Changing Light On At Night Time?

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LastOneLeft

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I read that it is better to flower when you flip them and the dawn time still remains the same time as usual? I want to have my lights on at night time (instead of day time as of right now 6am-12pm) I want the lights on at night so would it be a problem if I just did the flip at 9pm-9am to start flowering? Or would this stress the crap out of the girls?

Thank you
LastOneLeft
 
Yeah, exactly. The chaning of the time might make them into hermies and thats my main concern.

So theres a possibitlity? or theres no channce of doing something liek that or slowly introducing them into a different time?
 
I would like to know this as well, as I have been doing that light switch of the schedule as discussed for my recent grow... and I have a plant that's going hermie and I thought it was mostly because it was a feminized seed... however now I fear that more of my plants are going to turn hermie soon.

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Does anyone know if switching from a veg schedule during the day (I veg outdoors), to a flowering schedule at night (7PM to 7AM), would mess the plants up in the transition to cause them to go hermie and/or stressed?
 
I've heard that what you can do is just push your "lights on" time back by an hour or two each day.

Just keep doing that for like a week and your schedule will have effectively "flipped". If the plants are getting an extra hour or two of dark time, it shouldn't be a problem.

If you're not already in flowering, then you can do whatever you want as far as the light cycle and it won't affect the sex of your plants.
 
doobnVA said:
I've heard that what you can do is just push your "lights on" time back by an hour or two each day.

Just keep doing that for like a week and your schedule will have effectively "flipped". If the plants are getting an extra hour or two of dark time, it shouldn't be a problem.

If you're not already in flowering, then you can do whatever you want as far as the light cycle and it won't affect the sex of your plants.
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Well, the problem is that I have a grow cycle... like a small-scale sea of green. I want to harvest ever 3 weeks eventually. This means I can't adjust the light schedule like that, without throwing everything off, and I'll need to add more plants once the schedule is adjusted to night time. So that wouldn't work for my situation, but that could work for other growers on here.
 
Oh Perfect, my girls are still in vegging stage (well for a while now).

(about a week ago)
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That means I can just leave them to stay awake throughout the night and when I want my sleep time (9am-9pm) simple dial it in?

Just to confirm: Vegging stage you can play with the light hours as long as 18 or more hours are on correct

Flowering stage you would recommend staying with the hours you already have so you dont introduce hermies

So my girls would be awake for 33 hours before flipping to flowering? Would this cause any problems or stress during flowering stage?
 
LastOneLeft said:
Oh Perfect,
So my girls would be awake for 33 hours before flipping to flowering? Would this cause any problems or stress during flowering stage?
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Thats what I want to know too. Going from 18 hours, to 33 hours, to 12 hours has to mess the plant up. Right? Lol, because that's what I'm doing and I'm starting to see warning signs. Does anyone know?
 
Oh shit eh.

Are you sure it wasnt the strain itself?

Or did you take clones directly from a mother?

All I know for sure is that we are supposes to mimic the enviroment. The sun doesnt do that so it might have affected it Im not sure

We need someone with hand on experience to inform us.
 
LastOneLeft said:
Oh shit eh.

Are you sure it wasnt the strain itself?

Or did you take clones directly from a mother?

All I know for sure is that we are supposes to mimic the enviroment. The sun doesnt do that so it might have affected it Im not sure

We need someone with hand on experience to inform us.
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If those questions are directed towards me, I know that my plant that went hermie is 99% because its from an unstable feminized seed strain (The Church).

And I have had my plants induced on 12-12 with the light schedule mentioned above, and haven't seen any hermies yet and all of the plants are 3-5 weeks into flowering. So maybe the light schedule isn't terribly bad for the plants, and my hermie is because of the strain.

My assumption thus far is as long as the plant has more than 12 hours before budding, and a strict 12-12 during flowering, then there should be no problems.
 
Los Ganjales said:
If those questions are directed towards me, I know that my plant that went hermie is 99% because its from an unstable feminized seed strain (The Church).

And I have had my plants induced on 12-12 with the light schedule mentioned above, and haven't seen any hermies yet and all of the plants are 3-5 weeks into flowering. So maybe the light schedule isn't terribly bad for the plants, and my hermie is because of the strain.

My assumption thus far is as long as the plant has more than 12 hours before budding, and a strict 12-12 during flowering, then there should be no problems.
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99 percent feminized meaning gurantee females right? well almost.
Thats what I'm saying, maybe your strain was hermies that one batch.

Your assumption might be correct and I hope it is becasue I need to flower
asap.

I cant wait 9 days to slowly introduce the timing change. If they werent 18-21 inches tall. then I would but not in this case.

I think it would be alright as you mention. Tomorrow is the new time 9am-9pm is sleep. So they are awake at this moment until 9 in the morning.
 
LastOneLeft said:
99 percent feminized meaning gurantee females right? well almost.
Thats what I'm saying, maybe your strain was hermies that one batch.

Your assumption might be correct and I hope it is becasue I need to flower
asap.

I cant wait 9 days to slowly introduce the timing change. If they werent 18-21 inches tall. then I would but not in this case.

I think it would be alright as you mention. Tomorrow is the new time 9am-9pm is sleep. So they are awake at this moment until 9 in the morning.
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Yep, just keep the light on until it's the official new "bedtime" and then make sure they get their 12 hours of uninterrupted beauty sleep each day and you should be fine.

This is why I've got my plants under lights 24 hours a day until they're ready to flower. I can't decide yet when bedtime should be, and I don't want to get stuck into a light cycle that doesn't mesh with my own personal living schedule, yanno?
 
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