My 8hr flowering experiment

torontoke

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I was thinking about starting a new thread altogether but I actually like that mine is quiet and more of a journal now.
And as much excitement as I have for these quantum boards I'm not advertising for them since they are already out of stock. They don't need my help or feedback selling these things. I am however anxious to upgrade my veg tent light asap.

The seedlings are now hitting what I'd call "plant" stage so I will be putting them on glr tomorrow and I'm hoping that they all pre flower and get bushy from being topped in the next 30-40days.
I can't see the flowering plants taking longer then that.
 
torontoke

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GroErr said:
The 8/16 doesn't seem to slow down flower development at all, looks about right maturity for Day 18 from flip, nice.
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Thank you sir
But sssshjhhh
U can't say that stuff out loud or u will be called crazy or told ur believing "broscience"

Honestly tho these plants are blowing my mind. Not only does development look on par but I can't even show it in pics yet but I've never seen lower buds as frosty and dense already.

The original experiment was based off an article saying if you give the plants "too much" light for a shorter period you can speed up flowering using less hours and I believe I've found the secret ingredient
 
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GroErr

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torontoke said:
Thank you sir
But sssshjhhh
U can't say that stuff out loud or u will be called crazy or told ur believing "broscience"

Honestly tho these plants are blowing my mind. Not only does development look on par but I can't even show it in pics yet but I've never seen lower buds as frosty and dense already.

The original experiment was based off an article saying if you give the plants "too much" light for a shorter period you can speed up flowering using less hours and I believe I've found the secret ingredient
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Fk'it, I've been called a lot worse - lol There's plenty of evidence out there that reduced (anything less than the standard 12/12) light cycles can and do have effects on flowering and expression of certain traits depending on the amount and length of flowering light. That's not bro-science. What we need is what you're doing here, putting it to practical use and understanding the effects in the real world.

I'll be trying different cycle times slowly reducing them to see what effects I get in my own environment. I have a good set of clones that I'll be keeping cycled so I can see the effects on yield, quality, terps, frost with known (control) phenos. My driver is always quality, if I can get the same or better quality with reduced light cycle times, I'd gladly give up a bit of yield and it's not looking like a huge loss there either.
 
torontoke

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GroErr said:
Fk'it, I've been called a lot worse - lol There's plenty of evidence out there that reduced (anything less than the standard 12/12) light cycles can and do have effects on flowering and expression of certain traits depending on the amount and length of flowering light. That's not bro-science. What we need is what you're doing here, putting it to practical use and understanding the effects in the real world.

I'll be trying different cycle times slowly reducing them to see what effects I get in my own environment. I have a good set of clones that I'll be keeping cycled so I can see the effects on yield, quality, terps, frost with known (control) phenos. My driver is always quality, if I can get the same or better quality with reduced light cycle times, I'd gladly give up a bit of yield and it's not looking like a huge loss there either.
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Exactly how I feel about it.
And I thought that the last couple runs were catching up yield wise and that the loses were becoming more and more acceptable for my situation anyway. But this light has changed my end goal.
Not only should it give me a comparable yield but the quality already looks better at day 18 so it goes without saying that I'm excited.
 
GroErr

GroErr

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torontoke said:
Exactly how I feel about it.
And I thought that the last couple runs were catching up yield wise and that the loses were becoming more and more acceptable for my situation anyway. But this light has changed my end goal.
Not only should it give me a comparable yield but the quality already looks better at day 18 so it goes without saying that I'm excited.
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For sure, the LED's (at least COBs and the QB's) fit perfectly into this environment. Since LED's are relatively new for you I'm betting those QB's will blow you away in both quality and yield. it's looking that way already :)
 
torontoke

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pinner420 said:
Yep... the preprogrammed setting is called quick flower as they do this regularly in new zeland.
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Nice
Sounds interesting
How many hours on is this setting?
What strain are you planning to run?

It's been mentioned here and noticed by myself and others that indicas and Indy Doms take better to glr and reduced cycles but it also makes satys finish quicker too
 
torontoke

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pinner420 said:
http://www.harvest-master.com/testimonials.html

I can set it however but these are the factory ones.
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Very cool
The idea of 6/12 has intrigued me for years. Shortening the entire day cycle should chop major time off. The only drawback would be that your on and off times would fluctuate and if u live somewhere that has a different rate u may find urself paying more. The price per kW here is almost double during the day what it is at night.

I thought that 6/18 wasn't long enough so I switched to 8/16.

I can't wait to follow along and see how it goes
 
torontoke

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pinner420 said:
Im eyeballing the autocobs 55watt singles drops i found a guy getting 2 grams a watt on the regular... jack herer and black rose.
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Cool
I've never heard of those.
I'm new to the led game. But I'm never going back lol

Not really going for maximum gram per watt myself. Getting as many great grams for as little watts as possible is more important to me.
But to each their own.
 
pinner420

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torontoke said:
Cool
I've never heard of those.
I'm new to the led game. But I'm never going back lol

Not really going for maximum gram per watt myself. Getting as many great grams for as little watts as possible is more important to me.
But to each their own.
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Especially for 55 watts per 2 sqft.
 
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