Should I Taper Down To 12/12?

As the title says I was wondering if its was less stressful if I taper down to 12/12 from 18/6 or just flip directly to 12/12?

Not sure if its debatable or not but I've gone directly to 12/12 on my grows and they don't show signs of stress from doing so.

I wanted to see if anyone has done it and whether its made a difference. Like nature it slowly drops in light every day.

I do it but cant tell any difference ....... Its the small things that can count so i keep doing it......just like outside



it wont do any harm either way.


you may see the difference in a massive grow maybe with yeild.....but not a small grow.....gpod luck

I just flip overnight to 12/12. Never had a problem

don't listen to @bradburry he's never grown anything in his 16 years

I was wondering the same thing myself. Seems like the ideal thing to do would be to have the lights come on a few minutes later, and off a few minutes earlier each day, but I don't know if it would help the plant or not. I did read an interesting article the other day that said to bring the plants down to 10 hours of light per day. The reason given was that Cannabis is a 'short-day' plant, and while 12/12 will make it bud, it will always be on the verge of re-vegging, thus making it take longer to finish, and more vulnerable to problems from light leaks.

Don't have a clue how accurate that is, but it's what I read and it sounds like it makes sense. I'm thinking of taking mine down about 5 minutes a day until I hit 11/13 just to make sure the plants understand what I want them to do.