Has anyone ever heard of an 8 hour light cycle

i am talking about when the plants are in flowering running the lights 8/8 instard of 12/12, i havnt found a timer yet that will do this, so it is mostly done by someone who is going to be home.

i havent done it but have heard great things about flowering under this schdule, i am wondering if anyone on here has heard or ever tried anything like this?

8 hour shift at taco bell ?

I pretty sure you plants wont flower at 8/8.
They know to flower depending on length of the night. 8 Hour Night not long enough.
At 8/8 you plants wont know wtf to do lol.

Maybe 8/12/8/12/8/12 I've heard of light cycles close to this.

Where did you hear this at? I'm highly skeptical of it, I dont see how it would help anything at all......

12/12,stick to the tried and proven method what's been used 10000 times

ptone said:

Maybe 8/12/8/12/8/12 I've heard of light cycles close to this.

Click to expand...

i remember something like this in the grow FAQ's,under increase your yield in the advanced grow techniques

lol im pre drunk n baked but i are confused 8/8? what happend to the rest of the 8 hours. 8 on 8 off then what u do with other 8. i ask cause i am also curious, i want to do 8 hours on 16 hours or 10 on 14 off
any one try any of these?

I think its funny, there are always going to be people trying to reinvent the wheel...

There is nothing that will make your plants finish faster, and if there is, its only speeds things up by a few days, learn some patience and just let them grow...

The reason most people veg under 18/6 and flower under 12/12 is because after years of growers trying heaps of different things, the concensus was these were the most beneficial lighting times for good consistent results...

if you keep it 8/8 or 8/>8 you will flower. but why not just spend $5 on a timer?

because most timers are based on 24 hours. 8 on, 8 off, 8 on, the next cycle should be off but a 24 hour timer is saying to stay on. get it?

I've wondered this. Not so much to shorten the day, but to lengthen it while maintaining 12 hours of darkness. Everything I've read and hear says 12 hours of darkness triggers plants to flower. But does the plant know there are 24 hours in a day? Could a 15/12 cycle increase growth because the plant has more time to spend performing photosynthesis?

And it's not true that your plants will not finish faster by varying the times. If you go straight into 8/16 from clone, your going to finish faster. Your yield is going to suck, but your gonna cut a couple weeks off. And you can finish off premature buds under 10/14 the last few days without encouraging new immature growth.

youre plants need atleast 10 hrs of light to produce thc and resin.....12 is actually about 50% better than 10 hours. more trichs and resin. and isn't that what we all want?

Bump

I think it might work, blast with enough 725nm at lights out to breakdown most of the active Pfr into inactive Pr. Increase intensity to match 12hr DLI during lights on, but use a bit more duration or intensity on your EOD flower initiator lights?

Never heard of this but I've done glr a few times and it does speed up flower by about a week strain dependent but at the cost of yield.i do shorten the light time on the odd plant that's not finished when the rest have as the more dark you give does speed up the finish but it's not a huge amount.all these nutes or techniques that say will speed up flower double yields blah blah blah is all bull

tiltswitch said:

Never heard of this but I've done glr a few times and it does speed up flower by about a week strain dependent but at the cost of yield.i do shorten the light time on the odd plant that's not finished when the rest have as the more dark you give does speed up the finish but it's not a huge amount.all these nutes or techniques that say will speed up flower double yields blah blah blah is all bull

Click to expand...

Ya its not the nutes speeding up the flower that I'm describing, but you'd have to feed it accordingly to the plants biological clock (whatever that may be).

The plants use the sugar they made during the day to get them through the night. If you were increasing intensity, the logic follows that you'd be storing more sugar per day. 8/8/8 is still average of 12/12, so more sugar made per day. I'm wondering if someone were to use a greater intensity FR EOD light, or kept them on for a longer duration than typically prescribed, that they could trick the plant into "speeding up?"

I'm pretty sure that's how gas light routine works.with the hour of dark in the middle of the cycle.

Don't over complicate it12/12 works great....every time.