Gas Lantern Routine

Budley Doright

Budley Doright

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fishdeth said:
Well... I guess it has been around 60.
First week of January.
It does freak you out to grow the plants out to 6 nodes and then cut back to the 3rd node o_O
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I'm thinking I'm going to have to cut one down to even up canopy and yup it's concerning. image.jpegThese pics are 10 days apart and topped once at 24 light cycleimage.jpeg. I tried the GLR a long time ago and didn't work well for me :(.
 
tstick

tstick

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@higher self I flipped to 11 On and 13 OFF last week. I will reduce the ON time to 10.5 ON and 13.5 OFF at the beginning of next week and continue to reduce the On time every two weeks until I get to 9 On and 15 OFF. So far, I'm sold on this technique. I'm seeing better growth in every aspect compared to when I grew 18/6 and 12/12....But, to be fair, there is still a lot of flowering ahead! We'll hope for the flowering aspect to be as great as the veg. aspect was!

Peace
 
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higher self

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tstick said:
@higher self I flipped to 11 On and 13 OFF last week. I will reduce the ON time to 10.5 ON and 13.5 OFF at the beginning of next week and continue to reduce the On time every two weeks until I get to 9 On and 15 OFF. So far, I'm sold on this technique. I'm seeing better growth in every aspect compared to when I grew 18/6 and 12/12....But, to be fair, there is still a lot of flowering ahead! We'll hope for the flowering aspect to be as great as the veg. aspect was!

Peace
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I had to go back to 18/6. Some plants started to flower mainly the males, while others didn't. I think it may be due to how small I keep the plants, I bonsai them.

If I had a separate veg space for holding keeper plants I would keep those at 18/6. Then have another space for vegging plants before they flower using GLR 12/1 light cycle. Flower with 10.5, haven't tried reducing from that yet.

If only I wasn't doing perpetual flowing I could make it happen :wall:
 
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avnewb

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Think I will do this for my flower room being that I am just about 2nd week into the switch:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/cob-grow-amnisia-cheese-sugar-something.931923/#post-13375790

I guess you lower 30min every week after 2nd week until 8th week and keep it at 9/15 until finish? I assume that was said between pages 2-5 that I did not read yet.

It was always something I had felt made sense for flowering. I am no sure on veg yet as I run such a low power setup for veg IDK that it would matter and I have no issues.
 
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higher self

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higher self said:
I had to go back to 18/6. Some plants started to flower mainly the males, while others didn't. I think it may be due to how small I keep the plants, I bonsai them.

If I had a separate veg space for holding keeper plants I would keep those at 18/6. Then have another space for vegging plants before they flower using GLR 12/1 light cycle. Flower with 10.5, haven't tried reducing from that yet.

If only I wasn't doing perpetual flowing I could make it happen :wall:
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Ok yall finally ended my perpetual flowering tent & I got that extra veg space I needed for my keeper plants. So now I can veg before flowering with the GLR 12/1 again, then when their ready flower at 11/13
 
Dynamo626

Dynamo626

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Dr. Who said:
Some folks seem to discredit Joe Pietri but, he has a column in Skunk mag. and a healthy following on Facebook (I don't Facebook) He calls it the 12-1 method. He cites Nelson's Green House Guide as his grow bible and refers to chapter 12 in said that refers to the GLR/12-1 as a staple in C3 floral commercial growing for saving money and increasing profit buy reductions in electrical costs and the shortening of flowering times.

He has been one of the leading theory testers on this subject. He had his flower lighting times down to 8/16 with very good results. He was motivated to decrease that time further after he discovered a paper from 1913 France, by graduate student Julien Tournots listing a discovery stating that the Hops and Hemp plants he was testing "would flower the most rapidly when allowed only 6 hours of daylight" ! J.P. and his followers have tested this and reports "that the flowers grew faster then ever before." That is an exciting finding for those of us growing commercially for the medical market. It has a dramatic meaning for all growers.....

You only need courage to try it. I am going to very soon.....Maybe 2 ways. A sliding scale reducing flower lighting times to the 6/18 and a straight 6/18. Saving weeks of flower with a 50% reduction of lights on time is simply to interesting to pass up.

Doc
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bam! thought I was going to read the entire post before I found this. I'm familiar with the 12-1 and was curious to see what the gas lantern thing was lol. a longer dark cycle in flower allows for the photochrome far-red to fall off and the photochrom red (the flower builder) to build up
 
Dr. Who

Dr. Who

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Dynamo626 said:
bam! thought I was going to read the entire post before I found this. I'm familiar with the 12-1 and was curious to see what the gas lantern thing was lol. a longer dark cycle in flower allows for the photochrome far-red to fall off and the photochrom red (the flower builder) to build up
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The fast flowering thing. Did not work anything as well as the GLR for vegging.

Your bloom yield will suffer too much at 8.5 hrs and less, to make any reduced and faster finish not worth the results....Be happy with the GLR and skip the Joe P shit.
 
Dynamo626

Dynamo626

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Dr. Who said:
The fast flowering thing. Did not work anything as well as the GLR for vegging.

Your bloom yield will suffer too much at 8.5 hrs and less, to make any reduced and faster finish not worth the results....Be happy with the GLR and skip the Joe P shit.
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Wow 8.5 is not much. Wouldnt do that. The most dark i would give them is 9 hours and that is only the last week. I didnt see whare someone said that. 12 the first 2 weeks less half hour every week after. Adjust if you have a flower that takes longer than 8 weeks.
 
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