lowerarchy
Active Member
I was reading on another site about a guy who had a 16kw vert flowering room and he was running his lights 8 on, 8 off for two hour cycles 12 hours a day. So he had a 12/12 cycle but only half the lights were on at any given time. As I recall he said the yield was disappointing (he expected 1g/w given the room setup and strains) so only ran that for one harvest, 16kw being a lot to experiment with naturally.
The lights were staggered so plants under the dark light were still getting side light from the lamps that were on. Like so:
X 0 X 0 X 0
0 X 0 X 0 X
then in two hours
0 X 0 X 0 X
X 0 X 0 X 0
Seems like it could be legitimate. I imagine that plant metabolism would follow a bell curve when it comes to light utilization and a 2/2
cycle doesn't seem ideal for this. I'm interested to see if a 6/6 would yield even slightly better on a gram per watt basis. If it did, you could technically run double the lights yer running now for the same operating costs and hey, more yield. You'd probably need a very compact strain, low sensitivity to IR light, cause stretching would certainly be a problem with half the day's light being filtered through the canopy.
Anyone ever tried this/know any threads discussing this?
The lights were staggered so plants under the dark light were still getting side light from the lamps that were on. Like so:
X 0 X 0 X 0
0 X 0 X 0 X
then in two hours
0 X 0 X 0 X
X 0 X 0 X 0
Seems like it could be legitimate. I imagine that plant metabolism would follow a bell curve when it comes to light utilization and a 2/2
cycle doesn't seem ideal for this. I'm interested to see if a 6/6 would yield even slightly better on a gram per watt basis. If it did, you could technically run double the lights yer running now for the same operating costs and hey, more yield. You'd probably need a very compact strain, low sensitivity to IR light, cause stretching would certainly be a problem with half the day's light being filtered through the canopy.
Anyone ever tried this/know any threads discussing this?