Cameras with IR

I recently had a problem with a timer going bad during flower and im wanting to put cameras in my rooms will the infra red night vision affect the flower cycle, thanks for any input.

Lionden said:

I recently had a problem with a timer going bad during flower and im wanting to put cameras in my rooms will the infra red night vision affect the flower cycle, thanks for any input.

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My friend had some set-up in one of his grows and never had any problems.

I have had hermies from dehumidifier led display light before. I always tape up any and all light sources. No matter how small.

But Infra red may not affect the plants like LEDs.

green_machine_two9er said:

But Infra red may not affect the plants like LEDs.

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Green LED displays will never be an issue.

I've had IR cameras in my veg and flowering cabs/rooms since I started indoor a couple of years ago. Have never had an indoor hermie or any sign of ill effects. The IR lights on these things don't put out enough light to worry about imo.

GroErr said:

I've had IR cameras in my veg and flowering cabs/rooms since I started indoor a couple of years ago. Have never had an indoor hermie or any sign of ill effects. The IR lights on these things don't put out enough light to worry about imo.
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Exactly

IR is in a spectrum that doesn't effect plants which is weird because it's only just outside the range of visible light like UV light:

Wouldn't the earth be bombarded with ir at night as well?

green_machine_two9er said:

I have had hermies from dehumidifier led display light before. I always tape up any and all light sources. No matter how small.

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how can you be certain the hermies were triggered by the tiny led light you mentioned ?

skunkd0c said:

how can you be certain the hermies were triggered by the tiny led light you mentioned ?

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This was years ago. It was a matter of only affected areas of my grow room where directly in front of display light. It was red if I remember correctly. Now I guess I can't be certain but the entire grow(24 plants) was not effected with the exception of 3 plants again situated directly in front of dehumidifier. And after taping all displayshave not had a hermie since.

green_machine_two9er said:

This was years ago. It was a matter of only affected areas of my grow room where directly in front of display light. It was red if I remember correctly. Now I guess I can't be certain but the entire grow(24 plants) was not effected with the exception of 3 plants again situated directly in front of dehumidifier. And after taping all displayshave not had a hermie since.

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coincidence ?

skunkd0c said:

coincidence ?

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Nah. And I was thinking more about this. The display was not a light but screen that digitally read out the current rh. A small infa red light is much different than a led display.

green_machine_two9er said:

Nah. And I was thinking more about this. The display was not a light but screen that digitally read out the current rh. A small infa red light is much different than a led display.

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plants have no problems outside with all the street lighting and moonlight
i do not see why a tiny led display would cause problems indoor

the amount of light it would produce is very small, i do not believe the plants are sensitive to such a small amount of light or all the plants outdoors would hermie under moonlight/street lighting ?

skunkd0c said:

plants have no problems outside with all the street lighting and moonlight
i do not see why a tiny led display would cause problems indoor

the amount of light it would produce is very small, i do not believe the plants are sensitive to such a small amount of light or all the plants outdoors would hermie under moonlight/street lighting ?

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I have problems comparing it to outdoor. The natural circadian rhythm of all outdoor plants are in a perfect symbiotic relationship with the sun moon and time changes which happen daily. Not the same as tricking the plant to go into flowing. It is already potentially stressing the plant being force flowered and I can't rule out small light sources causing big problems.

skunkd0c said:

plants have no problems outside with all the street lighting and moonlight
i do not see why a tiny led display would cause problems indoor

the amount of light it would produce is very small, i do not believe the plants are sensitive to such a small amount of light or all the plants outdoors would hermie under moonlight/street lighting ?

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I've seen a photo of a bush, behind a fence by the roadway and part of it was getting hit by a street lamp and that portion was vegging, while the rest of the bush was in flo.

green_machine_two9er said:

I have problems comparing it to outdoor. The natural circadian rhythm of all outdoor plants are in a perfect symbiotic relationship with the sun moon and time changes which happen daily. Not the same as tricking the plant to go into flowing. It is already potentially stressing the plant being force flowered and I can't rule out small light sources causing big problems.

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i see no reason why the plant would be stressed indoor just because it is indoor (forced flowered)
i am certian most humans suffer from much more stress than plants which from my experience are pretty resilient to whatever i throw at them
or any reason why plants would have such a drastic change in sensitivity towards light because they are indoor

can you be more specific (The natural circadian rhythm) about what the plants would receive or not receive outdoor that would cause such a change in their response to light ?

i just have a problem with the level of light in question , i do believe that a large light leak could cause issues if it was a sustained leak
i find it hard to believe plants indoor could be affected by much smaller leaks from my own experience i have not had any issues indoor or outdoor

cephalopod said:

I've seen a photo of a bush, behind a fence by the roadway and part of it was getting hit by a street lamp and that portion was vegging, while the rest of the bush was in flo.

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i have street lamps and of course moonlight hitting my back garden too ... plants have no problems as its still dark enough to trigger the flower response
i do not see why plants would suddenly become ultra sensitive to tiny amounts of light just because they are indoor

skunkd0c said:

i have street lamps and of course moonlight hitting my back garden too ... plants have no problems as its still dark enough to trigger the flower response
i do not see why plants would suddenly become ultra sensitive to tiny amounts of light just because they are indoor

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I for one don't think they are even super sensitive, let alone ultra! lol

cephalopod said:

Wouldn't the earth be bombarded with ir at night as well?

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I've been using a 730 nm trigger at lights out and read somewhere that 730 is present outdoors at night,I assumed it was in moonlight.