Photoperiod flucuation! Someone tell me it's going to be ok!

lovestospooj · Dec 23, 2012

Hi All,
Long story shot... i have 4 4x4 trays with 1000w over each. two trays have been in flower for 4 weeks. The third has been in one week and i just filled the forth tray on saturday. The problem is i didn't relaize that the timer for the forth light was switched to the on position. So the forth light was left on for one entire 24 hour period. Luckily I noticed it was on the very next day. But the light was still on for a whole night. The plants that are four weeks into bud where not directly under the light that was on they were about 15 ft. across the room.
So i guess my question is how is this going to affect the plants that are four weeks in?
I'm sure they might make a couple seeds now but is one day enough to stop flowering and induce vegetative growth even when it's not direct light???

puffdatchronic · Dec 23, 2012

yes man it will be gravy.

happened to me once .. its continued stress you gotta avoid.. a little blip is fine... its a strong plant.

hotrodharley · Dec 23, 2012

It might slow the flowering a bit but I'm betting you will be fine.

lovestospooj · Dec 23, 2012

puffdatchronic said:
yes man it will be gravy.

happened to me once .. its continued stress you gotta avoid.. a little blip is fine... its a strong plant.

Thanks for the optimism guys. I was really upset considering I just started fresh with some dutch pasiion blueberry, white widow, mazzarishariff, og kush, cheese candy, holy grail 69, auto amnesia. I'll keep everyone posted to see which strains are more affected by the fluctuation. I figure there has to be some affect but i hope it doesn't slow me down too much.

puffdatchronic · Dec 23, 2012

trust me one night wont effect it...it will slow your flowering down a day maybe.. sure some peeps put them into 36 hours dark to start flowering quicker..same thing aint it ,an unnatural light cycle..as long as you dont keep doing it once or even twice will be ok..honest

thats a nice line up btw let us know how the holy grail turns out.

kingmat8787 · Dec 24, 2012

Yea i wouldent Freak out about seeds, i dont think One night of a light cycle change that is dilligently fixed will cause herming. just stay on your path and im sure you'll be allright.

Young Contemporary Peter · Dec 24, 2012

Hope things turn out well.

Check out my current grow, last page shows most recent pictures.
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RedWhiteBlueGreen · Dec 24, 2012

Yeah, i agree with most here - its good ur were vigilant & i don't think 1 night of 8hrs extra light would cause them to hermie - they might at most be slightly stressed & slow growth for a day but otherwise i reckon it should still be cool. I'm hoping i'm not wrong for u anyway man as they sound sweet strains indeed & sounds an interesting set-up too!

But to answer u about how much it would effect, certainly the plants don't need to be under the light to be affected. If u'd accidentally left it say a week or so then they would definitely reveg/hermie/flip-out mental, as any light source more than a relatively small amount of lumens will register when it hits their leaves at night -promixity to light source in that size space is irrelevant sadly.

lovestospooj · Jan 10, 2013

RedWhiteBlueGreen said:
Yeah, i agree with most here - its good ur were vigilant & i don't think 1 night of 8hrs extra light would cause them to hermie - they might at most be slightly stressed & slow growth for a day but otherwise i reckon it should still be cool. I'm hoping i'm not wrong for u anyway man as they sound sweet strains indeed & sounds an interesting set-up too!

But to answer u about how much it would effect, certainly the plants don't need to be under the light to be affected. If u'd accidentally left it say a week or so then they would definitely reveg/hermie/flip-out mental, as any light source more than a relatively small amount of lumens will register when it hits their leaves at night -promixity to light source in that size space is irrelevant sadly.

Well it has been 3 weeks since the fluctuation occurred. The 12th of jan will be 7 whole weeks in. Conditions have been perfect and the plants are so healthy that they definitely didn't slow down. Buds are undeniably getting bigger by the day. It was almost safe to say i dodged a bullet until today... all the strains and phenos are fine except for the blueberry pheno with the biggest bud(but not the best smelling) is showing male staminate... intersexed on me(not to me confused with hermi)! Damn near every bud on it has one or two even the top bud! Needless to say i pulled it the hell out of the room. Now i don't know what to do. I've heard of this product called ethylene plant hormone that will turn the staminate back into pistil. Has anyone had any experience with this hormone and would it work in my case. I'm going to attach some pics of this plant so everyone can see what im dealing with. I don't want to harvest yet because it has a lot of bulking to do but i can't keep it with everything else for fear of pollination. Anyone have any insight?

Photoperiod flucuation! Someone tell me it's going to be ok!

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