11/13 flower cycle

[MrStickyScissors]

I think it's funny when people say the key to growing large flowers is to veg large plants or what ever the fuck. DUH! it
s like saying well ya know the key to being a good porn star is having big dick.

 

[MrStickyScissors]

Personally I don't give a shit about large flowers. all that I care about is a large number when it hits the scale and the fastest rout to that

 

[Darth Vapour]

Personally I don't give a shit about large flowers. all that I care about is a large number when it hits the scale and the fastest rout to that

water them fuckers hard would you not agree then by giving them less light would in fact lower yields instead of raise yields i always wondered why so many people try to trim leafs so that light gets to lower bud sites when if what people are saying here the key was not the light but giving the plant more darkness ..

 

[ISK]

Has anyone tried a more dark period during flowering instead of 12/12 opinions?

I've tried 11/13 and it seemed to do well but can't say for sure if it was any better or worst than 12/12

best to just give it a try, if nothing else it will consume less electricity

 

[MrStickyScissors]

water them fuckers hard would you not agree then by giving them less light would in fact lower yields instead of raise yields i always wondered why so many people try to trim leafs so that light gets to lower bud sites when if what people are saying here the key was not the light but giving the plant more darkness ..

yes I do agress less light less weight. I used to think that pruning leaves in flower was a bad idea. If you know what you are doing tho it isn't. I can't even say that I know how yet or feel comfortable doing it but it's true. there is a way to prune in flower and you will yield more FACT

 

[MrStickyScissors]

heres my question. I'm going to expand my grow and add 3 Gavitas over a 5 foot wide by 12 foot long table. I'm running sea of green so I will have 5 feet of clearance inbetween the canopy when they are fully grown. ok ready? here's the question. " by putting wall mount fans blowing between the light and the canopy will it displace some of the heat. is there a benefit to that?"

 

[Darth Vapour]

Mr SS having any air movement is a must having them between lights will only start moving lights around specially if there on chain or hangers ..
i would think as for my self i always used stand up fans and had fan blowing above tops and light horizontally as to not create wind burn but to have nice even soft leaf movement , and get rid of any trapped heat sitting in canopy

 

[MrStickyScissors]

Mr SS having any air movement is a must having them between lights will only start moving lights around specially if there on chain or hangers ..
i would think as for my self i always used stand up fans and had fan blowing above tops and light horizontally as to not create wind burn but to have nice even soft leaf movement , and get rid of any trapped heat sitting in canopy

thats what I'm saying, not direct on the plants but right above the tops not even hitting the plants and not hitting the lights, in the middle of both. like a layer of wind that the heat has to go thru. and then other fans in the room just blowing around towards the plants like normal

 

[MrStickyScissors]

I'm still wondering if that will help or hinder my grow

 

[Darth Vapour]

more air movement is always better then not enough what strain ??? study where it came from for instance i grown ppp plant i studied the relative RH and winds and temps adjusted accordingly and pow insane results some strains like wind others not so much same thing applies for temps instead of normal temps that everyone tends to follow 76- 77 etc under stand the strains as for me bumped up veg temps 86 - 88 degrees C watered more frequently in flower made it rain as monsoon weather raise winds etc and got results like this

 

[BobCajun]

I don't think the 6/12 light cycle thing would work well. From what little I've been able to find on it, it reduces yields quite a lot. However, I've seen a few people say that 10/14 gives the same yield as 12/12 so I think that using the 10/14 cycle but with the hour of dark in the middle of the light period might be the best idea. That gets the power usage down to 9 hrs per day and I suspect that the one hour dark in the middle will actually boost yield. 9 hrs light per day is actually enough for healthy plant growth anyway so I can't see how it could do any harm. Whether or not the hour of dark will boost yield will have to be determined but I'm pretty sure it will. The 6/12 cycle is also a real pain to set up a timer to do, whereas the cycle I propose is the same every day so it's easy.