ericomerico
Member
Hello everyone,
I'm thinking of switching my light cycle to a vegetative one with two weeks left to go on my flowering buds...
before you chastise me, let me explain.
My grow room is a stealth operation in the small cold cellar under the (concrete) steps in front of my house. the only way in is through a very narrow door in my basement. the room is 8 feet wide but only 3 feet deep. I've got two 400w hps cooltubes running off a 400cfm inline fan pulling through a can filter. one light on either side of the door as the door is right in the middle and I need to fit in the room to tend to the plants. the cooltubes vent to the outside and the room draws from a hole i busted through the cinder blocks i made behind my dryer.
All that is to say that separating the room into multiple chambers in order to have different light cycles is going to be royal pain in the ass. I've run a couple grows and so far everything runs smoothly and i get very good results. (in large part due to forums like this one) my issue is with the turn around time of having only one light cycle. my whole room explodes with buds, then I harvest... then it's a single light on only one side of the room with my yo-yo's almost all the way to the floor as my seedlings slowly come to a reasonable size. real slow, and not very efficient.
so here is what I am thinking, my buds are two week maybe three from harvest time. i've germinated my seeds almost two weeks ago and they are outgrowing my single cfl I randomly set up in my utility room. what would happen if i switched my entire grow room to a 18/6 light cycle, crowded a few of my plants together slightly and plopped my nice seedling tray right in the middle of the room where i normally stand to tend to the plants? ( i would just have to remove it when i need to get in there, usually only about every two days or so)
as far as I am concerned, my turn around time on batches would improve significantly. overlapping them by two or three weeks. the seedlings would for sure benefit from some of that nice 400w lighting.
but here is the big question: what happens to almost fully mature buds in a vegetative light cycle? there is no way that they will regress back to nothing right? but will they stop growing? will i lose the weight that they would have put on during those two weeks?
anyway, i've so far not been able to find any information at all on this matter. i've searched the hell out of google but there doesn't seem to be anybody out there who has done it. what do you guys think? am I being stupid? is it worth a shot?
any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
I'm thinking of switching my light cycle to a vegetative one with two weeks left to go on my flowering buds...
before you chastise me, let me explain.
My grow room is a stealth operation in the small cold cellar under the (concrete) steps in front of my house. the only way in is through a very narrow door in my basement. the room is 8 feet wide but only 3 feet deep. I've got two 400w hps cooltubes running off a 400cfm inline fan pulling through a can filter. one light on either side of the door as the door is right in the middle and I need to fit in the room to tend to the plants. the cooltubes vent to the outside and the room draws from a hole i busted through the cinder blocks i made behind my dryer.
All that is to say that separating the room into multiple chambers in order to have different light cycles is going to be royal pain in the ass. I've run a couple grows and so far everything runs smoothly and i get very good results. (in large part due to forums like this one) my issue is with the turn around time of having only one light cycle. my whole room explodes with buds, then I harvest... then it's a single light on only one side of the room with my yo-yo's almost all the way to the floor as my seedlings slowly come to a reasonable size. real slow, and not very efficient.
so here is what I am thinking, my buds are two week maybe three from harvest time. i've germinated my seeds almost two weeks ago and they are outgrowing my single cfl I randomly set up in my utility room. what would happen if i switched my entire grow room to a 18/6 light cycle, crowded a few of my plants together slightly and plopped my nice seedling tray right in the middle of the room where i normally stand to tend to the plants? ( i would just have to remove it when i need to get in there, usually only about every two days or so)
as far as I am concerned, my turn around time on batches would improve significantly. overlapping them by two or three weeks. the seedlings would for sure benefit from some of that nice 400w lighting.
but here is the big question: what happens to almost fully mature buds in a vegetative light cycle? there is no way that they will regress back to nothing right? but will they stop growing? will i lose the weight that they would have put on during those two weeks?
anyway, i've so far not been able to find any information at all on this matter. i've searched the hell out of google but there doesn't seem to be anybody out there who has done it. what do you guys think? am I being stupid? is it worth a shot?
any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
