HELP REQUIRED, my timer didnt turn off, it must have broken somehow. anyway i was out and when i came back my lights were still on when they should have been off. therefore the light was left on a further six hours than they should have. i am running an 18 hour day of 6/12. so the plants were exposed to 12 hours of light. what should i do? should i give it a 24hrs of darkness to compensate for the dark period or just resume the timing schedule as normal. i really dont want a hermie? any help would be appreciated.
I was really tempted to try this schedule but I am already in week 3 of flowering and did not want to stress my ladies. I wish you all good luck and if things turn out well I will be implementing this on my next grow. /subscribed
Im glad you got things sorted out. Pre flowers....A++ok well here's an update. i found out that after 2 weeks of using this method, i had light leaks in my closet (shit!) so now that i have fixed this problem, 3 days (18 hr days) of putting the plant in complete darkness for the 12 off period, i had preflowers. this was 2 days ago. i now am waiting to see how long it will take. on the packet it says between 80-90 days so i shall hope for the best. its a sativa dominant plant so should take a while. will show u guys a few pictures once they are really clear cos i can only use my crappy 2 MP phone camera.
You dont have an hps bulb as yet?stretching has stopped since its been back under the mh lamp and i've been doing some research and i heard that flowering with an mh gets quality buds. may add a 2700K 125W envirolight later just to get some denser nugs. since i've been putting it in complete darkness, the preflowers are really starting to grow fast, well imo, this is my first grow so i can make no comparisons. now there are preflowers at the majority of the nodes and still spreading to the lower nodes. will take some pics later in the lighting period and post them up.
nope, this is just my first grow and seeing i'm on a tight budget i thought about giving it a miss. i was formerly going to buy a hps conversion bulb to fit in my ballast as its not interchangeable. but after i found a thread about this stuff i decided to change my mind, here's the link if you're interested.You dont have an hps bulb as yet?
Go immediately back to 6/12help, urgent help required please. i was a complete idiot and forgot to turn my timer on last night. therefore when i woke up (just as the timer should have been going off) i saw the light wasn't on. i turned the light on but the plant has recevied 18hours darkness instead of its usual 12. now seeing as mine is sativa dominant, almost all sativa, i also heard that sativas are more prone to hermies. what can i do to avoid this problem? should i gradually move it back to 6/12 or just put it straight on 6/12? any help much appreciated