Power outage, HELP.

So, lets say lightning strikes near a grow and the power goes out, during vegging how long could you go with a one time shortage without having to ultimately move into flowering. Will one 24 hour period send you directly into flowering or could you stay in veg without risks (stress and/or hermies, etc.)? what if the power outage lasted 12 hours or even longer than 24? Had a scare and just curious for the future.

I remember reading that you should continue your normal lighting cycle when power resumes. So if power comes back on during what would have been the dark period, let it be until the normal light period would come around then switch the lights back on. It does stress the plants, but I think that method was what reduced stress the most.

that helps a bit, but is that also true while your in vegging either 24/0 or 18/6. Basically I'm wondering if the transition to flowering is basically immediate or does 1 12-24 hour dark period not do much to the plant and can you remain in vegging without too much negative effect.

If it happens once in a while in Veg, you will barely stress the plants. It was just a day of thunderstorms and clouds in the wild. In Veg everything is more flexible.

When the plant gets 12 hours of dark, a hormone is released, when that hormone reaches a set tipping point then flowering begins. It isn't immediate - it has to build up over some time. Depends on strain from there.

You could always stand over the plants with a flashlight until the lights come back on.

It takes several 12/12 cycles before the plants flower.If you resume your normal lighting after outage you should be fine. Good luck.

thanks guys, thats what i fugured but I wanted to be sure.