Is 12/12 Best or Just Most Effective?

think of it like this if you were cut back to say not your days full meal.would you gane much wait.12/12

i think that 12/12 is just more convenient.. there is a way to actually figure out exactly how much darkness it takes to trigger flowering in a marijuana plant, but it takes a bit of work and such on your part.. i read an article one time in like high times or skunk or somewhere that tells how to do this.. it included looking at charts for flowering times for outdoor harvesting of the strain that you want to grow.. say it says that your strain will be done in the first week of november.. you than count back however many weeks it takes for your plant to flower, lets just say ten for arguments sake.. count back ten weeks.. now you gotta look up in a farmers almanac for the info on how much daylight/ darkness there is for your area on that day... this will tell you exactly how much darkness is needed to trigger flowering in your strain and in your area.. i would think that an outdoor grow using the same strain and area that you would be using indoors would be very helpfull for data in this process..
i just think that 12/12 is a little easier, lol.. i am not sure if it is the most beneficial though... really good ?..

soory didn't read all that that works after they have made flowers i'v did it had some far along had to put lights on 18/6.they finished with a smile

What up oregon24. I was born in Medford, OR. What he is trying to say is, hell I have no idea what he is trying to say.lol But marijuana plants need 12/12 to trigger and to keep flowering(except autoflowering). I have heard of people trying like 10 on 14 off before to save energy with almost no loss in production. Not sure I believe it. You should go 12/12. any less darkness and it should stay in veg mode. word up

Thanks for the responses, guys!

Here's the thing... My strains go into full flower at 14 hours of sunlight... Your analogy about food, that's the question... In budding, the food is still photosynthesis, right? So, sun is still the production engine. The only reason it flowers at shorter daylight is because it thinks that seasonally it must to survive. But it doesn't become darkness that actually feeds the plant, right? Wouldn't that mean that I should flower at the point where I can, even if that's 14/10?

Also, I think the easier method for determining when your strain would flower would be to just incrementally shorten your day period, just like nature would... When you get a short enough day, flowers would form...

I'm sure there's something I'm missing that makes that all wrong, and I want to learn what it is, so please let me know what you think. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Parallax

Thanks for the responses, guys!

Here's the thing... My strains go into full flower at 14 hours of sunlight... Your analogy about food, that's the question... In budding, the food is still photosynthesis, right? So, sun is still the production engine. The only reason it flowers at shorter daylight is because it thinks that seasonally it must to survive. But it doesn't become darkness that actually feeds the plant, right? Wouldn't that mean that I should flower at the point where I can, even if that's 14/10?

Also, I think the easier method for determining when your strain would flower would be to just incrementally shorten your day period, just like nature would... When you get a short enough day, flowers would form...

I'm sure there's something I'm missing that makes that all wrong, and I want to learn what it is, so please let me know what you think. Thanks!

whats up i didn't have my veg room ready at time so i just did what i had to do something i noticed when that little plant was on 18/6 in the same room with adults girls.it started to flower on 18/6 i ask my grower friend why ? it start to sprout he said from being around the adults kicked it into flower learned something that day 4 sure

nope he talking shit lol they were prob jus showing sex mate not flowering weeed dont flower at 18/6 it takes 12 hrs of darkness to flower plants work on dark hrs not light hrs

I have a video with Tim Fulgar (mj activest of Canada) from THC Labs, and he states that , you should up your lights to 13 - 14 hours during the last 2 weeks to up the THC production. You might find this dude on Youtube somewhere. Goodluck.