Lighting Experiment

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H-TownRyder

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I have been reading some stuff on here about people starting the flowering stage immediately and getting decent results. But what I am wondering is: If i cut down the light by an hour or 2 every week what do you think would happen? I am shooting for condensed plants that yield potent nugs. If anyone has tried or heard of this hit me up. THX.
 
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rkm

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H-TownRyder said:
I have been reading some stuff on here about people starting the flowering stage immediately and getting decent results. But what I am wondering is: If i cut down the light by an hour or 2 every week what do you think would happen? I am shooting for condensed plants that yield potent nugs. If anyone has tried or heard of this hit me up. THX.
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Is this your first grow?
 
JohnnyPotSeed1969

JohnnyPotSeed1969

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going straight to flower from seed isn't really worth it unless you have a rotating SOG grow going on. otherwise, you are cheating yourself out of yield. plants weren't designed to go straight to flowering after cracking above the soil. now if you're talking about clones, that's a slightly different issue as in theory the plant has already reached sexual maturity.

the whole point of this is to reproduce the exact conditions that the plant would find in nature in order to have the best result possible. shaving a few weeks off by skipping the vegetative growth phase isn't really worth it in my opinion. having the patience to go from seed (or clone) to bud is part of the awesomeness of growing and makes the payoff that much sweeter.

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bigbudeddie

bigbudeddie

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H-TownRyder said:
I have been reading some stuff on here about people starting the flowering stage immediately and getting decent results. But what I am wondering is: If i cut down the light by an hour or 2 every week what do you think would happen? I am shooting for condensed plants that yield potent nugs. If anyone has tried or heard of this hit me up. THX.
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Like johnny said your trying to imitate nature. So i think this would work, 2 hours a week. I mean in outdoors the light changes throughout the year, here it does anyway. Thats why when you change you light cycle from 18/6 to 14/10 you get heaps of pre-flowers.
 
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wafflehouselover

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actually im doing that righ tnow, 12/12 with 2 inch clones. Its turning out great, i get to put more plant per sqaure foot. Remember that the clone take on the characteristic of the momma plant, that means the age also.
 
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rkm

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H-TownRyder said:
I have been reading some stuff on here about people starting the flowering stage immediately and getting decent results. But what I am wondering is: If i cut down the light by an hour or 2 every week what do you think would happen? I am shooting for condensed plants that yield potent nugs. If anyone has tried or heard of this hit me up. THX.
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Ok, if you really want to imitate nature here is what you can try. Its a pain in the ass unless you have a timer that can do it. When plants start growing in the spring, the days are still relatively short. Go back over the last year and research the sunrise and sunset times. Starting at the beginning of the grow apply the daylight time each day as it would out side. That means every day you will have to increase the daylight time by a minute or so until it is time to start decreasing the minutes per day. I thought about trying this but decided against it, I am not going to get in there and start screwing around with the timer everyday. There is a system for this made for aquariums, however it bases its schedule off of the moon phases.
 
bigbudeddie

bigbudeddie

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rkm said:
Ok, if you really want to imitate nature here is what you can try. Its a pain in the ass unless you have a timer that can do it. When plants start growing in the spring, the days are still relatively short. Go back over the last year and research the sunrise and sunset times. Starting at the beginning of the grow apply the daylight time each day as it would out side. That means every day you will have to increase the daylight time by a minute or so until it is time to start decreasing the minutes per day. I thought about trying this but decided against it, I am not going to get in there and start screwing around with the timer everyday. There is a system for this made for aquariums, however it bases its schedule off of the moon phases.
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I like it man. I think i might try this, i have a digital timer so why not:mrgreen:
 
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wafflehouselover

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Or you can setup a photocell outside and run it to a relay which will auto turns it on off when the outside is nighttime/daytime instead of having to mess with your timer everyday.
 
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Early

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I do 15 minutes a week inside. It would probably be better to do 30 a week instead of 60 every 2.
 
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