So after reading around and such, some people say you can turn on or use a flashlight in dark cycle for short periods of time (under 2 minutes) without stressing your plants. And some say that any light, even a led light on a fan or slightest light on dark cycle can stress them.

I just had my first harvest and found a few seeds. My plants were all female without any signs of hermie until the last weeks of harvest i noticed some seeded pods. My setup has no light leak, but there were a few times I peeked in or check on them with a led type light on the dark cycle but never more than a minute or two.

Can nute lockout or PH fluctuation stress them into hermie also?

Reference threads:
Odd bud growth?
5 min out of dark cycle

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Opinions? Thoughts? Any experts care to chime in?

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little bits of lights cant really stress them to much, when weed is grow in nature it has a little light during the night, the moon, bad ph and nute lockout also can play into hermies as well .

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the moon is a considerable amount of light though..

Yeah it is, but it is also a constant steady moonlight as oppose to a flash of light from a light bulb and such.

I'm curious what others think.

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from what I've read on here, green lights are ok to use, something about the plants not reacting to it the same as white light. but no no light whatsoever! even a flashlight on one plant could delay it by 2 weeks! for indoor growing. I don;t know why you'd think outside headlights, streetlights and the moon would play hell on them but go figure...hang a curtain or dark sheets to protect them from any light.

a flashlight shined on a plant CANNOT delay it for 2 weeks. thats bogus info man. dont post random things if ya dont know buddy. kinda confuses people.

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that is an exact qoute from somewhere else on here, mine got delayed when a friend started taking flash piks in the dark to show his girl. This is why I stress NO LIGHT of any kind. better safe than sorry. I didn;'t mean to toss someone bad shit sorry... will be more careful about blindly posting from other readers opinions. but the less light the better m-m-mk?

Im currently growing outdoors and I check on my plants 1 to 2 times a night (with a flash light) and that sure hasn't affected them at all they are doing quite well and growing everyday

I feel ya on that. Im not an expert just looking for opinions and trying to figure out how mine went hermie.

Now i'm thinking they could have been feminized seeds. i hear that they are easily stressed into hermies.

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