My 8hr flowering experiment

SonsOfAvery

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Things turned out dank and delicious!

The "technique" works enough to supply myself with meds.
Unfortunately I can't offer a direct yield lost per hour but I can say that strain dependant I am still able to get an oz per gal for the most part.
Hoping to have some much more detailed info one day but I'm working on it.

I try to recommend that people curious about trying alternate cycles ease into it and I'm confident that even going to 11/13 or 10/14 could save you a couple bucks, shave a few days off of harvest time and not effect potentcy one bit.
As always ymmv but more n more people are having good results.
Firstly apologies for not reading it all, but 111 pages was a bit much.
Just wondering if you managed to get good results with less light hours, do you still need so many dark hours?
I know the plants will need a minimum to make sure they flower, but say that was 12 and lights on was 8 total 20.
This would reduce the days needed.
A plant that flowers in usually 60days would then only take 50.

Sorry if this has been covered already, I'm just really intrigued.
 

torontoke

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Firstly apologies for not reading it all, but 111 pages was a bit much.
Just wondering if you managed to get good results with less light hours, do you still need so many dark hours?
I know the plants will need a minimum to make sure they flower, but say that was 12 and lights on was 8 total 20.
This would reduce the days needed.
A plant that flowers in usually 60days would then only take 50.

Sorry if this has been covered already, I'm just really intrigued.
No worries
It is a tad bit long now and I wouldn't read it either......now
Yes I would agree that your theory is solid and makes a lot of sense.
The tricky part would be firstly setting up a timer to run that schedule and if u live somewhere with higher daytime rates vs night a 20hr day would have your on time floating through both.
If u do manage to come up with a way of setting it up please feel free to let us know how it goes.
 
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SonsOfAvery

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No worries
It is a tad bit long now and I wouldn't read it either......now
Yes I would agree that your theory is solid and makes a lot of sense.
The tricky part would be firstly setting up a timer to run that schedule and if u live someone with higher daytime rates vs night a 20hr day would have your on time floating through both.
If u do manage to come up with a way of setting it up please feel free to let us know how it goes.
Good to hear that it can work!
I'm currently on my first grow 3 weeks into flower, but I'm in the process of setting up a perpetual grow.
The tariff I'm on for electricity is basically pay as you go. So it's the same charge at any time. And I did recently see a 7day digital timer for only £10.
Once I get this grow out the way and everything is good (fingers crossed) I'll look into setting up a shorter flowering cycle for my next one.
 

torontoke

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Well after finally getting my licence to grow from health Canada the other day I've decided to fire back up the baby seedling cabinet.
Just has a dozen led cfl bulbs and a t5 but should help push the perpetual forward.

Popped 5 more dank Sinatra and 5 barefoot dr f2
Lights been on ten minutes and already got 15 cups under it lol
 

torontoke

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IMG_3847.PNG Officially out of room completely in the veg tent so I decided today is the day.
Flipped that bitch too
Hoping that most of the plants in the cabinet will be done by the time the tent is sexed and needing more room.
Eventually I'll just have the testers in the tent flowering and the taller monsters in the cab.
Only one way to find out.
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