Can you keep a plant in veg stage outside?

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avillax

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I'm growing outdoors and wanted to know if I can keep a plant in vegetative stage if I add a tiny supplemental LED (a LED desktoo lamp) on a timer for 13 hours or so. Keep in mind it would already be receiving direct natural sunlight.
 
horribleherk

horribleherk

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That's what some greenhouse operations do they use sunlight until sunset & then turn on the light I suppose they could start light prior to sunrise & turn off light at sunrise as well
 
.Smoke

.Smoke

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Indoor or outdoor. Plants don't know these terms.

Probably need a old flourecent shop light at least I would think, but if weather stays nice I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.
 
Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence

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Devil's cabbage said:
I personally wouldn't. Why do you want to?
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People do it all the time. You can harvest year round outdoors. I have a small outdoor greenhouse that I added blue led diodes to that are set to come on for an hour in the middle of the night. It "tricks" the plant into thinking it's summer.

And to answer your other post, yes a small desk led desk lamp is enough light to trick one plant to keep veging. The light isn't designed to veg the plant out, but to instead trigger the photoreceptors.

If you don't know the answer to a question, why would you even post in the first place?
 
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avillax

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Johnny Lawrence said:
People do it all the time. You can harvest year round outdoors. I have a small outdoor greenhouse that I added blue led diodes to that are set to come on for an hour in the middle of the night. It "tricks" the plant into thinking it's summer.

And to answer your other post, yes a small desk led desk lamp is enough light to trick one plant to keep veging. The light isn't designed to veg the plant out, but to instead trigger the photoreceptors.

If you don't know the answer to a question, why would you even post in the first place?
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My man, your answer is helpful. Why does it have to be in the middle of the night? Why not a little before sunset and keep on to accumulate more than 12 hours including natural sunlight
 
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Devil's cabbage

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Johnny Lawrence said:
People do it all the time. You can harvest year round outdoors. I have a small outdoor greenhouse that I added blue led diodes to that are set to come on for an hour in the middle of the night. It "tricks" the plant into thinking it's summer.

And to answer your other post, yes a small desk led desk lamp is enough light to trick one plant to keep veging. The light isn't designed to veg the plant out, but to instead trigger the photoreceptors.

If you don't know the answer to a question, why would you even post in the first place?
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Won't it stress the plant?
 
Herb & Suds

Herb & Suds

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I take several cuts from said plant and clone
Trash plant, now I am an easy four weeks out, and not needing to do anything
Lower light but longer hours usually leads to preflower but no big deal
But ultimately
I keep them going
You can too... A 600 watt cheap led actual 100 wattish will keep a dozen plants alive for months
 
Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence

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avillax said:
My man, your answer is helpful. Why does it have to be in the middle of the night? Why not a little before sunset and keep on to accumulate more than 12 hours including natural sunlight
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It doesn't have to be.

When I started doing it, I'd have the timer set to stay on an hour or two or three past sunset, depending on the time of the year/sunset. But I would have to keep adjusting the timer as the season progressed. So now I just have it set to come on from 11 to midnight. That hour is enough to trick the plant into staying in veg.
 
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Devil's cabbage

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Johnny Lawrence said:
No. Again, quit answering posts if you don't actually know the answers to them. This is how misinformation is spread.
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A bit snarky today are we? If you know something that you want to share, we are all here to learn, but having a juvenile attitude is what makes people look at you like a fool, if you're not, maybe try not acting like one.
 
Johnny Lawrence

Johnny Lawrence

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Devil's cabbage said:
A bit snarky today are we? If you know something that you want to share, we are all here to learn, but having a juvenile attitude is what makes people look at you like a fool, if you're not, maybe try not acting like one.
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Says the guy posting wrong information. Again, this is how false information is spread in our community.

Every once in a while, a subject gets brought up here on RIU(usually in the led subsection) that is way over my head. You know what I don't do? I don't post in the thread like I know what I'm talking about when I actually don't. It's a pretty simple concept.

And you have the audacity to call me the fool? Laughable.
 
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Devil's cabbage

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Johnny Lawrence said:
Says the guy posting wrong information. Again, this is how false information is spread in our community.

Every once in a while, a subject gets brought up here on RIU(usually in the led subsection) that is way over my head. You know what I don't do? I don't post in the thread like I know what I'm talking about when I actually don't. It's a pretty simple concept.

And you have the audacity to call me the fool? Laughable.
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I didn't call you a fool I merely pointed out that you are acting like one. No need to comment, I'm done.
 
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