Lighting-before flowering??

I have heard before you go to flowering stage you should have 36 hours or darkness. Is this accurate?

Some pople say that yhe plants will enter flowering quicker. You do not need to do it thou. Most people just switch to 12/12.

StreetRider said:

Some pople say that yhe plants will enter flowering quicker. You do not need to do it thou. Most people just switch to 12/12.

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I just switch to 12/12 and it works great for me. Think about it, what we are really trying to do is recreate nature so the plants can do there thing. Since when do we have a 36 hour solar eclipse to tell the plants in the wild its time to flower? To each there own I guess.

Sounds right to me. Thanks for the input.

ofc u can allways experiment but as said by bigbudmike, just go with the 12/12 to be "normal" if there is a diference it will probably not even be noticed in a blind test. There is thread about just this going on, about 38 posts now and one 6th of them ended in flaming eachother for some ppl trying to win the internet or something.

I had 2 harvests so long and both by just going 12/12 and they worked fine =)

Yuo mean 36hours darkness before harvest, not 12/12.

I was talking about before flowering but I also have heard some turn off their lights before harvest. I have had varying info on that subject. Whats your thought should you turn the lights off several days before harvesting?

Swisher Sweet said:

I was talking about before flowering but I also have heard some turn off their lights before harvest. I have had varying info on that subject. Whats your thought should you turn the lights off several days before harvesting?

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I think thats a good idea. Not sure why but I think the majority of trych production occurs at night, so it makes sense to leave it in the dark and let the trychs go wild.