Question about the regularity of light cycles. pls advise.

Hey there ROI!

I plan on starting a grow, the light cycle will be as follows:

Veg for 4 weeks - @ 16/8
Flower for 8 weeks - @ 12/12

Now my question is, if my lights cycle gets interrupted for 2 - 3 minutes(power goes off), how will this affect my plants?

How will it also affect them if they only get 6 hours of light instead of 12 or 16 on a couple of days per month? will this make them turn hermie? or force them into flowering?

Would you advise me to skip the veg phase and go straight to 12/12 from seed in case i have irregularities in my light schedule? My reasoning is if they are flowering from the get go (12/12 from seed), interruptions in the light cycle even for a few hours have no risk of flowering them (since they are already flowering from the start) But, will it hermie them?

What would you advise?

Thanks!

You should be ok just so long as it doesnt happen too often. You should be fine.

the lights going off when they should be on is the better option of the two.. it's much worse to interrupt their dark period than it is to break up their light periods if that makes sense to you..
saying that, you still will want to keep either of them to a minimum if you can just to keep stress at a low..

it will cause stress. stress in the veg stage is just fine. stress in the flower stage... especially mid and late... is bad. A small mishap 2 or 3 times shouldn't be a big deal. Last night, after lights out, I was supposed to spray my plants down with a foliar spray. I forgot. so, this morning, an hour after the lights turned on, I had to turn my lights off for a half hour while I sprayed my plants and let them absorb the mist. So, 2.5 weeks in, my plants got a half hour less light today. I'm not worried at all. I just ate some cookies. sorry for the run-on sentences... I'm not even going to try to correct them.

Thanks guys, that was the info I was looking forward to hearing

No risk of me accidentally opening the grow area when the lights are off, was just worried if interruptions in the light period will be an issue. Just hoping I will schedule my light cycles so I can avoid that happening.

Thanks to all who answered! and + rep!

Hehehe, I will......I'm very fussy though and my OCD gets the best of me most of the times

Thanks for the encouragement though