I am wondering if during the veg phase it really matters much about the light cycle. I mean, should my only concern be just that I don't go less than 12 hours? If I, for example, sometimes turn my light off at 7 at night, then on occasion turn it off at 6, could this be an issue even if I always have between 18 to 20 hours of light per day? Or in another words, is it sometimes OK to go 17 or 18 hours one day, then say 19 on another day? The reason why I haven't had a consistent light routine is because I live in a studio and my grow room can sometimes disturb me. This is especially the case because if I have my light on, I always have to use the air-conditioning -- and sometimes I just sick of the air-conditioning being on all the time so I tend to turn it off in the evening (which is also the same time when I turn off my HPS light. Any thoughts? And again, this is just for veg, not flowering.
I don't really know if this would affect your plants in any way other than slowing down their growth. You might get a lot of pre-flowers.. not really sure. My grow is right next to my bed in a closet, and my schedule runs till 12:30. I go to sleep at 10ish and just throw up a black tarp, with velcro, around my closet and that keeps a lot of the light from escaping so I can sleep pretty easily. Or I just get drunk and pass out on my bed looking at my plants :qbluewacko: One thing though.. You gotta get serious about growing if you are gonna grow.. Don't be in kindergarten where it's ok to color outside the lines. Doing this will only limit your grows potential.
Light Cycles. :hello:Well i messed around with my light cycle during veg and now i have a flowering hermy,it was not in the genetics as the plant was a clone taken from a feminised motherplant called Northern Pride from High Quality Seeds so it must have been something i did wrong that "stressed" it and apart from messing with the light cycle(i have been doing it manually as all my timers seem to self destruct!) i cannot think of any other reason why a top quality strain taken from a feminised motherplant then cloned and rooted for me could possibly turn hermy. I think i'll be investing in a digital timer for my next grow which will be Dolce Vita from Dutch Passion which costs $130 and is meant to be good,any info?But yea i'll be making sure i got no light leakages or any messed up light cycles.Thanx 4 the advice Danke:icon_thumleft: :icon_flower: Cybele :icon_flower:
mANY growers operATe under the assumption that hermie causing stress only occurs during flowering. I disagree....I don't have any science to back up this belief, but I do believe you are better off to avoid stress at anytime of growth. get yourself a timer.
Advice Appreciated. :hello: El Campesino or should i call you The Farmer?Thanx 4 the advice,i have bought timers from home depot type places but they seem to work fine until i use them on my HPS(when i can borrow them),do you think it is the hps lighting thats too much for the timer? I try not to stress my plant,not even clone it or trim leaf but i think it suffered some stress through lighting issues or when i re-potted the clone as it grew:icon_scratch: Thanx 4 any help :icon_flower: Cybele :icon_flower:
How many watts are you running off of it? mine from Home Depot is rated to 1000 watts...though I've ran it a few months with a little more. it burned out on me last grow after about 2 years service, so I figure that's alright...it was adigital with a connecter strip....fine for 20 bucks. I suspected the hermies are the result of lighting stress rather than transplanting
a friend of mine just bought an analog timer, (the kind with a dial, and gears,) from lowes, an he says he'll never buy digital again simply cause of how easy analog timers are to use. plus he only paid six bucks for it, and i think they last forever. this same guy got hermies when he tried to reveg. his plants cause he didnt have a timer since his thirty dollar digital from the growshop broke on him in like a year.
Basically, and I have to check mine everyday, they are prone to slipping five minutes are so a day foward or back...
i prefer analogue timers too. they are easier to program than digital ones. i also only use industrial grade timers but i agree that they don't keep perfect time but they are close enough for what we do. your plants don't have a digital watches either and outdoors day to day the length of the daylight varies slightly
I assume that since plants "wake up" before the light goes on there is some awareness of time. So I like to keep it regular and let them get some sleep. I have been successful on 14/10
