My 8hr flowering experiment
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hillbill
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I'm not sure I said what you thought I said but I am a newbie at 10/14 but I am in.
Hi there fellas new grower here,,,i currently have a auto caramelicious 1 week old sprout on a 6/18 light schedule,,6 hours outdoors,,then 18 hours in my closet completely dark,,,reason im trying this method because i also read that outdoors 6 hours is enough light,,plus im in the caribbean ,,our tropical climate and burning sun should work great,,plant is looking great so far,,,any tips?
yesum
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I assume you never tried it.
torontoke
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The gaslight routine isn't very complex sir.
All it is is 12/12 but with one hour on in the middle of the off cycle.
Hence the nickname 12:1
It keeps the plants on the cusp of flowering usually except most strains will preflower eventually and sativa doms will not really like it.
Your idea of 14/10 will be very similar and I believe that's what ttystick meant.
Depending what strain u may need 14.5 or even 15 hours to keep them "vegging"
Genetics and strain have a lot to do with light cycles and what works for some may not work for others.
Good luck with it and please let us know how it goes im sincerely interested in any results.
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yesum
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Ok, 15 it is then. These will be almost all heirloom sativas, so they flower less readily anyways. If you have not tried 'Relief Factor' you may want to. My Mom takes it for arthritis and I do sometimes. All natural no drugs. I know it will not rebuild your spine or whatever but does help with inflammation quite well.
The way you describe the gaslight makes it seem quite simple now I guess.
The way you describe the gaslight makes it seem quite simple now I guess.
torontoke
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Flowering is triggered by the length of dark period. The idea is to break the long period into two shorter periods so u set the light to come on for one hour in the middle of the dark period.
12on 5.5 off 1on 5.5off
It works and I still use it but it tends to work best on indica doms. Those happen to be my favourite
Never heard of relief factor but I'll look into it for sure thanks.
torontoke
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I couldn't begin to offer any advice given your radically different light source.
I wish I could use Caribbean sun.
My first run/experiment was only 6 hours indoor and from my experience it wasn't long enough.
Now that's not to say it didn't grow bud just not enough for me to recommend it as a viable option considering the amount of lost yield.
Your tropical climate hopefully shows you much better results. If it doesn't work then next time try 8.
I'd love to hear how it goes either way.
Good luck and please keep us posted
zoic
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I am interested how this works out for you. I ran the 2nd grow at 16/8 instead of 18/6 with continuous temps average around 20C. I found they bushed out way more and had much tighter nodes. Every plant in Round 1 was a stringbean
ttystikk
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Surely this isn't the only change you made between runs?
Johnei
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I have grown at times for over 5 years straight using only 16/8, for cloning and for veg/mothers. This promotes more root growth over the tops. I have this book from a decade ago called Advanced Growing or some shit like that. It explains this in great detail and has 3 scientific tests done on growth at different hrs/day. if a strain will not flower under this low light hrs/day(because some might who knows), this works really well. I will be going back to this soon, forever.
flower trigger is quicker as well The long night auxins are built up more. Just me man. I KNOW NOTHING!
(correction-Auxins are not built up more in the plant, because auxins get destroyed as soon as light hits, but the transportation pathways and mechanisms that control this auxin, are, you could say, used and weathered, and the plant gets used to this so pathways are ready for the flower trigger quicker, in my humble opinion this is what I believe.)
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zoic
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No sir. Did some topping and a few were FIMmed. I put them in larger pots early so they would not get pot bound roots. Vegged them in the cooler basement and they are flowering in the tent under 2xMars300 lights. Round 3 is where all the new lights will take the grow to a new level.
Johnei
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The plant near the tree. NICE.. myco's maybe tree will share. 
Amazing soil right there near that tree I bet. Good job. Good decision that spot.
I like it.
edit- and right on the slope from ground, and tree trunk where water will drop
love it bro.. perfect spot in my oponion, depending on light of course, which I think you have no problem with that I can see. Awesome. I'm jelouos..lol I need to go bushwacking.
maybe tree will share. Amazing soil right there near that tree I bet. Good job. Good decision that spot.
I like it.
edit- and right on the slope from ground, and tree trunk where water will drop
love it bro.. perfect spot in my oponion, depending on light of course, which I think you have no problem with that I can see. Awesome. I'm jelouos..lol I need to go bushwacking.
torontoke
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A lot of planning went into those spots for all the reasons u listed.The plant near the tree. NICE.. myco's
Amazing soil right there near that tree I bet. Good job. Good decision that spot.
I like it.
edit- and right on the slope from ground, and tree trunk where water will drop
love it bro.. perfect spot in my oponion, depending on light of course, which I think you have no problem with that I can see. Awesome. I'm jelouos..lol I need to go bushwacking.
Decades of oak and other trees season changes has left the ground with a perfect organic mix.
Added a lil bio char to the mix and these have been fairly self sufficient.
Bushwacking is a fun way to burn some time. Can be worthwhile too if u find good usable spots