Timer is fucked during flowering.

Ok, so basically I'm broke and I decided to buy a cheap 20$ timer from Zellers. Our plant has been on 12/12 for a month exactly today and its completely scragging and not growing a lot of hairs. We recently figured out that our timer is worse then nothing because it kept fucking up and not doing 12/12.

I'm buying a new timer asap in the mean time I'm manually changing lights on and off.
I just want to know if I get a new timer and it works good will the plant turn out as good or did it get wrecked because we had it on a completely random light cycle for about 2 weeks.

The timer has done its damage. Its not the end of the story but its not good either. Plant flowering time will probably just be extended. Also watch for hermies for form.

Just a note on what I use:

When I was looking over the various timers on the market I could not believe how expensive such a simple devise can be. Being on a low budget, and not liking what I was seeing, I bopped on down to Home Depot to see what I could rig up or find. What I ended up with was purchasing several of the timers that are used to turn electric hot water heaters on and off. ( they use them to conserve energy during off time hours ) I think I paid around $50.00 per unit. I run 3 separate banks of lamps each with (2) 400 watt lamps. ( 6 lamps total ). I love these beasties. Heavy duty, simple to program, can control 120 or 240 v systems. Had them on continous use for 2 years now without a single problem.,

Just thought you might want to know

I don't have a timer either, I've also been personally turning the lights on and off. I just did 24/0 before. So Idk about timers, but as long as you have an alarm on a phone and ABSOLUTELY make it to the lights within like 5 minutes of yourself every time, you'll be fine.

Plants are used to living outside, and days differ day by day in sunlight. Every single day is linger or shorter than the one before in terms of sunlight. So a plant doesn't really care(unless you blatantly forget). And mine had green pistils before, but the white ones are coming out. So if they work out all the way, that is evidence enough for me.

a cheap timer is not something u want. its worth the extra money to have something that is not going to break. got mine at home depot for about 28 bucks..go digital also

I got a old timer from like 1980 that works, i'm throwing the old broken timer off a cliff.