Are you hurting your plant if you give it a day off every week?

Apostatize

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Always interested in reducing costs and being more efficient. Would you be creating hermies, triggering premature flowering, or significantly stunting development, if you cut the lights off one day a week? Consequently, in a drain-to-waste hydro setup, using Grodan blocks, running perpetual bloom, this would also mean I could take a day off of watering and spend it improving things or enjoying life away from the garden....
 

Apostatize

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Setup automatic watering then u could take every day off from watering
yeah, you're probably right. had issues -- overwatering some, underwatering others ... felt like I was spending more time adjusting/modifying/adding pumps/reconfiguring hoses than focusing on plants, and you're more restricted in the # and location of plants you grow. And in perpetual bloom it's nearly impossible, I have 4-8 different nute phases to hand-feed every day. I'm using drippers now, and am more confident about feeding enough to only feed once a day.
 

Apostatize

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If you want to be more efficient, skip perpetual and head over to monocropping.
True, I've got a few contradictions going on. I like to smoke different strains throughout the day, there's one flavorful/pleasant smelling strain I just mix with more potent strains.... I'd get bored with one strain, the same # of pots, in the same spots (if that's what you mean). Perpetual and a mix of strains keeps gardening interesting. I always look forward to different #s of plants, as I'm finding which to prioritize in #s, how long to veg each one, their flowering time, and whether I should top them. Stuff like that. I'm still refining "my" process. Started with 15+ strains, multiple sources for some of them. Down to 8. Prioritizing ~5 of them. It's been fun, 14 months into this.
 
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