24/48 hour darknes
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Most times you get unnecessary stretching... but it can also be very useful if you have one or more short plants with very tight nodes as it will allow the plant to really open up the spacing in between those tight nodes. Now, I don't do that all the time but I did that in my last grow cycle because I had this one plant, (all were clones from the same mother), that was only 10 inches tall and all the others were 18 - 20 inches tall, so I gave that one plant 72 hours of darkness at the flip, and when I pulled her from the darkness after 72 hours, she was a inch or two taller than all the others that went straight into a 12/12 flowering schedule!
Not the pictures, but it shows what I mean...
Before 72 hours of darkness at the flip, (plant on the right)
After 72 hours of darkness at the flip, (plant on the right)
Not the pictures, but it shows what I mean...
Before 72 hours of darkness at the flip, (plant on the right)
After 72 hours of darkness at the flip, (plant on the right)
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Nutty sKunK
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That’s really interesting! Neat trick to even the canopy.