shitty situation?

ok so i just got home and i wasnt home at all yesterday. so i learned that there was a power out from noon to 5 in the mornin, my veg and my flower box turn on at noon. the veg turns off at 6 am and the flower at midnight.( i hope this doesnt complicate anyone..lol) im not to concerned about the veg box cause i just germ some good seeds and i wasnt too far into with it. but the flower box im alil worried about! so basically heres what happened. instead of turning on at noon it stayed off till 5 am the next day, the power returned and the 12 hours of light started and ended at 5 pm today! well it 8 pm now and i had to turn them back on and reset the timers. i would have let it run from 5am to 5pm but if i let it do that it would creat alot of light leaks because the ambeint light is on untill about 11pm. thats why i run noon till midnight. how much damage might i expect from this little incident? and does any one know were to get those electric power backups for a good price?
i hope that im not being to confusing
thanks

The worst thing about power outs is that you have to reset all your timers, otherwise I wouldn't worry to much. Just go back to your regular schedule.

Depending on what sort of power usage your room has it can be very difficult to have backup power. UPS don't usually last long enough, unless you have a very small grow with CFL's.

Generators are tricky cause you need to be home when the power goes out to turn it on, or you need an auto start one, which means you'll need a auto transfer switch connected to your house so you don't back-feed the power lines. That has to be done by an electrician.

yea i am thinking about maybe having 4 or 5 cfls that are only hooked up to the ups that way if power goes out i can at least have 100 to 150 watts of light on them, i know its not much but it be better than no light. i was think about doing it that way so it can run long cause its not getting 600 watts sucked out of it, and ends up only running for asn hour! see were i live its prone to power outs, its not crazy or anything but in winter we get mad ice. i had three power outs this winter. so i need to do something but just like every onhe else i find the budget in damn near non existing!

I have the same problem in my area but with heat instead of ice... I thought of doing the same thing with the CFL's but once you add air pumps, water pumps and fans I dont think it would run long enough to be worth it, if you find a suitable solution please let me know.

what im thinking of doing is adding 4 or 5 26 watt cfls (depending the power of the backup i choose) to my current light setup, but they wouldnt be on they would be on standby and hooked directly up to a power backup. i will do this with both boxes. so when the power goes out i know that there is brand new light bulbs that will fire up and provide some light. if i can find a power backup thats can store more power and run longer i would then of course add more light, the only thing i might need two ups per box( set up to run only one at a time to lengthen time), because when the power goes out it stays out at least 5 hours and as i just learned can stay out for almost a full day or more!! ill figure it out more when i start to shop for the backups.
any one have any suggestions?? this pic is my first indoor grow and about a week and a half into flowering there was two outages in two days in a row, each lasting at least 5 hours, about 4-5 days after i found nuts on about all the bud sites. luckily i had cloned them and was able to put rooted clones right into flower to fill in the space!!!!


any suggestions would be wonderful!!! this is priority number one for me right now

peace!!

oh shit lostinspace! that sucks seeing how ur doin hydro you sort of need more then lights to be on! im doin soil, and i figure if i only use a few cfls i wont need the fans to run! maybe you could go get smaller, less powerful water and air pumps and what ever else you need and hook them up to be on standby only! that way you are still disolving oxy in ur water and still pumping water, just it would be as much as normal!! you know whta i mean like go get the least powerful parts that can at least hold you over till power is back????? do you know what i meen?????

Yep, thats why I haven't done anything about it yet.... Like I said if the power goes out, too bad. I think the power would have to go out for a couple of days to really affect it, I hope anyway

kiddcuruption said:

what im thinking of doing is adding 4 or 5 26 watt cfls (depending the power of the backup i choose) to my current light setup, but they wouldnt be on they would be on standby and hooked directly up to a power backup. i will do this with both boxes. so when the power goes out i know that there is brand new light bulbs that will fire up and provide some light. if i can find a power backup thats can store more power and run longer i would then of course add more light, the only thing i might need two ups per box( set up to run only one at a time to lengthen time), because when the power goes out it stays out at least 5 hours and as i just learned can stay out for almost a full day or more!! ill figure it out more when i start to shop for the backups.
any one have any suggestions?? this pic is my first indoor grow and about a week and a half into flowering there was two outages in two days in a row, each lasting at least 5 hours, about 4-5 days after i found nuts on about all the bud sites. luckily i had cloned them and was able to put rooted clones right into flower to fill in the space!!!!


any suggestions would be wonderful!!! this is priority number one for me right now

peace!!

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You sure they werent just males? Its usually pretty hard to get a plant to go hermie, especially if it was JUST put into flower. They were definetly female before the outages? I have a feeling your clones may go herm/male too...

SenorSanteria said:

You sure they werent just males? Its usually pretty hard to get a plant to go hermie, especially if it was JUST put into flower. They were definetly female before the outages? I have a feeling your clones may go herm/male too...

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That thought had crossed my mind when I read that post but we were on a different issue, maybe some pics are needed for confirmation?

no they were females they only had littl buds, when i say a week and a half into flowering i mean a week and a half after they had tiny buds on all the brances( sorry should have metioned that) i know i never heard of plants herming out that quick!! heres what happend though the lights wer on for a few hours then the power went out and when it cam back on the light was on for another 2 to 3 hours, and this happened two days in a row. so the light sched. was something like this---12 off-3 on- 5 off- 4on- 12 off- 4 on-6 off- 2 on- 12 off, then back to 12/12!!! and actuall 3 clones i gave my brother hermed out but he was doing shit to them during the dark periods, and had light leaks!!! the 12 clones i kept not a single one hermed out! and i just cut them last week.
i didnt think that it wasnt to common for them to herm out so fast, i prob would have let them grow if it happend later on in the flower stage but i know if it was showing nut that soon it prob wouldnt produce much good shit. it was the first time i even seen a hermie but im 100% sure it was. and it wasnt like they were all over the place but there was at least one on just about every branch!!!
if you guys want i will post pics of clones well into flowering, and try to find pics of mothers with the small buds? i know i dont have pics of the nuts because i wasnt to worried about taking pics of a tranny plant. like i said im 100% sure they were herms.

You could use a digital timer with battery back-up(AA), at least that way it will keep the right cycle, you know what I mean?

yea as far as the timer is concerned, but i got to have somekind of back for lights, because theres a good chance of it happening a few times throughout the winter and were i live cars crash into poles, ice snaps line. and if it gets really bad itll take the elect co a while to fix it. i guess im alil parinoid about it but winter is comming to an end and i can always take them outside if the weather permits. butt i am def. looking at my options for back up power. i really only need it for the grow op. power outs dont really bother me as fars as anything else concerns, i dont use elect for any other utilitys