My 8hr flowering experiment

SSGrower

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working on the 20 hour day arduino clock and though I am still confident it can be done....it will need to be done by someone who knows how to use a data array. Basically need to set up a calendar for days that are 72000 seconds long, I fell asleep 3 times already today trying to figure it out, I give.
 
torontoke

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SSGrower said:
working on the 20 hour day arduino clock and though I am still confident it can be done....it will need to be done by someone who knows how to use a data array. Basically need to set up a calendar for days that are 72000 seconds long, I fell asleep 3 times already today trying to figure it out, I give.
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U put forward a valiant effort I'm sure.
I've been told by a few people just how big of a task the programming of those things can be.
Would be a trade off of programming labour versus cost to just set up a small plc.
Either way I'm sure there's an even simpler way to do it and I've got time for such an idea to present itself.
Thanks for letting me know tho and saving me from buying something to break in a frustrated rage.
 
SSGrower

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torontoke said:
U put forward a valiant effort I'm sure.
I've been told by a few people just how big of a task the programming of those things can be.
Would be a trade off of programming labour versus cost to just set up a small plc.
Either way I'm sure there's an even simpler way to do it and I've got time for such an idea to present itself.
Thanks for letting me know tho and saving me from buying something to break in a frustrated rage.
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Valiant my ass!

Self serving is more like it.:bigjoint:

The idea is still rattling around, Id really like to experiment with length of day.
 
torontoke

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Well today is day 50 so time to wipe it all down and start over.
Super indica run number 1
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3 dank Sinatra
2lucky charms
2more cowbell
1 field trip

Crossing my fingers for at least 6 females and hopefully a dank Sinatra male.
I'm 80% sure the biggest ds is a male but we shall see.
 
torontoke

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Well in keeping with my open honest approach I noticed two things when chopping the revegged plants.
Firstly I should have done much much more defoliation and lollipoping to clean up the lowers. Think ten times the amount of bs fluff bud at the bottoms.
However one perk to revegging that I never even considered was that these plants being as old as the are have self seeded some of their lowers. Hopefully that means some grandpasbreath and space monkey s1's after they dry n cure.
Should come in handy since I finally cut them both down for good.
This time space monkey yielded a bit better but still no where near as much as gpb or even ft.
 
torontoke

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Lucky you, our indoor harvest is almost 90 days out, although I am having a fresh cured sample from one of our group's other grows tonight.
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Need to find yourself some shorter running strains. Unless of course your happy with those. Your a much more patient person then I either way.
 
SSGrower

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torontoke said:
Can't say that I blame u for liking the idea I think it makes a lot of sense too.
Think it would speed them up?
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Kind of, I think....mostly I think it would alow the plant to be more effecient, Do you notice faster veg using glr?

I havve been thinking of a 20 hour day 16/4 and 10/10. Less than 16 hrs seemed to be the bottom edge for veg but having then ability to shorten the night might alow for further reduction without going into flower, possibly resulting in fewer kw•hr used.

I ran at night last winter and it sucked, more like work than a hobby because of timing. The rotating day night would be tough to get used to.
 
torontoke

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SSGrower said:
Kind of, I think....mostly I think it would alow the plant to be more effecient, Do you notice faster veg using glr?

I havve been thinking of a 20 hour day 16/4 and 10/10. Less than 16 hrs seemed to be the bottom edge for veg but having then ability to shorten the night might alow for further reduction without going into flower, possibly resulting in fewer kw•hr used.

I ran at night last winter and it sucked, more like work than a hobby because of timing. The rotating day night would be tough to get used to.
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I'm not sure I'd ever say a faster veg.
I've never done a clone of the same strain under each method to gauge the differences.
I will say that the tighter nodes and early preflowering seems to cause the transition from veg to flower to be noticeably quicker.
Some strains can take up to a week to start flowering. I notice it in 3days on average.
 
ttystikk

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SSGrower said:
Kind of, I think....mostly I think it would alow the plant to be more effecient, Do you notice faster veg using glr?

I havve been thinking of a 20 hour day 16/4 and 10/10. Less than 16 hrs seemed to be the bottom edge for veg but having then ability to shorten the night might alow for further reduction without going into flower, possibly resulting in fewer kw•hr used.

I ran at night last winter and it sucked, more like work than a hobby because of timing. The rotating day night would be tough to get used to.
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That could be solved with a system that waters automatically, like RDWC.
 
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