Messed up the light phase

Have 12 big plants that were under a four and six hundred watt. Installed an additional 1000w light yesterday (2 weeks into flowering) and in order to make do with only two electric timers plugged the other two lights into the one timer.

Now when I went to see them today I was there to see the lights switch off for the night. While the 1000w switched off fine, the timer with the two lights plugged into it failed to do so. Figured it must have been overloaded & become broken. In a worst case scenario this means the plants have been exposed to 36 hours continuous light as it was installed in the previous light cycle.

So what I want to know is - Is it a certainty that the plants will turn hermy now and if so will it be total or just some plants?

Is there anything that can now be done to reduce the risk?


Also a question for people who might know their timers/electrics - Do you know/can you make a best guess at what point the timer would have failed to work i.e. would it have broken as soon as the two plugs were inserted for the first time or might it have just failed spontaneously at a later stage?

ughhhhhh, those are good technical questions, but as for the plants there is nothing i can say but wait and see what happens.

im willing to bet you did overloard the timer, as timers can only handle so much, e.g. what they are rated for. resume light cycle and hope for the best, we've all messed up, and alot, even most of the time for at least me it has come out O.K.

Nah man you will be ok dont worry 2 muchin the end of summer some days be longer than others naturally and it wont mean your plants will go hemie at all !!

This has happend 2 me b4 mybe leave the lights of untill they get into a routine again but that could be more added stress or just carry on

id say u should be ok eather way

hippy....

Yeah happen to me too, I have 7th week flowering Island sweet skunk, and I just found out yesterday that the light was on for 24 hours for the past 2 weeks; the timer broke somehow. It started growing new leaves already. I fixed the light schedule and hopefully it will be okay... I'll let u know how it goes.

One thing tho, you may need to extend the flowering period for a few more weeks depending on how many weeks has the light schedule been screwed; mine has been irregular for 2 weeks, so I may have to add another 2 weeks on top of the 10 weeks flowering period... May or may not be true, it is just my common sense, somebody please correct me if I'm wrong...

good luck