a tip

when your lights are off your plant stretches very fast looking for light, so the longer it is off the higher it will grow, i use 18/24 and 24/24 lighting alternating daily with my lights as close to the plants as possible without burning, so my plants are small healthy and stocky, when i need a bit of stretch i turn the lights off for 12 hours.
honestly when you walk in 12 hours later you will be amazed at the amount of grown height in that time.
but remember lights off too long can cause high humidity and yellowing !!!

i read somewhere that frequent changes to a plants light cycle could induce a hermie

your idea is great but is there a catch? have you done this a lot with no probs?

cheers

OxyGrow said:

i read somewhere that frequent changes to a plants light cycle could induce a hermie

your idea is great but is there a catch? have you done this a lot with no probs?

cheers

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i got told the same dude you either have 18+ light and stick to it and dont arse with it till flowering when you go to 12/12 then for the last 2 weeks 14/10

Well my general outlook on it is that during the veging stage the plant isn't going to change its sex no matter what you do to it really, except you know like mixing in male or half and half male and female hormones to make it male or hermie lol...
But during flowering you have to keep a strict 12/12 on them and be sure there are NO light leaks to inside where your plants are, NONE.
Because I believe that the plants don't really start producing much of their hormones until they start flowering anyway and it's their natural response to hermie on you if it gets too stressed in an attempt to reproduce still