I have my plants on4k watts hps 24 hrs but power went out for 12 hours and its -2 out. It finally came on and then plants are all drooped. They look like they're starting to come a live again. But I'm hoping this doesn't affect them or even kill some off. How will that long cold timeframe affect my plants?
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Detroitstyle
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They should be fine, any idea how cold the room was with no lights on?
Mr. Solo Dolo 420
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Depending on how old they were it could give them a higher percentage to hermie on you, but they shouldn't die on you if you got the temperature back up to ideal.
Other than risk of hermie, they'll probably just be stunted a few days after you put the lights back on, then they should grow like normal.
Other than risk of hermie, they'll probably just be stunted a few days after you put the lights back on, then they should grow like normal.
dannyboy602
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that's crazy. its a myth.
Yeah, stress doesn't cause hermie....
Nullis
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For most people when you loose power, you also have no home heating unless you have a fireplace/woodstove or something you can ignite manually (even most of the newer pellet stoves require electricity to vent). With subzero temperatures outside it could get pretty cold indoors without any heat/power.
Depending on strain, a pot plant could endure 40* temperatures for some time, and even a night below freezing probably wouldn't kill them.
Where I live, a personal generator and stockpile of fuel is a must this time of year. Highly recommended for anybody who can think back to a time when their power went out for a prolonged period without any clue as to when crews would be around to restore it.
no clue
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If the cold hasn't killed them it will slow them down for sure. Nothing you can do about that but watch for hermies. Last winter my room got too cold and I hermied 3 different strains. Stress = hermies in that case
. I never let my room get below 65 degrees during lights out now.
. I never let my room get below 65 degrees during lights out now.
topfuel29
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They'll be okay, it was for only 12 hours. They got a little stressed, they weren't hardened off for the cold.
Good Luck on Your Grow.
no clue
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I am fairly certain he is growing these plants inside. So "hardening off" will have nothing to do with it
tallstraw
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Shut the fuck up
Blitzedgrowkid08
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This is supposed to be helpful community, regardless of how u feel because of what someone said doesn't warrant that response my buddy. Keep it real give ur HELPFUL 2 cents or dnt say nothing. Thank you
waterdawg
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Yup!!!! Anyhoo, My shed gets down to 50-55 almost every day when the lights are off and I very rarely have it above 75 lights on. Is this perfect? Probably not but I'm a cheap MF and hate to use electricity lol. Do my plants suffer maybe a bit but I have never had slime, mold, and not to many insects. My last run was 6 Critical Kush and I averaged just under 6 oz. with a 10 week cycle. I have had plants freeze though! Last year the power was out for 12 hours at -20 outside and the plants died, it won't take long to know they are dead BTW lol.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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tallstraw:
Can you explain why you disagree with Solo Dolo, as his comment seemed reasonable to me, are we missing something?
Dr. Jekyll
You really come across like an uneducated asshole with such an ignorant reply. Most decent people would consider your comment as rude and unwarranted, with zero value so maybe you could do us all a favor and just fuck-off and die.
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CaretakerDad
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WRONG!!!! Hardening off is the process used to acclimate plants grown in a protected (indoor) environment to the outdoors prior to leaving them out permanently. The fact is that they WEREN'T hardened off and that is most likely what caused the droopy appearance.
tallstraw
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I come qcross like the uneducated asshole? But the guy spouting off out the mouth about one of the dumbest things I've heard and probably heard it in passing. And decided to pass on said 'helpful' info isnt? This is the problem with the community, any and everyone says whatever they want truthful or not, 90% of them never having put it into practice or seen it or anything. And people wonder why they can't find definitive information. Because people say the dumbest shit out of pocket, and help no one except with disinformation. Also, your comment was as helpful as mine. Keep up the good work, you're doing a real service to everyone.
If you don't know what you're talking about wether from personal experience, or having seen it put in practice in another thread. Stop cluttering the thread just to say something, for the sake of saying something, that is completely wrong. Because someone researching (a foreign concept I've seen), comes to this thread, no thinks he may have hermied his plants and may over mother his plants trying to be careful and hurt his plants. Please show me something backing up hermy-ing plants, in vedge from it getting cold, or a piece of literature backing it up. Something.
This is about information, not how cool of a person he is, or isn't. If you don't have something concrete or of the like to contribute, dont, ,yourehurting more than helping. I didn't, because it'd already been answered. But I forsure wasnt gonna let the comment go unchecked. As to not misinform someone new doing their homework.
Nullis
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tallstraw: Just because somebody says something that you disagree with, or which is potentially inaccurate- or stupid, even, doesn't give you the right to be rude.
Everybody has pre or ill-conceived notions, EVERYBODY. People confuse correlation and causation, people suffer from confirmation bias, etc. This is an internet forum; don't take what anybody says too seriously as far as advice goes. People need to use common sense and learn how to learn, basically.
But, how can you be such a hypocrite to tell others to "stop cluttering this thread just to say something for the sake of saying something, 'that is completely wrong' ", when all you can contribute is a STFU?
Rhetorical question, I guess. Play nice please.
Everybody has pre or ill-conceived notions, EVERYBODY. People confuse correlation and causation, people suffer from confirmation bias, etc. This is an internet forum; don't take what anybody says too seriously as far as advice goes. People need to use common sense and learn how to learn, basically.
But, how can you be such a hypocrite to tell others to "stop cluttering this thread just to say something for the sake of saying something, 'that is completely wrong' ", when all you can contribute is a STFU?
Rhetorical question, I guess. Play nice please.
waterdawg
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Ahh went out today and breaker tripped, shed at 38, girls look fine lol no droppy plants. I have found that unless they actually freeze no real harm done just get a bit unhappy is all. I've had lots of outdoor ones that went through a freeze but were also fine again totally different thing as they had been hardened off lol.
The way I look at it, there are so many variables involved in what will trigger a plant to herm that it is near impossible to put a finger on exactly what was the "straw"... So, if something happens during my grow that was completely out of normal schedule and I end up with a hermie or hermies later on, well I can't rightfully blame the genetics. If I have a "near" perfect grow and I have a herm, I blame genetics.
I can say with all confidence, having my lights go out for 12 hours during a freezing spell wouldn't be in my normal grow schedule and I would expect some real stress that my plant would have to recover from. Is it guaranteed to herm? Of course not. No where close, but if it DOES, well don't blame the genetics because it could have been related.
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