Dark period before flower?

Yeah, if you don't raise the lights a bit they'll continue to have eraddic growth.

Most plants will stop at the top, and then bulk up around it, it they start shooting new pistols after the bulking, back off a bit... Nutes too.

But...

Some long flowering sativas will do this a few times before they're done... Most hybrids do the previous explaination.

What do you think about putting the light 1in from the top of the plant and moving the plant 6inches or so from underneath the light? So it's sitting to the side of the plant. I just did that so my clones are now less than 2ft from the light.

how do you do this with a perpetual harvest sog, have a dark room seperate before you move them into your sog. definitely wouldnt want to turn the lights off on my mother/veg area for 24 hours. personally i dont do this, is it really necessary?

I don't get it turboawd, explain, I was talking about moving the lights away at the end of flowering...

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And the dark period before flowering can't be done in a perpetual room...

I'm perpetual enough having a mother room with the plants vegged out for flowering. They all start flowering at the same time.

yeah i just realized i can't do the 10 hour lights unless i pull the plant thats about to be chopped and put it in a closet.

I was talking about moving the lights away too. but instead dropping them down so my little clones in their 3rd week of flower can get some quality light. What I did was move the plant 6inches away from directly under the light so i could bring the light down to basically the plants canopy. Most of the plant is in the light but its to the side, not directly under. I could take a picture of the shenanigans if it would help.

coll said:

how do you do this with a perpetual harvest sog, have a dark room seperate before you move them into your sog. definitely wouldnt want to turn the lights off on my mother/veg area for 24 hours. personally i dont do this, is it really necessary?

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It's not necessary, I'm gonna put one in the dark tomorrow and put another in the flowering room and see which of them sex out first. Both are cuttings from the same plant.

I was gonna do this at flower but never did, then had wiring problems, and ended up with 24hrs dark anyway the first day of flowering.
Out of four plants, in a weeks exactly, i have two confirmed females, one confirmed male, and one i'm still unsure of. It's only been a week, and i have sexed three out of four.
I think it helped a bit!

Awesome reslults of this thread. It started it 15 days ago and wow! Thanks Mr howard Marks for for showing up. I got the last few days of reading to do.

Just aquired a t5 for my NL clones and fem cheese seed mother, and the NL girls in flower, only three made it, are doing good. Huge growth after 5-6 weeks veg.

2 inchs from the 400 watt it is so cold outside hear. Hehe, you can see they love it, got a 55k lumen full spectrum hps bulb coming to replace the hd purchaesd one today. Kool bloom, big bud going into the res. anyway. . .

thanls all for answering my question so far rofl. . .

oh yeah this guy on plant probs said at the cannabis cup greenhouse seeds told him 72 hours at mh to hps switchover to flower. Idk if he posted here yet but I gotta run. Reps to as many as I can.

I think 3 days of darkness is too much, they'll begin to go into dormancy and they won't be respirating or drinking hardly at all. 48 HOURS AT MOST.

I've read a lot about how giving a full 24 hours darkness helps trigger the flowering cycle, no problems sharing info.


You'll love that t5, I wish I had one myself, It's definately on the list of thing to get after this harvest...

I had 2 of them, but sold them thinking I wouldn't need them... Whoops.

A great thing for a t5 is to use both the daylight and bloom bulbs and get a perfect spectrum going. 2 grow 2 bloom bulbs per... The plants love it.