BenFranklin
Well-Known Member
Nay, sir, plants stretch for light in the dark. They don't add weight, the further you get away from the time that they had light, the less weight they will put on as they stretch and stretch and to the point of no return and then flop... fall over and die... =)
I've recently had the experience of comparing 250MH vs a 189-200 watt T5 veggie chamber, both 24/7. I find that under the T5, the growth is MUCH more compact, MUCH more lush. I account this toward the fact that the MH has more red light and produces more heat. I have to wait and see what happens when I put them under a 1000w HPS for flowering.
Flowering hormones build up over time, inducing a 24 hour dark period for 5-7 days puts undue, unnatural stress on the plant. It promotes stretching and weakened growth, the plant then has to bounce back from 24 hours to the 12 regular flowering schedule. I believe in plants with hermaphrodite tendencies will be MORE likely to show in this case if growing from seed.
Indoors, this method would be a growers nightmare as the plants kola's stretch but starts popping out massive quantities of popcorn nuggets all over the bottom of the plant that NEVER EVER receive enough light to ever grow to amount to anything significant outside of putting it in fucking butter.
Not to mention the stretch that will occur because of the regular flowering hormone that naturally makes the plant stretch to begin with.....
Nah, seriously, I am not going to even lower myself further to even respond to that person which claims this method works. This method is not only stupid, it's bullshit, made up, nonsense. HOGWASH. He has no experience, nor does the person who he claims he has learned this from. Which I believe itself is a made up story.
