mother getting 18 hrs light/day and flowering! Why?

2easy said:

Oh i see what you mean. Sorry I believe I misunderstood your post.

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No worries bro

I wasn't trying to argue in my first post either. I was simply asking if you had a copy of the information as I know a lot of people hang on to that stuff for future reference. It would save a lot of googling and often with scientific papers unless you know exactly what your looking for it can be hard to find.

2easy said:

I wasn't trying to argue in my first post either. I was simply asking if you had a copy of the information as I know a lot of people hang on to that stuff for future reference. It would save a lot of googling and often with scientific papers unless you know exactly what your looking for it can be hard to find.

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I take most scientific info with a grain of salt. This week eggs will kill you, next their so good for you. I've done some of my own research too so that's where my opinion also comes in. But first hand not read. 18/6 seems to be best for male female ratios. 20/4 holds plants into veg better, and 15 or 16 and 8 or 9 is pushing it. The gas lantern routine is good for some stuff but not for most. If I wasn't so damn dumb and curious id be rich, and stick with what worked well, instead of always trying new things. But money isn't my focus, I really just like to strive to be better. My biggest fear was being a failure in life, that fear has long gone but the intensity of it all remains. Come to think of it though I think it was ram dass and some scientists who did the study overseas

The 20/4 thing is true. I saw it in a scientific article. Any day length less than 20 hours will cause Cannabis to flower eventually. It just takes longer with, say, 19 hours. With 20/4 or longer they will stay vegetative indefinitely. Or you could use repeating 9/3 cycles. As long as the cycles coincide with a 24 hour cycle the plants will be fine. Like it couldn't be 9/4 or something. I use 6/2 myself. I don't like them to be in darkness for very long because plants elongate during the dark phases. The shorter the darkness, the less stretching. My plants are extremely short. No hermies or anything. They also go into flowering faster. They're actually getting longer light phases under 12/12 than they were in veg, so they adjust to it easier than going from very long light phases to much shorter ones as they would with 18/6 or 20/4 to 12/12. With my method, both the light phases and dark phases get longer when switched to flowering. This makes them flower quickly, without a 24-36 hour dark phase. I tried the 24 darkness and there was no difference.

Same thing just happened to me as well.
I totally feel your pain.


Luckily tho, I have the mother / cutting I took 4 weeks ago and it's not going into flower yet under 24/0, although is definitely showing sex like a mature plant. Long orange whisps.

After reading this post and my latest experience, I'll be doing 24/0 from now on.