12/12 Light Leaks

i'm aware of hermaphrodites homie thought you were confused on pollination. female plants that hermie do not pollinate themselves they develop male characteristics and create pollen

Hi. I've just made my first sensible set-up and my 6 way plug adapter has switches with orange lights to indicate on/off. Has anyone made this mistake before? Some of the cables are short so it's hard to move. Do I really have to build a box, put a curtain around it or buy another 6 way adapter? My cf/ph/temp sensor also has a backlit display. So I need to move that as well, right?

Light leak is not a myth

The reason why outdoor plants dont hermi from moonlight is because they are in the intense sunlight all day so the comparatively weak source of moonlight has no effect on them

Their is a big difference from growing indoors under artificial light and having light leaks then their is growing outdoors under the very intense sun and not so intense moonlight

wasteddragon said:

Hi. I've just made my first sensible set-up and my 6 way plug adapter has switches with orange lights to indicate on/off. Has anyone made this mistake before? Some of the cables are short so it's hard to move. Do I really have to build a box, put a curtain around it or buy another 6 way adapter? My cf/ph/temp sensor also has a backlit display. So I need to move that as well, right?

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ive got the same ones! there a right pain, i just covered them up with black duct tape! not sure if the orange light would affect plants but wasn't taken any chances.

okay thanks. i was hoping the little lights on the 6 way might not be enough to make a difference, but better safe than sorry.

Rj41 said:

This is one of those things you'll have to find out for yourself. As you're seeing, some will say no light leaks while others will say a little bit won't hurt. I feel it's fiction that light leaks cause hermies, because as you said they're not in complete darkness outdoors. That would mean EVERY outdoor plant would be a hermie, and they're not. Light leaks will slow down the maturing process of the plant though, just like moonlight causes outdoor plants to take longer to mature.

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Just curious how would moonlight slow down the grow process?ive read here on RIU it doesn't produce enough
light to put a plant back in veg state I forget the measurement the guy was giving on the mmoonlight on a full moon

In the wild, the brightest light nature will give it at night is a full moon. Thats only a couple of days a month. In general, anything about half the brightness of a full moon or above will affect the plant. Pitch blackness is the ideal to work towards, anything less and things could be affected.

Keep in mind when a plant goes hermie, it does so not because its a freak, but because it feels as though its at risk and so works on survival/continuing the chain of creation. So plants do hermie in the wild, absolutely, more often than people think. Nature evolved that option as plausible for a plant thats desperate to continue its species in a poor breeding situation.