24 hour or 20/4 or 18/6 in Veg??

On my fourth CFL grow each is more succesful than the last. I've always gone 24 for veg and recently 12.5-11.5 flower. Any advantage to going 20/4 or 18/6 veg? Also read that when you're ready to flower give the plants 24 darkness berore 12/12(or 12.5-11.5 in my case) to help trigger the "budding" hormone(triggered by dark) to speed up the flowering time...any experience...comments?

my plants always respond best to 18/6

yeah id go 18-6, not sure they can use more,yeah leaving them in dark for longer does seem to get them started quicker.

I personally use my own method.

I'll usually start with a 24/0 schedule..

but as the days go by.. I will slowly work

the schedule down to a 18/6 time.

I know, its' probably not worth it to some

of you..


But it helps i think.. slowly reducing the 'Lights ON' time... mainly because it lets
the plant slowly get use to the change as
well ya dig? This way.. you have a less chance of giving the plant stress... less chance of having other problems further into your grow.

Now, I'm not saying you should take the
word "reducing" as if lets say... When I was speaking about slowly reducing the 'LIGHTS ON' time... I was meaning.. I would take about 2 hours off a day.. ya dig?

I'm going to go take a quick nap cool? k.
be back in a few everyone.
................. ...................45 minutes later.

Sorry if anything I said.. made no sense at all...and if it was hard to follow. I'm tore up from the floor up ya dig? lol.

Peace.

Thanks gonna try slowly cutting back to 18/6.

Make sense...in nature they are in the dark at night...my 24/0 days are over!

i just potted up my germinated seed last night stuck em under 2 11w compact flours apparetly with a 2700k spectrum and when i woke up they had already crept out of the soil and i can just bout see the first 2 leavs comming out of the shell,i also had the problem of that thought but i just chose 20/4,also i must be stoned because my plant is only a seedling and alot of people said 24/0 for the first week but i dnt wanna cause stress to my little 1.

they say 24/0 the first week or so because the plant can't store enough energy for 6 hours early in its life cycle.

Brick Top said:

Some people say more light = more growth …. but they do not understand how plants work.
　
During hours of light plants multitask. They take in as much energy from light as they can and they allocate it to numerous functions, storage of energy for operation during hours of dark is one of those functions. Because the total amount of energy is split up between so many functions some do not receive much energy.
　
During hours of darkness plants stop multitasking and while running on stored energy allocate all their energy to just several main most important functions. One of them is growth. During hours of darkness plants receive an increased amount of energy to use for growth. They grow faster and more efficient during hours of darkness because of it. Have you ever looked at your plants shortly before lights out and then again shortly after the lights come on again the next day and the night before there was plenty of room between the tops of your plants and your light but by morning your plants have grown way to close or even into your lights? Ever wonder how and why that happens?
　
What is the logic in taking away the 6 most productive most efficient hours of growth a plant can have and replace it with 6 hours of less productive less efficient growth by leaving the light on?

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This is spot on IMO, very good advice, in my experience 18/6 works best and also i never give them a 24 hr darkness before flower u simply change the lights to 12 hours on after the last 6 hr darkness, thats it, and on average my plants show there female pistils at around 5-6 days and never had one sex later than 7 days.

6 ppl will have 6 diferant oponions