Moon Lighting your indoor grow !!!

tybudz

Active Member
I have been doing what i do for about 10 years now. In the last year I have been testing the idea of creating moonlight during the "night" period.

Wanted to see if anyone else is doing this or any word on how you think it will effect the indoor growing room.
 

tybudz

Active Member
Well. my theory is that duing night time the plant must use a little energy. In indoor growing it is pitch dark during the night cycle.In nature the moon would be present most nights putting out a lttle amount of lumens/ energy to be absorb by our ladies. In my experience so far.

and I know.. with 2 plants same everything it is hard to replicate results. but after 3 grows now, i feel that the plant/plants that I put the moonlight on had more tichs and was a little denser. a little higher potency
 

tybudz

Active Member
so far so good. still havent found anyone with any experience besides myself in this subject.
 

gobbly

Well-Known Member
LUX averages for the moon:
0.002 lux Moonless clear night sky
0.01 lux Quarter moon
0.27 lux Full moon on a clear night
1 lux Full moon overhead at tropical latitudes

Not sure if that is helpful for you or not. It's a very small amount of light, not sure how 'visible' it is to the plant... Plus count in overcast nights in nature.
 

darkdestruction420

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plants make and store energy to use during light outs during the day. If you want to have more light get to the plants just use a longer veg cycle. Moonlight is basically worthless, thats why it doesnt mess up outside plants and make em hermie.
 

Punk

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I would advise against giving any light during your dark period. Moonlight doesn't affect outdoor plants and the reason is because the intensity of the sun is hundreds of thousands of times more intense than moonlight, but compared to a 400 watt light, the swing in difference is significantly less. Its all about the ratio of light to dark. If you try to duplicate moonlight indoors, you'll most likely cause your plants to hermaphrodite.
 

sappytreetree

New Member
good post but how do you plain to replicate moon light ?? are you ganna have the light get a little brighter over 30 days ... you know the moon also make's gravitey a little differnt on a full moom gravitey is pulling the plant up a lot of the old gardeners plant with the moon try to havest and plant on full moons
 
Lots of naysayers, well that's to be expected since there's such an abundance of lore about light leaks causing hermies, bla bla. But, the issue of what exactly are the causes of hermie-ism is FAR from settled. It seems just as likely that we'll find that moonlight eliminates hermies as anything else! I say thumbs up to the experiment.
 

tybudz

Active Member
LUX averages for the moon:
0.002 lux Moonless clear night sky
0.01 lux Quarter moon
0.27 lux Full moon on a clear night
1 lux Full moon overhead at tropical latitudes

Not sure if that is helpful for you or not. It's a very small amount of light, not sure how 'visible' it is to the plant... Plus count in overcast nights in nature.
what I have done so far is

1 lux Full moon overhead at tropical latitudes every night during dark period.

this in nature will not turn female into hermie so why would it in indoor??
 

tybudz

Active Member
the point of this is to make my indoor grow as close to nature as possible with still having photoperiod control so i can veg and bud when I want.
 

tybudz

Active Member
this will also in theory. allow the plant to keep stored energy usually used at night to create trich to protect plant and put it towards bud production during 12/12
 

GreatwhiteNorth

Global Moderator
Staff member
You might be on to something here. It would be interesting for someone with the space (for two flower rooms) to do a couple side-by-side grows using clones with all else being identical.
I like the idea. +
 

tybudz

Active Member
thats exactly what I have done with 3 grows now. and not one hermie and it seems that the ones under the moon light are denser, more potent buds.
 

Punk

Well-Known Member
the point of this is to make my indoor grow as close to nature as possible with still having photoperiod control so i can veg and bud when I want.
Well there's a million other things if you're trying to replicate the outdoors. What about sunrise and sunset? Plant rotation to simulate the earths rotation, Lowering the ambient temp lower than your room temp to simulate night, because it gets lower than 72 degrees in north america at night in most places. Claiming night light will prevent hermaphrodism is just straight up ignorant.
 
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