavily on dehumidifier and aircon to keep my environment good.
 
Plants can survive surprisingly long in the dark very hardy.
The issue I would worry about is stress and hermaphrodites. If u could run a cfl light on a generator, imagine u could run a fan n dehumidifier no problem also, there wouldn't be much heat but enough light to keep the plants active and in vegging or flowering, that is if worse came to worse until the power came back on.
 
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Yeah, you might not be able to feasibly operate your entire HID system plus cooling and dehumidification on a generator, but in an emergency- for a day or two - you could at least run a small light 12 hours on each day to keep them on their light cycle.
 
Scratch that, anything else that could power my HID and whole room? Shit if possible, i want even my co2 running lol
 
Short of a large generator or tens of thousands of dollars worth of solar panels and electrical storage, there's really not much you can do produce electricity on that scale.
 
thumper60 said:
gen+ fluoros hps-mh do not like to run on gens,unless u got a big one I mean 10000 an up
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I actually ruint a really nice digital power surge protector strip/timer running a small 2k gen. I was running a couple of CFLs and a 50", A very nice computer, wifi station and a few other small lights around. Out of power for like 3-4 days 4 years ago.

Saved the computer, TV and everything else so it served it's purpose well. You could hear the gen every now and then stutter and then pick back up the RPMs.

Since, I bought an Uninterruptible power supply to clean up the high and lows the generator created. Works like a charm.
 
Just buy a generator like I guy they only cost like $450 and can run my house and any of my grow stuff if you got a ton of lights you only need to run one of them and your fans and other stuff
 
ryan1918 said:
Just buy a generator like I guy they only cost like $450 and can run my house and any of my grow stuff if you got a ton of lights you only need to run one of them and your fans and other stuff
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I find it hard to believe you run a whole house on a $450 dollar gen. Unless you live in a very small house. A normal house has 200 amps. That is "potentially" 40,000 plus watts. That would take a big ass gen to provide that kind of sure electric current. And it would suck down some serious fuel. Probably deisel for a gen that size.

Granted. Let's say you turn off the stuff you don't need. Only run the fridge. And the light and tv for whatever room you are in. You won't be able to run a water heater and central system tho. You might get it down to only needing say 5k watts. You might be able to get a 5k gen from say harbor freight for $450. I don't know. And you have to calculate the watts in your grow.

Also consider fuel for your gen. In my tiny little 2k gen, it uses about a gallon of fuel a day. Assuming maybe 16 hours of run time. I turn it off when I sleep. I do not run my fridge or anything other than a tv, wifi, cell phone charger and maybe a few lights. I have a wood stove for heat if the power is out in the winter. I can open windows and use a small fan in the summer.

Anyway. I seriously doubt a $450 generator will run a whole house including a grow. But, it might support your grow, depending on how large it is and run a few lights and a tv.
 
GrowUrOwnDank said:
I find it hard to believe you run a whole house on a $450 dollar gen. Unless you live in a very small house. A normal house has 200 amps. That is "potentially" 40,000 plus watts. That would take a big ass gen to provide that kind of sure electric current. And it would suck down some serious fuel. Probably deisel for a gen that size.

Granted. Let's say you turn off the stuff you don't need. Only run the fridge. And the light and tv for whatever room you are in. You won't be able to run a water heater and central system tho. You might get it down to only needing say 5k watts. You might be able to get a 5k gen from say harbor freight for $450. I don't know. And you have to calculate the watts in your grow.

Also consider fuel for your gen. In my tiny little 2k gen, it uses about a gallon of fuel a day. Assuming maybe 16 hours of run time. I turn it off when I sleep. I do not run my fridge or anything other than a tv, wifi, cell phone charger and maybe a few lights. I have a wood stove for heat if the power is out in the winter. I can open windows and use a small fan in the summer.

Anyway. I seriously doubt a $450 generator will run a whole house including a grow. But, it might support your grow, depending on how large it is and run a few lights and a tv.
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what house is running 40k watts(my entire house and grow room and everything running it in probably don't use more then 10-15k when I have everything in my house running) ??? Lmao do you even know how much that is, most warehouses probably don't even use that much, I plug my generator into one of the plugs, turn off my fuse box and it powers up everything I want it to I didn't say I turned everything in my house on, but it runs all my fridge, grow lights, fans, tvs, furnace, lights, I just don't over do it, because it's only a 5500 max, and my other one I let my guy next to me burrow my other one and he runs his house on my other one but overall works great and we have several power outages a year due the ice and cold weather and just because consumers sucks around here.. The point of it is though, you don't need to run all your lights and stuff, just the main stuff you need to like cooling/heating or a few lights, the point is to keep it going not run everything, just so nothing messes up on you.
 
Actually, good timing on this question. I just went through a 21 hour power outage Thursday/Friday, and it started 10 minutes before the lights were to come on. In total they were in the dark for 36 hours instead of 12. That's the worst we've had in our area, big ice storm that took down our feeds. My area's quite good for power, rare hits (3 in almost 4 years) and most are typically 5-15 minutes. I cover them off with a 3000va UPS with one fan and T5's connected in case it goes when the lights are on. If you're in an area where you can expect long outages, a generator is the way to go.

Here's a pic of the girls about an hour after the lights came on, they'd been in the dark for 36 hours and it was like nothing had happened. Of course the flowering girls could come back to bite my ass with nanners but they're at 6 weeks so not too concerned.
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GroErr said:
Actually, good timing on this question. I just went through a 21 hour power outage Thursday/Friday, and it started 10 minutes before the lights were to come on. In total they were in the dark for 36 hours instead of 12. That's the worst we've had in our area, big ice storm that took down our feeds. My area's quite good for power, rare hits (3 in almost 4 years) and most are typically 5-15 minutes. I cover them off with a 3000va UPS with one fan and T5's connected in case it goes when the lights are on. If you're in an area where you can expect long outages, a generator is the way to go.

Here's a pic of the girls about an hour after the lights came on, they'd been in the dark for 36 hours and it was like nothing had happened. Of course the flowering girls could come back to bite my ass with nanners but they're at 6 weeks so not too concerned.
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You should of just put a flash light or a battery operated light in there so there was not complete darkness, even a 100 watt battery bulb will work just enough to provide a little light where it don't hurt them.
 
GroErr said:
Actually, good timing on this question. I just went through a 21 hour power outage Thursday/Friday, and it started 10 minutes before the lights were to come on. In total they were in the dark for 36 hours instead of 12. That's the worst we've had in our area, big ice storm that took down our feeds. My area's quite good for power, rare hits (3 in almost 4 years) and most are typically 5-15 minutes. I cover them off with a 3000va UPS with one fan and T5's connected in case it goes when the lights are on. If you're in an area where you can expect long outages, a generator is the way to go.

Here's a pic of the girls about an hour after the lights came on, they'd been in the dark for 36 hours and it was like nothing had happened. Of course the flowering girls could come back to bite my ass with nanners but they're at 6 weeks so not too concerned.
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A very similar thing happened to me at about the same time (wk 6'ish). Lost power for a day and the girls were in darkness for 36hrs. They didn't seem to mind.

Still a good question Mateus, that has not been answered yet :bigjoint:
 
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