My 8hr flowering experiment

torontoke

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Damn, stop showing those flowers as they develop. I promised myself I'd reduce my lights-on times slowly to see the effects but seeing these you're going to make me a liar and go straight to 8/16! lol
I'd honestly suggest doing it your way sir. Each crop lower it a half hour or so and find what truly works best for your strain/environment.
I would be willing to bet that you keep reducing tho and don't ever go back to 12/12. People might think I'm an extreme tight ass or push it to far with 8 hours but even 10 hours is a lot of savings energy wise (20%).
And I'm also fairly confident that if I can get buds like these with 8 I could match or beat my 12hr yield with 10 for sure.
 

torontoke

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I'm super curious about how long these are going to go.
I really can't see them going another 25 days and that would only be 51days from flip. Wouldn't be surprised if these are less then 50.

Guess there's only one way to find out lol
 

GroErr

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I'd honestly suggest doing it your way sir. Each crop lower it a half hour or so and find what truly works best for your strain/environment.
I would be willing to bet that you keep reducing tho and don't ever go back to 12/12. People might think I'm an extreme tight ass or push it to far with 8 hours but even 10 hours is a lot of savings energy wise (20%).
And I'm also fairly confident that if I can get buds like these with 8 I could match or beat my 12hr yield with 10 for sure.
Yeah I'm interested in seeing the differences in expression of the clones as I reduce the times but not seeing much downside.
 

torontoke

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Yeah I'm interested in seeing the differences in expression of the clones as I reduce the times but not seeing much downside.
Me neither tbh
But I suppose that is obvious lol
I was planning to try a few other cycles but there really is no reason.
Long term I think that I can reasonably supply myself even with plant count limit using 8/16.
 
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