I think ur right I probably won't get around to it
A cheap easy way to see if you like end-of-day far red is to get an incandescent blacklight bulb. They put out almost all far red, with just a little UVA. I run them for 5 minutes, that's all you need. Speeds up ripening by 1-2 weeks. It works for me. I guess eventually they'll stop selling incandescent blacklights but for now you can still find them at Walmart, 60w. I don't think my plants were even ripening completely with 10 full weeks before the addition of far red. I still use normal 12/12 cycle but now they actually get ripe and at only 60 days. If you only used 10.5 hours of darkness then you wouldn't get the enhanced ripening effect, though you may get more weight from the extra light.
Yeah but you can't buy them a Walmart, except maybe for photography. The blacklights are just easy to get. I don't like ordering stuff if I can avoid it. Maybe the UVA from it is also helpful. Nobody tried end of day far red + UVA. Seems to work well.
It can't just be red, it has to be far red (735 nm being best). Red actually reverses the far red effect. This shows the spectrum of an incandescent blacklight bulb. As you can see, it's a far red machine. The UVA is a secondary much smaller part of the output. It can't be a CFL blacklight btw, different spectrum.
Me too and yeppers was years ago
Blacklight bulbs cost about $6 and a socket costs about $5. Running a 60w bulb for 5 minutes a day is not going add much to your power bill. Anyway, to each his own. I like my crops ripening at least 10 days earlier than otherwise myself. Others may prefer the extra weight they can get from slower ripening times. With 10 days shorter cycles you could get an extra crop in per year, I would think, so the yield probably works out similarly. If I had to go to the trouble of ordering a special light I might not bother, but it was easy with the blacklight bulbs so why not? Costed less than adding lizard lights, that's for sure, which I also did and which did seem to help potency.
I get faster finish and an extra crop a year by usin GasLight veg
was powerful enough to add to the stretch LOL
several different ways, did begining of day, begining and end, end and all the time, the experiment went on for 3 grows
Incandescent ones actually put out way more FR than UVA, but the UV is what they're sold for. Just look at the image I posted earlier. The little bump at 400 is the UVA part. The huge spike is the far red part.
