Artificial moon

[moselyt]

I have been growing indoors for a few years and have always had a pitch black night cycles. I have always been told that it is best to have a completely dark room during night hours but obviously it is not perfectly dark outside and can even be fairly bright with a full moon. I am wondering if the moonlight is beneficial and have been considering making an artificial moon out of led lights. I an wondering if anyone has tried to simulate the moon and seen any results. Also I am wondering if the cycles of the moon would make a difference such that I would have to slowly dim the fake moon on and off over the course of the moons cycles?

 

[cowboylogic]

I have never used a moon cycle while growing. But I do and must use one in my reef aquarium. Without the moon cycle most if not all life on the reef would suffer. Some would never reproduce w/o it. And the moon cycle does follow natures way, Brightness works its way up then back down over 16 days...

 

[IAm5toned]

very interesting, definitely worthy of experimentation!
id be scared to try it tho unless i was using pure landrace genetics... i dont know how the hybrids might react, they tend to have alot of hermie genes!

 

[kether noir]

I have been growing indoors for a few years and have always had a pitch black night cycles. I have always been told that it is best to have a completely dark room during night hours but obviously it is not perfectly dark outside and can even be fairly bright with a full moon. I am wondering if the moonlight is beneficial and have been considering making an artificial moon out of led lights. I an wondering if anyone has tried to simulate the moon and seen any results. Also I am wondering if the cycles of the moon would make a difference such that I would have to slowly dim the fake moon on and off over the course of the moons cycles?

93

yes. but the sun is far more intense then any hid lighting. keep that in mind. aside from that, i have not heard of anyone doing that. i have tried using a black light at night, did help with resin production. but now that i use uvb cfls, i never looked back

93 93/93

 

[DOPEYSstoned]

Thats sounds like quite and intriging idea. Deffinatly worth a shot, let us know how it goes if you do it!

 

[budhead500]

Interesting... anybody know the answer? Would it REALLY make a difference?

 

[Total Head]

i'm surprised all the "light leaks cause hermies" nazis haven't ripped this thread a new one yet. i support any experimentation designed to replicate nature indoors, but like some of the other posters i'm too chicken shit to try this one out for myself. good luck. keep us posted if you go for it.

 

[CaptainCAVEMAN]

Like the coyboy said, if you go to a salt water fish specialty store/site you will find tiny expensive l.e.d. 'moonlights'. Let us know how it goes!