Blacklights... No not for growing.

I was just throwing this idea around in my head but what are your opinions on throwing a blacklight in a grow room so you can work during the plants "Night". Do you think this would affect their schedule considering it is UV?

MidwestMike said:

I was just throwing this idea around in my head but what are your opinions on throwing a blacklight in a grow room so you can work during the plants "Night". Do you think this would affect their schedule considering it is UV?

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Use a green bulb, it won't affect the plants. Blacklights are NOT for growing.

Alright thanks bud, but I know Blacklights aren't, hence the title of the post.

MidwestMike said:

I was just throwing this idea around in my head but what are your opinions on throwing a blacklight in a grow room so you can work during the plants "Night". Do you think this would affect their schedule considering it is UV?

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there is a bit of controversy over using black lights, or rather any form of uv during growing.. but you'd definitely not want to use it, or any from or light during the lights off period as it would affect the flowering period for sure.. the only light that they say is safe to use during lights out is green, as its the spectrum that plants don't pick up the color.. but i wouldn't even leave a green bulb on for extended periods during lights out.
but if you'd like to use any forms of uv lights during lights on, this is another topic all together.. a lot of people say that it uv light really advances the maturing of tricomes in the plant.. the only problem that i've heard with uv, is that if used for too long of periods, it will mature the trics much too quickly, and they will be ready long before the buds are ready to picked otherwise.. and if you let them continue to grow like this, by the time you were ready to pick the buds, the trics would be very badly degraded and the smoke would be long past its peak..
now, if you were able to figure out the sweet spot of how much uv light is too much, and how much is not, than i think it could in fact be beneficial to growing.. but i haven't read enough info on what that sweet spot is, and i'd rather someone else do the experimenting for me so that they can do all the trial and error, and i could come swooping in and reap all the rewards..
if you'd like to volunteer yourself, and post the results, i would be rather grateful, lol..

MidwestMike said:

Alright thanks bud, but I know Blacklights aren't, hence the title of the post.

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Just like to clarify for anyone else reading.

racerboy71 said:

if you'd like to volunteer yourself, and post the results, i would be rather grateful, lol..

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I may have to try that, the next couple months I am setting up everything and getting my ducks in a row, but one grow I may have to do that.

MidwestMike said:

I may have to try that, the next couple months I am setting up everything and getting my ducks in a row, but one grow I may have to do that.

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yah, like i've said, i don't know all that much about it, but i have done a lil reading on the topic.. i've yet to make up my mind really as to whether or not uv is indeed beneficial to growing or not.. but i would love to see some expirements done on it to either prove or disprove the theories.

It seems to me like there are about 177539261923 ways of growing, but until you find the 1 way that you can perfect that's when you get the good stuff. I mean, every form of science contradicts the next so who knows. If I set it up I will definatly let you know.

i agree.. what some people may say is the perfect setup, others may think of as taboo.. i love when people think and do stuff outside of the box.. can you imagine being the person who came up with hydroponics? i'm sure he got laughed right out of his local gardening club much like Galileo got laughed out of his astronomy club.. but who's laughing now, not that you can do much laughing when your dead, but you get my point...

Yeah true that, it's hard to come up with the new stuff here of late. I just try and take ideas and alter them and make them more efficient. One of these day's I'll sit down and try to come up with a break through. I have an idea but am not a botanist.

I know I'm going to sound like a big meanie, but there's no excuse for entering the grow space after lights-out

It's almost impossible to go about doing this regularly, without damaging the yield, or interrupting the bloom phase. It's hard to even gauge just how much damage you've done, unless you compare side-by-side what your specific environment can produce, without darkness interruption.

Do your work during the day. If you can't? Set the light schedule up so you can... if you're at work all day, let that be their night time, and have them go on when you get home. So long as their night time temps are still cooler than their day time temps, you're golden.

BadKittySmiles said:

I know I'm going to sound like a big meanie, but there's no excuse for entering the grow space after lights-out

It's almost impossible to go about doing this regularly, without damaging the yield, or interrupting the bloom phase. It's hard to even gauge just how much damage you've done, unless you compare side-by-side what your specific environment can produce, without darkness interruption.

Do your work during the day. If you can't? Set the light schedule up so you can... if you're at work all day, let that be their night time, and have them go on when you get home. So long as their night time temps are still cooler than their day time temps, you're golden.

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i don't think you sound like a meany at all, lol.. i tend to agree with you.. i try to avoid interrupt the ladies when they are sleeping at all costs.. i know some people say that the green lights are fine at dark, but i don't think i would want to use one for any extended period of time during lights out..

I'm by no means an experienced grower, but I have read a lot of journals and articles and guides, and I've noticed this Blacklight thing come up before, and the general consensus I've seen is that Blacklights can be used to sort of "flash" the plants during flowering, shortly before harvest, to up the trichomes and cause purple and blueish coloration on the buds.

From what I've read it has to be done at the right time and only for short periods, because you are technically burning the plant, and only want to shock it enough to cause the trich growth and alter the color. Several pretty decent growers I've followed have sworn by this technique, at least as far as making purple buds, but the actual increase in trichomes seems to be rather hit and miss.

The main reason I was wondering was because of my work schedule. I work midnights and go to school so I wish I had a day/night schedule myself but quite frankly I don't. And don't worry I don't get upset, unless you Falcon Punch my mother. Other than that I chill.