15 minute dark cycle interruption

Nykodemuz said:

I'm in week 7 of flower. I'm wondering if I should stop nutes. I stopped nitrogen two weeks ago, stopped micronutes last week, and I've been giving them bloom, and phosphorus

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I water twice per week. The plants are in 10-gallon fabric pots. I do a full plain water on sundays with 20% runoff to measure pH, and ppm and the plants are all basically 6.5 pH, and PPM ranges from 300 on some plants, and 1100 on others. Most are 500 ton 600 ppm.

Then, on Thursday, I water each plant with 6.5 pH, water temp at 21c, and the ppm at the difference from Sundays ppm, so if the plant had a runoff ppm of 300 in Sunday, I water a half gallon of water with bloom of 700 ppm.

Anyone recommend a better watering regiment? Nutes always go down, so I know the plants are taking up the nutes.

I also try to keep the tent at 45RH at all times. I have 3 thermometers, one two inches above the canopy, one 2 inches below, and one at the pot level. I am not too concerned with the floor as it is always colder and more humid, same for below the canopy, but the one right above I try to keep RH at 45, and VPD between 1.1 and 1.5 kPa so the canopy is less humid, helping uptake.

How do others manage thier watering?

If your seeds DNA gives you Hermies after a single 15mins Blackout, I wouldnt continue to grow it

From the photos it looks like you may be overlightingnplants ornt least not giving them q good enough environment

go back to normal it is not going to hurt them

Nykodemuz said:

My plants are in week 7 of flower. My dark cycle is from 8:15pm to 8:15am. This morning when I checked the plants at 8:30am, the lights were off and thought the timer goofed, totally forgetting last night was spring ahead time change and turned in the lights.

15 min later after turning them on I realized it was spring ahead and I turned on the lights about an hour too early so I went and shut them off, waited till 9:15am and then turned them back on and fixed the timer to continue 12/12 from 9:15am to 9:15pm.

My question is, will their be an issue by turning the lights on, one hour earlier for 15 min, shutting it off for 30 min than turning them back on again at this now new 12 hour light cycle?

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15mins is not going to hurt you at all. I actually a few times played with my timer; increasing dark hours little by little until reached 14dark and then worked way back too 12/12....had an explosive impact.

My idea I'm having... I'm curious about now is flipping plants back too 12/12 After a 48 dark period (8th week of flowering) like I'm going to harvest but dont...which I fully intend to harvest but I was wondering about waiting a few more days and going back to 12/12 , so the plant can utilize all those dark hour hormones built up for growth....

I'd like to know if anyone has tried this. I understand the 48hrs dark and chop but what if 48hrs dark back too 12/12 a few days and then dark again and chop.....seems the plant would be able to utilize all the built up hormones from the dark cycle that way at least once....sketchy, but to me sounds like a helluva an idea....harvest is here anyway, theyed get chopped before I'd see any sign of Hermie anyway.

Input appreciated, can't believe I haven't found this idea anywhere....