info:using infrared light only

so I got a male kush plant that I dont want anymore, I was gonna chuck it, but I decided to put it in my snake tank, under infrared light to examine it.
I figure it will send it into flower, growth spurt and then die.
I was thinking about using infrared light for the first and last hour of the flower cycle, as it reflects the suns natural spectrum.



any thoughts ?

Will another light source be present during the hours of IR lighting?
I figure you will get some stretching and early flowering which obviously is stressful and could leave you with a hermie.
All-in-all pretty uneventful.

Resident Kush said:

so I got a male kush plant that I dont want anymore, I was gonna chuck it, but I decided to put it in my snake tank, under infrared light to examine it.
I figure it will send it into flower, growth spurt and then die.
I was thinking about using infrared light for the first and last hour of the flower cycle, as it reflects the suns natural spectrum.



any thoughts ?

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im not positive on this info but i believe a plant needs different colors of light spectrum to survive. im also not familiar with infrared but it sounds to me that the main color is red. i would assume that the plant may survive longer under the infrared then with no light at all but i think it will die eventually.

it would be full spectrum for ten hours

the male i dont care about .. but its thriving right now, day 1. but im more concerned about using it before and after the full spectrum 1000 hps and 400 mh, with a one hour window before and after of a 400 w infrared

1 hr red
10 full
1 hr red

Plants don't use IR for food, per se ...only for photosynthesis triggering.
With full-spectrum lights off and IR on, your plant will be fooled into thinking there's full-spectrum light shining on it and it will stretch to find it. Since there's no consumable light all you'll get is stretching and no healthy growth for those 2 hours.

what about adding it to the full spec or mh light in early flower

i read an article yesterday on infrared and photosynthesis in plants, and how light getting the IR would remain the same, but lower nodes not reveiving the light would stretch to the light at a much faster rate than normal. So what im thinking of, is stretching the bottom half of the plants only, so when they continue to flower without the IR, there would be no buds on the bottom, just branched out and up, halfway and up.

and if this works, you would increase yield and shorten the preflower and veg stage dramatically.

Photosynthesis would not occur with the IR as it is simply reflected off of the leaves.
I think the effect would be the same: a ridiculous amount of stretching but no healthy growth. Similar to the effects of growing under incandescent lighting.
Also, since you're using a MH bulb, there's already an appropriate amount of IR coming out of your lighting. I would think the added IR would have the effect of overpowering the blue spectrum and you'd have the effect of growing under a powerful incandescent ...i.e. an overstretched plant.
I say give it a shot and see for yourself but I don't see any added benefit to the plant.

will do thanks for the advice .

i took a completely wilted male, watered w nutes topped him, and put him under IR. He is perked right up now, and theres little to no light passing through the fan leaves.
im going to clip half the bottom to see what new growth looks like
Ill post on here if anything positive comes out of it.