SensiBlaze
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OK I have grown a few crops now and I am trying to hone my practice to produce the happiest girls possible 100% of the time.. My most recent observation is of the stress the plant encounters at the end of a long day in veg. (18/6) The leaves, though happy as ever, will begin to droop slightly in the last few hours before lights out. Kind of how they droop when the lights ARE out.
I have read some anecdotal statements saying that cannabis can only utilize so much light at once, and after a certain point you are wasting electricity. I see how there could be some truth to this as the sun would never directly hit your plant for 18 hours straight.. If this is true it would make sense that once the leaves start to droop toward the end of the day, the plant has reached its limit and is not using light to its full potential. Which would also correlate with droopy leaves during lights out due to not utilizing light at that time..
I am running this crop on a 16/8 cycle due to summer temps and electricity savings from the 1kW bulb.. Even with 2 hours cut, I still see the "tiredness" of the plants an hour or so before dark..
Next order of business, I have seen people doing a 6/2 schedule to give their plants a good 2 hour break between cycles to process the light they received, which in turn prevents the tired droop and supposedly allows the plant to grow faster due to utilizing all of the light it receives.. I know this would be hard on the bulb, I do. BUT if it's something that would keep my ladies happy AND not be wasting electricity on useless light... It might be something I'm willing to do..
Does anyone at all have any experience with messing with your veg cycle to prevent this "tired" droop? If not messing with the light cycle itself, how did you solve this? Is it seen as an issue among the community? Does the plant in fact stop utilizing light after this droop manifests?
I have read some anecdotal statements saying that cannabis can only utilize so much light at once, and after a certain point you are wasting electricity. I see how there could be some truth to this as the sun would never directly hit your plant for 18 hours straight.. If this is true it would make sense that once the leaves start to droop toward the end of the day, the plant has reached its limit and is not using light to its full potential. Which would also correlate with droopy leaves during lights out due to not utilizing light at that time..
I am running this crop on a 16/8 cycle due to summer temps and electricity savings from the 1kW bulb.. Even with 2 hours cut, I still see the "tiredness" of the plants an hour or so before dark..
Next order of business, I have seen people doing a 6/2 schedule to give their plants a good 2 hour break between cycles to process the light they received, which in turn prevents the tired droop and supposedly allows the plant to grow faster due to utilizing all of the light it receives.. I know this would be hard on the bulb, I do. BUT if it's something that would keep my ladies happy AND not be wasting electricity on useless light... It might be something I'm willing to do..
Does anyone at all have any experience with messing with your veg cycle to prevent this "tired" droop? If not messing with the light cycle itself, how did you solve this? Is it seen as an issue among the community? Does the plant in fact stop utilizing light after this droop manifests?
