My 8hr flowering experiment

No they are stretchy cus the cabinet gets super hot and i cant keep the light as close as id like.
They look way stretchier in the pics then they are tho.
The tallest stretchiest one is only 20"tall.

Just wanted to say again that I appreciate you doing this experiment and sharing with us.

I'm excited to see the results as well but I do struggle with the logic a little. Just about everywhere cannabis originates gets around 12 hours sun 12 hours night save an hour or two variance.

Are you saying cannabis has evolved to not efficiently use the resources it naturally has access too?

This would save me $350 a month if it works... DAYUM.

CHEERING FOR YOU @torontoke!

Horsetooth said:

I'm excited to see the results as well but I do struggle with the logic a little. Just about everywhere cannabis originates gets around 12 hours sun 12 hours night save an hour or two variance.

Are you saying cannabis has evolved to not efficiently use the resources it naturally has access too?

This would save me $350 a month if it works... DAYUM.

CHEERING FOR YOU @torontoke!

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No the basic argument of the article is that anything more than 6 hrs is too much light for the plants to process. 6 is supposedly the realistic amount of light actually needed by a fruiting or flowering plant.
Because the cycle is so short it is suppose to kickstart the plant into flowering faster because it only has those few hours to work with.

Again not my article but im the try it first type so we shall see

torontoke said:

No the basic argument of the article is that anything more than 6 hrs is too much light for the plants to process. 6 is supposedly the realistic amount of light actually needed by a fruiting or flowering plant.
Because the cycle is so short it is suppose to kickstart the plant into flowering faster because it only has those few hours to work with.

Again not my article but im the try it first type so we shall see

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so, if this light schedule does speed up flowering response, I would say you should see flowers any day.right?

Ya thats sort of my understanding aswell.
Im not really sure what my expectations were.
Most people i asked avout this before trying it said the plants would probably wilt shivel and die and they arent. So thats step one lol

torontoke said:

Ya thats sort of my understanding aswell.
Im not really sure what my expectations were.
Most people i asked avout this before trying it said the plants would probably wilt shivel and die and they arent. So thats step one lol

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even if it doesn't speed it up, but they still start flowering as usual, you still win.

I just had to go check now to see and ya i would say the flowers are forming and the little hairs are starting to shoot out. Now i wouldnt say it looks like its further along than usually since it is only a week in.

torontoke said:

I just had to go check now to see and ya i would say the flowers are forming and the little hairs are starting to shoot out. Now i wouldnt say it looks like its further along than usually since it is only a week in.

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showing flowers after 1 week is awesome. so far so good then.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

Just wanted to say again that I appreciate you doing this experiment and sharing with us.

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Thanks man i appreciate it.
The way i see it im just taking one for the team.
I tend to be a pessimist and expect negative but the hope of the possibilities in my mind out weigh the risk.

torontoke said:

Thanks man i appreciate it.
The way i see it im just taking one for the team.
I tend to be a pessimist and expect negative but the hope of the possibilities in my mind out weigh the risk.

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If you're afraid to fail then you won't take risks and you will never achieve anything great. Safe is boring.

Believe me im as big of a dreamer as they come lol
I have big plans once i finally find a house and move away.
Thats why this experiment is so important to me. Im hoping to one day be off the electrical grid and only needing half the juice would save me a fortune on batteries etc

Well after leaving everything alone for two days i was surprised today to find that the solo stash phantom cookies had balls bigger than mine.
So one down. The rest are all looking 100 female and are preflowering up.
I wouldnt say the flowering is sped up at all but things are alive and healthy looking.
Half a dozen shoots are now sticking out above the screen.

torontoke said:

Well after leaving everything alone for two days i was surprised today to find that the solo stash phantom cookies had balls bigger than mine.
So one down. The rest are all looking 100 female and are preflowering up.
I wouldnt say the flowering is sped up at all but things are alive and healthy looking.
Half a dozen shoots are now sticking out above the screen.

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does the article say to start 6/18 or 12/12 for first 2 weeks and then step it down?

Excellent thread. Someone has to do the physical science, even if the proof looks good on paper. Sounds like one of those things you just have to try for yourself. Light during veg is one thing. Light during flowering is something else, there may be much more (or "less") to it than we know. Good luck and thanks for actually doing the work, curious to see how the experiment turns out.

It says that he tried it many different ways before concluding that going straight to 6/18 will work and save the most money on electricity.
On the lil write up box it says for veg you can either do 12 on 5 1/2 off 1on 5 1/2 off. Or 30 mins on/off 6 times then 5 1/2 off 1on 5 1/2 off.
Flower 6 on 18 off.
I skipped the entire veg process because i dont have room for these to get that much bigger.

did the article have any pics of a side by side with 12/12 vs 8/16? or was this just this guys theory? wish you had a time machine to fast forward 7 weeks. good luck!

rkymtnman said:

did the article have any pics of a side by side with 12/12 vs 8/16? or was this just this guys theory? wish you had a time machine to fast forward 7 weeks. good luck!

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You and me both man lol.
No the article shows pics but those could be from plants grown on the moon for all i know.
I did go read the writers facebook page and there were alot of side by side pics on there.
Im just the type that likes to try new things and draw my own conclusions.

I don't think you get anywhere near the size of harvest as 12/12. My buddy, like 10 years ago, did something like this. Not because he was experimenting but because he was a little dense, to put it lightly. He decided to flower for like 6 or 8 hours because he didn't like the $100 electric bill. All he got were weak little popcorn buds from a skunk #1 that typically yielded quite well. Good luck.

I'm glad somebody decided to try this, I was actually thinking about doing the same sort of thing when I first got wind of this technique but decided it'd be pointless with out any sort of a control to compare it too. If this works out for you I think I may have to follow this up with the same type deal but involving clones.

I love any sort of experiment people post on here, whether they're 100% scientific or not... its good to see growers trying to test out things that are normally just accepted