I do the same, my lighting schedule is controlled by an app on my phone where I reduce time from 16 to 14.5 for a few weeks in veg then I get down to 11 hours by end of flower. I keep knocking off time and use the leaf droop as my metric. At intervals i ramp light intensity
it works. ive been running a 16 hour veg for a while now. no real change in plant behavior, just shaves a little off the power bill
I have had some strains that would try to flower at 15.5 so I wouldn't go to 14.5 in veg.
I transition into flower after 50 days or so so its a quasi veg/flower period. I noticed my clones go quickly into flower because of their sexual maturity, seeds longer and yeah it varies strain by strain. It makes sense to not go direct to flower like 18 to 12, it short changes the potential energy the plant could receive on the slide down. Ime ramping down from either 18, 17, 16, 15, 14 within a week and then triggering flower by 13.5 or 14 hours for the first three-four weeks of flower gives the plant an extra 38 hours or 3.2 extra days of production that you didn't have before. Plants finish in the same amount of time, you just got to make sure how your strain react and don't mix clones with seeds. Also 13 hrs, 12.5 during weeks 5,6,7,8 will give you an extra 5 days of production. You with me on this?
I have done that, some strains are just tougher than others. The mimosa likes to grow straight up, not outward at all like for example Romulan likes to go outward by nature. Combine the vertical nature and tough stems it makes it difficult to do what I do with them. Upside is she makes massive logs and those stems are handy then for holding up the weight.
My rooms run on a flip and easing into flower is something that I am not setup for. It could be done but it's not something I plan to do.
thats crazy af... cant collect too much free water smh
blew my mind when I moved here. I think they were the only state that prohibited rain water collection. Now they let you collect up to 110 gallons. Really it's kinda silly if you ask me. I understand they want water to percolate down into the aquifers but really a lot of that water ends up in other states like oklahoma where they draw it from wells. Colorado is all about their water though. Back when the feds said that using water from the pueblo reservoir for growing weed was a federal issue and no bueno, Colorado stood up to them and said even if the Army Corps of Engineers built the dam the water is still colorado's resource. For about a month people were hauling large tanks of water from artisian wells to all the grow facilities.
Yeah it's never a simple one two three. Humans, we make things black and white, simpler like that and for good reason.
well now that i think about it some more it does make a lil more sense if everyone started collecting unlimited amounts none is left to power the natural eco systems and the results would be awful
I dunno about that. Frankly we are drawing down the aquifers faster than nature can refill them regardless of a little rain water collection. I think it's just silly to say that collecting the water that hits roofs would be more than a drop in the bucket, especially since most will just water their gardens and lawns with it anyway. It seems like a law to force people to buy water.
Yeah that's how I messed my neck up, reaching over and trying to pull leaves off in the middle of my tent. FFFFFFF
I open the tents from time to time to look at my plants with lights off with a flash light for like 1 min and it don't seem to do anything. 1 min isn't gonna hurt is it?
Once in bud ok a tiny bit. Use a green led instead.. , but when on the switch from 18 to 12, bad idea.
yea thats probably more like it... law makers typically give little fucks about the environment and give all the fucks about money... Nestle and the bottled water companies are the ones makin the biggest environmental impacts on the watershed and water cycle. ive boycotted bottled water for myself i refuse to use it unless necessary which it has only been once or twice since i started. i also wont drink my tap water after filling a pool last summer and seein how brown n dingy it was in a large amount. work has a few filtered water coolers in the break room and i have a couple of the big ass fiji bottles that i just take to work and fill up and i also fill up my stainless thermal tumbler that keeps me supplied with free fresh drinking water lol... i feel you on cuttin the grass i haaaaaaate it already did it once for this season wish i stayed at my apt everytime i cut it lol
I wouldn't do it except right at lights on or out or in later flowering. In early flower you really are on your best lighting schedule behavior.
I use green LED headlamps in my rooms ALL the time and never had a problem. They are a must have for me and I always have a backup for when I drop one and it dies lol.
