If you give your plant just a few minutes of light during the dark cycle ( like I said 5 minutes every 60 minutes of dark period) then your plant will stay in vegetative state( this experiment has been proven before.

now , 1000 watt hps gives you 126000 lumen

600 watt hps gives you 76000 lumen


in 12/12 version you give your plant about 13 hours of 126000 lumen lets say 126000 *13/24 = 68000 lumen

in 20/4 version you give your plant

76000*20/24=63000 lumen so they are close but using 1000 watt gives you more depth to have more buds in lower branch further in the flowering state than 600 watt ( the difference in depth of active light penetration is huge ) so this is what i meant .

5 min every hour huh. would and could you post where this is proven to increase veg growth

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i said keeping them in vegtetive state is possible I did NOT say it gives you more growth( thats what i am trying to do bro) but about the keeping them in vegetative state i can refer you to Skunk magazine vol 5 ,issue 1 page 42 . they kept their outdoor plants in vegetative state by just spraying a few minutes of light a few times during the night when the light period naturally was less than 12 hours.

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In an old mag I have there are pics of plants in full bloom in July in Canada, they continue to flower despite getting 16 hours a day of sun. The article states that to do this the plants are selected to be early flowerers and probably heavy indica, then they are flowered at 12/12 inside for four weeks. When the plants are in full flower mode, they get hardened off to be outside in full sun to finish flowering.
My idea is to see if this light regime can be done indoors, up the Lights On time after 4 weeks of flower. I think it would either speed up the ripening date or there would be more bud mass.

I dont think it will speed up the ripening but adding the weight yess, then you need to calculate how more weeks you need to put more for your plants . It seems some plants can go to flowering when the light is about 15 hours but light cycle should be in decreasing order every week .

if someone knows this or would like to try it please post the results. i want to see what happens when u dont let the plant have a constant circadian rithim. for instance 3 days with 20 hours "cycle" then three days with 25 hours then three days with 15 hours. just thought it would be a cool experiment. ill try that on my next grow, but itll be a while til results.

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i have been starting a seed every week to see if i can make all female plants with high nitrogen and cold temps.


the first 3 plants are female


i dont know if its just luck we will see as the next batch is close to showing.

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thats a cool idea to follow .

pieces of garlic buried in the plant pots with your plants can prevent some bacteria, rot, and some pests. Apperently does not effect plants flavor or anything.

-I have not tried this- just heard of it, my plants are healthy so can't realy test

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oh ic, will you be trying this soon?

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