Reduced hour light cycles
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Lucky Luke
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Q for the 24 guys.
Does it take longer for the plant to react to 12/12 after being under light for so long?
Ive just switched from 24 to 12/12 and the stretch didnt seem to happen as fast as i thought it would.
Does it take longer for the plant to react to 12/12 after being under light for so long?
Ive just switched from 24 to 12/12 and the stretch didnt seem to happen as fast as i thought it would.
ttystikk
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When I ran a 24/0 veg it took several weeks for stretch to happen.
Lucky Luke
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Thats some gold info right there. Ive never seen it mentioned before.
berten-ernie420
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This tho
ruwtz
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I'm interested in running 6/2 on my next veg round in a few weeks; won't be introducing it to the current veg crop.
Anecdotally at least I can attest to that "midday slump" kinda thing under full power cobs.
And besides, that extra lights-off period gives me an ideal window for my foliar treatments.
Anecdotally at least I can attest to that "midday slump" kinda thing under full power cobs.
And besides, that extra lights-off period gives me an ideal window for my foliar treatments.
Gquebed
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I can attest to the cob slump too. So this coming round i plan to set up a light cycle where i will rotate shutting down two light bars at a time for 45 mins or so... so the plants get a break from the intensity of direct light above them.
Like:
X0
0X
Then
0X
X0
ttystikk
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Interesting- this amounts to a day with scattered cloud cover.
Gquebed
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Thats exactly what i was thinking.
Get my spray bottle out and i can make it rain too!
berten-ernie420
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My current light schedule
Veg =18/6
Flower = (on/off)
13.5/10.5 for 1st week
13/11 for 2nd week
12.5/11.5 for 3rd week
12/12 for 4th week
11.5/12.5 for 5th week
11/13 for 6th week till harvest.
Running this setup since i started growing with my diy leds. Works like a charm to somewhat mimmick the days shortening. Plants seem to love it.
Veg =18/6
Flower = (on/off)
13.5/10.5 for 1st week
13/11 for 2nd week
12.5/11.5 for 3rd week
12/12 for 4th week
11.5/12.5 for 5th week
11/13 for 6th week till harvest.
Running this setup since i started growing with my diy leds. Works like a charm to somewhat mimmick the days shortening. Plants seem to love it.
thccbdhealth
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So then ehat are yourbplans for flower?
6 Hours on
6 hour off
repeated for a 24hr cycle?
ruwtz
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I aint messing with the dark cycle in bloom, this is only for veg.
SonsOfAvery
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I've just recently build a small veg cabinet, (approx 1ft X 2.5ft X 2ft) and I'm going to be running my colones / seedlings in it with a 5/3 light cycle.
Because I'm quite limited on height I'm hoping that the cycle will allow for a slower growth until I can move them to my larger tent (7ft height) for a final week of veg and then flip them to flower.
Think I might start a grow journal with my next seeds, Strawberry Diesel.
Because I'm quite limited on height I'm hoping that the cycle will allow for a slower growth until I can move them to my larger tent (7ft height) for a final week of veg and then flip them to flower.
Think I might start a grow journal with my next seeds, Strawberry Diesel.
ttystikk
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Slow them down by running less light intensity.
SonsOfAvery
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I'm running quite low intensity anyway, approx 20w/sqft.
so you think I should just stick with a regular light cycle?
Abiqua
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I have been running 20/4 in my veg for about 6 months solid....I only veg S1-2's clones and I have gone back to mostly seed about 80% each run....
I have been finding more than two,so a few, semi autos in my s1 and s2's....under this new light regime....and I rarely would find them before and I am running a couple different lines of bx's....so its kinda cool actually imho, I like finding weird chit.....
I have vegged at 16/8 pretty reliably at times too....Sativa's or NLD's or whatever you want to call them, something that comes from the equator, probably likes this veg time a lil better especially IBL's....softens them up a bit......It is not surprising that weird things happen when you drop from 18/6 to 13/12/11 On...and these type of plants rarely like it straight up and they have a good percentage in modern hybrids again imho, so thats where I lean, but it can be boring and exhausting work at the same time too....gotta love it
I have been finding more than two,so a few, semi autos in my s1 and s2's....under this new light regime....and I rarely would find them before and I am running a couple different lines of bx's....so its kinda cool actually imho, I like finding weird chit.....
I have vegged at 16/8 pretty reliably at times too....Sativa's or NLD's or whatever you want to call them, something that comes from the equator, probably likes this veg time a lil better especially IBL's....softens them up a bit......It is not surprising that weird things happen when you drop from 18/6 to 13/12/11 On...and these type of plants rarely like it straight up and they have a good percentage in modern hybrids again imho, so thats where I lean, but it can be boring and exhausting work at the same time too....gotta love it
ttystikk
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Shorter light cycles won't slow them down unless you're running fewer hours. You could run 3 on and 5 off for a total of 9 hours of light a day and that would slow them down without risking them blooming.