Urgent help required please

help, 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

Note: i am using a 6/12 experimental lighting schedule as being researched in the indoor growing section, proven to decrease flowering time.

so basically if you have yours on 12/12, what would you do if you had a 24hr period of darkness cos plants tell the time of season by length of darkness and not time exposed to light. (from what i've read)

I'd switch it straight back to the normal light schedule it was on before it got fucked up....

doing it slowly will just stress the plant out even more I would think since the light schedule would be changing all the time, many times, rather than just once.

I agree because i dont think the plant is yet that used to 18 hours darkness bc of one night, it would still be more of the 12/12 so just put it on the regular schedule you had it on and it should do fine. IMO

One extra night won't hurt anything, just put it back to regular schedule and it will be fine. Don't worry , be happy.

yeah happened to me my first day of flowering really didnt think nuttin of it but a good way to do it is throw away the timer and do it ur self so u know for sure the lights are going to be on/off cuz what juss happened to u happens alot i say only use the timer when ur goin to leave it unattended

n00b_marijuana_grower said:

yeah happened to me my first day of flowering really didnt think nuttin of it but a good way to do it is throw away the timer and do it ur self so u know for sure the lights are going to be on/off cuz what juss happened to u happens alot i say only use the timer when ur goin to leave it unattended

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Buy good quality heavy duty analog timers and you shouldn't have to worry about it. This is one place where you get what you pay for, cheap timers are false economy,

cheers guys, the help was great, fast responses thank you

jimmyspaz said:

Buy good quality heavy duty analog timers and you shouldn't have to worry about it. This is one place where you get what you pay for, cheap timers are false economy,

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why waste so much money when u can do it ur self and all u gotta do is get up and hit a switch not hard at all

n00b_marijuana_grower said:

why waste so much money when u can do it ur self and all u gotta do is get up and hit a switch not hard at all

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All good except when you you forget, are away ,or something else unexpected happens. I feel much safer and more relaxed having timers thanx, one less thing to worry about,,,