I'm just a noob but I'm ready to question certain aspects of mj growing gospel that smell like myths to me.
...Like the one that says "total pitch-black darkness is necessary in the dark period of 12/12, or you'll stress the plant & it'll hermie".
Of course, I'm striving for as dark a cab as I can build, but I'm thinking that logically, if it's dark enough that the plant can't photosynthesize at all, that's probably dark enough.
After all, plants don't have eyes and nervous systems that are going to respond hypersensitively to any faint little glow in their grow box. And in the natural world the night sky often has moonlight & starlight. If mj was stressed by faint glows it wouldn't have survived & evolved long enough to remain here for us to love it.
I have a feeling that the "total darkness" thing grew out of a misinterpretation of the fact that they need uninterrupted (i.e. "total") darkness during the flower dark period. Like, don't turn the lights on for a half hour & get them photosynthesizing again because that "wake up" call will indeed confuse their hormones.
If I have a few small holes in my cab that leak light outwards when the growlights are on it might ruin stealth -- but that doesn't mean the small amount of light that thus gets in during the 12/12 dark period is going to ruin the plant.
There are lots of myths out there. Is "total darkness" one of them?
...Like the one that says "total pitch-black darkness is necessary in the dark period of 12/12, or you'll stress the plant & it'll hermie".
Of course, I'm striving for as dark a cab as I can build, but I'm thinking that logically, if it's dark enough that the plant can't photosynthesize at all, that's probably dark enough.
After all, plants don't have eyes and nervous systems that are going to respond hypersensitively to any faint little glow in their grow box. And in the natural world the night sky often has moonlight & starlight. If mj was stressed by faint glows it wouldn't have survived & evolved long enough to remain here for us to love it.
I have a feeling that the "total darkness" thing grew out of a misinterpretation of the fact that they need uninterrupted (i.e. "total") darkness during the flower dark period. Like, don't turn the lights on for a half hour & get them photosynthesizing again because that "wake up" call will indeed confuse their hormones.
If I have a few small holes in my cab that leak light outwards when the growlights are on it might ruin stealth -- but that doesn't mean the small amount of light that thus gets in during the 12/12 dark period is going to ruin the plant.
There are lots of myths out there. Is "total darkness" one of them?