HELP! On vacation timer broke, light cycle raped!

TreeWizard

Active Member
Yeah. So I have about 85 plants that are all in the start of the sixth week of flowering. We left on Weds night, the lights were supposed to turn off the following morning at 11 AM. It's now about 3AM Sunday morning and I just returned to find the dial on the timer never even started its revolution, which means as soon as we plugged it in until now there has been 24 hours of light in one half of the room.

Question is: should I continue flowering, hope not to see any hermies and try to flower them out, or do I crop in the morning? I have some different plants in another room so I'm not trying to spread pollen around the house. Anybody with experience with this specific type of bullshit?

Also, we were planning on taking cuttings when we returned. Given the possibility the plants will go hermie do you think it is safe to take the cuttings? I generally take cuttings this late and have about a 95% success rate, but I don't want to take 200 cuttings that will turn hermie.


Any advice would be fantastic.

Thanks :(
 

Apocalyptic Feasting

Active Member
keep flowering you will not get hermies i guarantee it. the same fucking thing happened to me. using a stupid ass ikea timer. happened to me 40 days into flowering, so yeah about 6 weeks. i didnt have one single problem. you'll be fine.
 

TreeWizard

Active Member
Thanks for the reply man, I have a few questions though:
By how many days was your light cycle interrupted?
How many plants were disturbed by it?

I just wonder whether the large number of plants affected will increase the chances that *one* will hermie. I live in a cold climate so all of my rooms are heated by venting from cooltubes in other rooms when the lights aren't on. I'm sure this will complex the situation.

Do you promise I won't see a single hermie?
Anyone else have experience with fucking up their light cycle?

Thanks
 

ststepen420

Well-Known Member
yeah, just keep going and watch them closely...if you see any signs of a hermie then chop em down, if not just go about business as usual
 

Apocalyptic Feasting

Active Member
dude i guarantee you wont see a hermie. my cycle was interupted for the entire time i was gone so... it was 6 days. if you repeated what you did a few times i think you would have more to worry about, or if you had the 12/12 cycle disrupted for a little longer...over 10 days perhaps...that would increase the chances of a hermie by alot more i think.
 

alexanderdarryl

Active Member
Yeah happen to me too, I have 7th week flowering Island sweet skunk, and I just found out yesterday that the light was on for 24 hours for the past 2 weeks; the timer broke somehow. It started growing new leaves already. I fixed the light schedule and hopefully it will be okay... I'll let u know how it goes.

One thing tho, you may need to extend the flowering period for a few more weeks depending on how many weeks has the light schedule been screwed; mine has been irregular for 2 weeks, so I may have to add another 2 weeks on top of the 10 weeks flowering period... May or may not be true, it is just my common sense, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong...

good luck
 
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