Increased Lighting in Flower Period

i heard that during the last 2 weeks of flowering you can increase lighting to 13 or 14 hours on certain strains to produce more and more potent buds... this true? anybody ever tried it?

It seems as though this would be possible. Just from what i have read once a plant goes into its flowering stage, it has made a change in its "lifestyle" you could say and more light - torwards the end- wouldnt hurt it. If it were me i would slowly begin to increase the amount of light (so as not to shock the girl), say 5 minutes a day starting about 2 weeks prior to harvest. That would mean at a week she would be getting about 35 minutes extra light a day, and by 3, an extra hour and 10 minutes.

I would say this would be more succesful on a indoor/outdoor strain since outdoor strains may- MAY be more leniant in terms of light amount (anyone know if this is true?) changes due to the fact that outside weather (clouds, fog, etc.) could change the amount of light a plant would be getting normally.

i wouldnt try it bud. the plant will be forced back into vegging mode and will be confused. it may even go hermie on you. I sometimes put a budding plant back in veg and it stops growing bud.

in anything, just increase the number of lights in your room! try finding some LED's to supplement lighting. I use three 600 hps in a air cooled glass tube and two are very close to eachother. i have racks and the lights hang vertically on light movers so the lights hit both sides...i dont use a reflector and no light is wasted. The plants are only about 5 inches from the lights and because they grow up and never toward the lights, they are all even and i can grow several stages of plants. ive actually been considering trying to grow the plants upside down above and below the lights and trying a horizontal system with light movers. I put my younger plants on the top where they are exposed to one 600, and the lower shelves are for older plants, which get 2 600's. Works great...i get almost 2g. per watt- thats nearly 3500 grams off of 1800 watts.