Well that timer i sent is 15 bucks on amazon. 2 for 25. The only drawback is that you have to set it just a minute before you start, because the cycle starts immediately without delay. So if you ant your lights to turn on at 8 in the morning on friday to start a 28 hour cycle. You have start setting that timer at 7:59, and get it set up by 8..... roughly. It could end up a minute or 2 off, but whoop-de-do.
Oh interesting. That beats a clone test for sure, and finding the time to feed and water would be a breeze.I would love to see side by side, but with the same plant, under the 2 different schedules. Top it to grow 2 of the same sized mainlined branches, and partition the tent so one half of plant is on one side, and one half on the other (on an alien planet that revolves in 28 hrs!).
Then, you could really get a good idea on how its working, without other variables such as setting up a whole new grow.
A grower on ICmag did the experiment, but kept the other half in veg, while one singled out large branch was flowered out. (pulled the branch through a slot in foam panel, and gave it 12/12) It worked perfectly, lol. Only grew buds on that branch.
Up until then (few years ago), other than the tinfoil around a node to determine sex trick, I would have considered it some kind of myth or something.
I've since always wanted to see how having multiple light schedules going on different branches at the same time would effect things... You could just keep a plant in veg forever, and only flower out big branches whenever you want... Things like that
I have one of those somewhere in my collection. I didn't think about setting multiple 14-hr programs. Can you set it for different times per each day of the week, rather than recurring each day, or do you just use a countdown setting?
Just to the left of minute. Hit it once and you set your "on" time. After that you hit that button again and you set your "off" time. Once that time is set, you hit the upper left button (forgive me i cant read the picture, but i remember the buttons to press). At that moment that you hit that button, the cycle begins. You cant delay the process, so you need to set it once you are ready to begin. But after that, you never have to touch it again. So my on time was set to 16 hours, and my off time was set to 12 hours.
Pics of plants
Sorry the picture quality sucks. I litterally had to snap a picture real quick before the lights turned off. You might be able to see that the pistils are pretty close to the same in both plants. There are a lot of weird things that happen with a 28 hour day. I wish i could explore more, but the boss (my wife) says this is the last grow for awhile.
