The Importance of Darkness

Guile

Active Member
Ok what about when The plants are about 7 weeks through flowering and a timer malfunction allows 15 hours of light/day for about 3 days. I know this can affect hermie production but can I do anything (give extended dark or will this make it worse?) to help?
There is a light cycle that includes day long (24hr) periods of both light and darkness with intermittent hours in-between that I used once to induce hermaphrodites. (It was for an experiment dealing with female seeds). It was pretty involved, requiring daily reprogramming of my timer.

I point this out because I have never accidentally hermaphrodited (not trying to claim its all skill, probably a bit of luck in there too). The effort it took to ensure hermaphrodites through light manipulation was well, significant really....

My best advice would be to get it back on a 12/12 cycle. Try to land it in the difference of the mistake (remove 1 hour of light from each side of the light period). Other than that just keep an eye out for male flowers and isolate any plants that develop them. I doubt you will find any but if you do, finish flowering hermaphrodites under something like a compact florescent in the closet or garage you will get female seeds from it and if you provide enough light you will even get some pot too.. Seeds don't ruin pot, most the pot I had (other than what I've grown) has contained seeds and it still got me high.

Sites like this offer some pretty critical views and have people thinking that anything less than perfection is complete failure, leaving absolutely no room to learn from mistakes.
The best educations are first hand, if you work to salvage something out of every bad situation the education you gain will be far superior to that of someone that has never "failed".
 

SFguy

Well-Known Member
but it is important to MAINTAIN darkness/ as in no flashes of light . dont disturb the night cycle with Light
i take pic with light out all the time, the flash wont mess with it, but id say anything longer than 2-3 regularly is WAY too long, theyll still be there in a few more hours be patient, ya aint gotta check on them every 5 seconds
 
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