teddy westside
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im just about to switch the northern lights to 12/12 even though shes started flowering already, am i right in thinking i need to keep the "sun up" time the same?
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smokey de bear
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Ye I just flip em and make sure they get at leasst 12 hours of light but not more, your using a light I dont think the sun up or down time matters as long as the duration of the light is 12 hrs and continuous at the same time day in day out. So for example my veg room is on from 6am till 12am, and my Flower room is on from 2pm-2am I dunno why I chose those times but half is on peak time for hydro and half isn't. Other factors for me anyways is the time of year outside because in the winter ill run more at night to keep up the temps.
KMacker420
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I have changed to 12/12 from 18/6 gradually and immediatly, and did'nt notice a difference in quality or quanity
TwistedReaction
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May be a little soon after my transplant, but all my plants after continued growing bigger and bigger... no shock.
Sooo i gave in and put them onto 12/12 this morning. 7am to 7pm. That way i can keep eyes on them in the morning before work and after work till 7. Then at night it will be dark. Summer so temps at night are hot.
Going to pick up my bloom nutrients today now that iv switched to 12/12.
Hope it goes well!
Sooo i gave in and put them onto 12/12 this morning. 7am to 7pm. That way i can keep eyes on them in the morning before work and after work till 7. Then at night it will be dark. Summer so temps at night are hot.
Going to pick up my bloom nutrients today now that iv switched to 12/12.
Hope it goes well!
smokey de bear
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Nice man, that's exactly it as long as you see them growing giver. Hell I was topping mine a day later they usually don't take long at all from a transplant, it's more of a dumb period for the roots before they realize they ain't container bound no more and can spread out roots.
7-7pm that looks like a good time especially with your schedule, most ppl find a 12 hour chunk which fits their routine. Like I know I wouldn't be able to do 7-7pm cause I'm a night person and from 7pm - bedtime I would be so temped to check on em lol, So I find times when I'm awak with em I am less likely to open em up while they're sleeping. I like them to have roughly the same bed time as I so that they're up or just about to go to bed when I do (I get to tuck them in) then in the AM when I wake up by the time I'm ready to care for them they turned on and I don't have to worry about no green lights.
Which is something else I don't really get if flowering plants are soooooo sensitive to light after dark, how do they do it in the wild? It's never fully dark in the bush especially on full moons or clear skies, so how bad exactly is it if you have pin hole sized light leaks? I can understand if you turned on your light because your plants have learned that it is the sun, so in the wild if the sun goes up and down like that randomly I would Hermie too lol, but tiny pin hole leaks wouldn't they just be seen as stars to the plant.
7-7pm that looks like a good time especially with your schedule, most ppl find a 12 hour chunk which fits their routine. Like I know I wouldn't be able to do 7-7pm cause I'm a night person and from 7pm - bedtime I would be so temped to check on em lol, So I find times when I'm awak with em I am less likely to open em up while they're sleeping. I like them to have roughly the same bed time as I so that they're up or just about to go to bed when I do (I get to tuck them in) then in the AM when I wake up by the time I'm ready to care for them they turned on and I don't have to worry about no green lights.
Which is something else I don't really get if flowering plants are soooooo sensitive to light after dark, how do they do it in the wild? It's never fully dark in the bush especially on full moons or clear skies, so how bad exactly is it if you have pin hole sized light leaks? I can understand if you turned on your light because your plants have learned that it is the sun, so in the wild if the sun goes up and down like that randomly I would Hermie too lol, but tiny pin hole leaks wouldn't they just be seen as stars to the plant.
I don't think they are that sensitive to small, non-routine light leaks during the dark period either.
But then again, I have the ability to make it completely dark, so that's what I do.
No sense in tempting fate.
But then again, I have the ability to make it completely dark, so that's what I do.
No sense in tempting fate.
TwistedReaction
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Yea man, i know what you mean... It's like some guy plants a crop near a road and if a car drives past during the night he gets a hermi
Suppose not tempting fate is a good plan... I do feel like checkin them out during the night but it's cool.. In a month or two they will be curing. Cant wait! Till then i needa brush up on my flowering info and make sure the males get tossed.. still cant really see if they male or female or both :/ sucks..
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