lostmarbles
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I want some of that....
24/hour light in veg is it good or should I 18/6?
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joejoe1191
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Okay, So I am understanding all of this pretty well. I think. I do have one question though. Lets say that you was to go with the 24/0 light cycle. Would you think that "making it rain" a few times a day, every other day, or even every day. Give the plant enough rest to make the growth catch back up? What I mean is doing 24/0 there's times where there is slow spots in between being able to see any changes in growth. Would making it rain help to make it noticeable again?this is the very first thing i posted...that u argued against....
Originally Posted by abudtokr
Plants need sleep, its nature.3
this statement is actually false! during the lights off period the plant is not sleeping but infact working more than it did wit the lights on!...the only time a plant 'sleeps' is right after it rains and the ground is leached....hence why some of us on here practice the 'making it rain' technique...but just cause the lights are off doesnt mean the plant is sleeping...some ppl like to think of plants to b alike as humans and that is false. the dark period is an active period where the plant uses the energy gained during the lights on period
And I totally agree with the facts you guys are laying out about plants not being dormant or asleep. That people substitute words to make it easier to understand like "my leg is asleep. It was never awake in the first place but there is other things going on that some wouldn't understand. So to make it easier we say asleep so that we dont have to think or try to understand what is really going on.
yanni
Member
i think it could go either way its been around for thousands of years so i guess 18/6 would be the way it was ment to be but as indoor growing moves forward i think the plants are going to adapt to the 24/0 light sch its hard saying i run 24/7 in veg i like a super stretchy strain then i bend over and over with bamboo works good
Lucius Vorenus
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Gee if plants need rest I wonder why they thrive so well in Alaska where it stays light for 3 months at a time. LOL
brissel
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http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/research/2007/sleeping_plants.html there you go mates
howsitgrowin420
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24 hour light works fine for me. My plants grow quickly, they show no signs of stress, and they all reliably show flowers two weeks after the flip. My reasons are purely selfish: I like to be able to work in there whenever I want and I don't want to manage the temperature of a dark period in the winter if I can avoid it. It works well for me and the only reason I would change would be to reduce electricity (but with a heater in the winter I'd probably actually spend more).
ItsJustMe84
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I just experimented with a 24/0 veg room and a 18/6 veg room, i found when the lights went off the humidity shot up and by the start of every light cycle the plants always look so much healthier than the ones under 24/0 theres more vegatation growing on the stems and nodes and not one of the plants stretched were as under 24/0 they did both in exactly same conditions with good temps and humidity, it seems to me that plants like a dark period its there natural cycle, i honestly wouldnt veg on 24 again as my plants do better on 18/6 although thats just my opnion.
BenGman
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I have never had a male plant out of 30 i've grown ( perhaps just lucky ) until i did 24/0, i ended up with 2 males out of 7 plants...whether it had anything to do with the constant light schedule or heat who knows , but i'll be going back to 18/6 from now on, but i aint bagging on 24/0 it work's great!.
