My 8hr flowering experiment

[torontoke]

Sorry guys should have re read that post a little less medicated.
I'm not planning a random rage quit or worse just won't be posting as much as I have been and didn't want to lose contact.
More of a worst case scenario.

 

[kmog33]

Your experiments have me thinking about an old Heath Robinson trick; lighting the plant on one side for six hours, then on the other side for another six, and then twelve in the dark.

I think I've mentioned it before, but it has me thinking about it being another way to get more yield from the plant without spending more energy.

We used to run our veg room like that. 20 lights 10 on 10 off at a time during veg ever other light so we had 24/0 but only ran 10k watts at a time for veg and did not see a huge difference in vigor between running them like this vs running all 20k watts all the time.

Flower we ran all 20 though...


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[torontoke]

Homeybee1

Honeybee2

 

[torontoke]

Grandpas breath 2
Grandpas breath 1,3 are gone to a buddies room.

 

[torontoke]

I adopted some sick kids from the same friend.
One of the straggliest looking pairs I've ever seen.
Suppose to be a gorilla wreck but I wouldn't know. Looks like it will be touch n go if I can even save these.

 

[ttystikk]

I adopted some sick kids from the same friend.
One of the straggliest looking pairs I've ever seen.
Suppose to be a gorilla wreck but I wouldn't know. Looks like it will be touch n go if I can even save these.
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They'll be all right with a little TLC!

OK, a lot of TLC...

 

[torontoke]

He carried them out of his room and I asked "where the fuk did u hatch those the dash of your car?" lol.
Guys in his sixties and he used jiffy pots to take up room in the containers Cus he ran out of promix.
Sounds like a challenge but fuk it I'll try

If I can get those things going using glr than even I will be surprised.

 

[whitebb2727]

He carried them out of his room and I asked "where the fuk did u hatch those the dash of your car?" lol.
Guys in his sixties and he used jiffy pots to take up room in the containers Cus he ran out of promix.
Sounds like a challenge but fuk it I'll try

If I can get those things going using glr than even I will be surprised.

I'm not sure about cannabis but just about any other flower or veggie that I've saved I cut about 50-60% of the growth off.
I know it sounds crazy but it works. The root mass is bigger than what's needed for the remaining growth. It grows new growth faster than than what it could heal. Especially in a good organic soil.

 

[torontoke]

I'm not sure about cannabis but just about any other flower or veggie that I've saved I cut about 50-60% of the growth off.
I know it sounds crazy but it works. The root mass is bigger than what's needed for the remaining growth. It grows new growth faster than than what it could heal. Especially in a good organic soil.

Ya I will need to get these out of the beechsand/promix/jiffy pots lol
I don't have the patience to go organic but I will be cutting off some of that mess.
Maybe even just turn them into a few cuts instead of saving them whole.
They have a weird viney growth.
I asked if he topped them and he didn't know what I meant so I was kinda confused how they went horizontal

 

[whitebb2727]

Ya I will need to get these out of the beechsand/promix/jiffy pots lol
I don't have the patience to go organic but I will be cutting off some of that mess.
Maybe even just turn them into a few cuts instead of saving them whole.
They have a weird viney growth.
I asked if he topped them and he didn't know what I meant so I was kinda confused how they went horizontal

I'm sure they will be fine. Its a pretty strong plant.

 

[ttystikk]

I'm not sure about cannabis but just about any other flower or veggie that I've saved I cut about 50-60% of the growth off.
I know it sounds crazy but it works. The root mass is bigger than what's needed for the remaining growth. It grows new growth faster than than what it could heal. Especially in a good organic soil.

Oh, this works great for weed too - especially if you're cleaning up the suckers underneath and such.

 

[torontoke]

 

[torontoke]

 

[torontoke]

Sick kids are slowly coming around.
Way more viney type of growth.

 

[torontoke]

Honeybee #2 topped
honeybee #1 fim'd tight nodes

 

[torontoke]

 

[ttystikk]

I think that in my little experiment cab I will try out an 8/16 flower cycle this next go around. Should be interesting.

Did you ever try this schedule? What were your findings?

 

[torontoke]

Think he disappeared awhile back.

 

[ttystikk]

Think he disappeared awhile back.

That's too bad.

 

[ArcticOrange]

16 pages of thread and no where does anyone claim superior results so not sure where that came from.
6 hrs definitely meant less heat tho thats common sense and its obviously less energy on the light too since were pointing out all the obvious.
Your photosynthisis assumption im not so sure about. The article that this light cycle came from claims that a plant or fruitting tree actually does its synthesisizing during the dark period so if thats true than a longer dark period may be benefitial.
I didnt start this thread to argue or try to get people to join the "dark side."
In your garden or growroom keep doing whatever it is you do and good luck to ya.

This is pretty old i know but the premise here is incorrect. C3 plants do not photosynthesize OR fix carbon during lights off. It is the most inefficient time for C3 plants and based on that alone im skeptical however you have had success flowering in half the light now to truly make a comparison you can do grams per kwh might give you a nice comparison of the two.