My 8hr flowering experiment

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

Ya i saw those through the whole process.
Its his house but my room lol.
I brought all the strains there and did all the work.
These in this cabinet are smaller for sure.
I just hit em with a heavy feed with some additives.
Might have something to do with the last couple weeks when my gf had to feed n water.

Hopefully they bounce back and grow like hell soon

thenotsoesoteric · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
After tasting these strains grown out at my buddies i was super excited to get in the cab for an update.
I must say some of my optimism is waning.
While all the plants are definately flowering they dont seem to growing or packing on any weight.
Will give em another week and if i dont see any size increase in the buds i will add an hour to flower and see if that helps.
I also lowered the light by 5" hopefully the temp stays managable.

I love the optimistic approach, but as I stated at the beginning of this thread and was ignored. I have already seen someone do a shorten duration of lights on for flower. A buddy about 10 years ago wanted to reduce his electric bill so he tried flowering out with limited hours of light (roughly 6 hours I believe) from his 1k hps and his harvest was not even half of what I pulled with a 400w hps. He also suck hard at growing and typically I still pulled more off my 400 watter than he ever did off a 1k watter. 6 hours will bud out plants but it will diminish your harvest substantially. Cheers and hopefully you have better results than my old friend.

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

thenotsoesoteric said:
I love the optimistic approach, but as I stated at the beginning of this thread and was ignored. I have already seen someone do a shorten duration of lights on for flower. A buddy about 10 years ago wanted to reduce his electric bill so he tried flowering out with limited hours of light (roughly 6 hours I believe) from his 1k hps and his harvest was not even half of what I pulled with a 400w hps. He also suck hard at growing and typically I still pulled more off my 400 watter than he ever did off a 1k watter. 6 hours will bud out plants but it will diminish your harvest substantially. Cheers and hopefully you have better results than my old friend.

I wasnt ignoring your previous post. I remember reading it clearly bud.
However if everyone listened to everyword ever posted on the interwebs we'd all have 12" cocks and a billion dollars in the bank and no need to ever do anything lol.
Ive had a minimum of ten old school growers that i know flat out laugh at me and make jokes about the article and me trying this experiment but what can i say im a glutton for punishment.
4-5 more weeks and i will be right there with ya except i could then say "i tried it, dont bother"

Heres to hoping we are wrong tho lol

thenotsoesoteric · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
I wasnt ignoring your previous post. I remember reading it clearly bud.
However if everyone listened to everyword ever posted on the interwebs we'd all have 12" cocks and a billion dollars in the bank and no need to ever do anything lol.
Ive had a minimum of ten old school growers that i know flat out laugh at me and make jokes about the article and me trying this experiment but what can i say im a glutton for punishment.
4-5 more weeks and i will be right there with ya except i could then say "i tried it, dont bother"

Heres to hoping we are wrong tho lol

No, I wouldn't laugh at someone when they're actively experimenting, that's where great things sometimes happen. I was just trying to prepare you for the possible out come, either way here's to positive vibes and hopefully you'll get a few ounces to puff on. Cheers.

chuck estevez · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
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those kinda look like where they should be at this time. I wouldn't mess with anything. Keep going

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

Oh i plan to see this bitch through to the end.
One way or the other i will get an answer to whether this method works as described in the article.
The light should have be lowered already i just couldnt do it.
We shall see...

thenotsoesoteric · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
Oh i plan to see this bitch through to the end.
One way or the other i will get an answer to whether this method works as described in the article.
The light should have be lowered already i just couldnt do it.
We shall see...

Not sure of the article you read but in Jorge Cervantes' indoor grow bible he does say that he has talked with some canadian growers that use 6 on 12 off for flowering, he states he has doubts but has yet to visit their gardens to see the results. Maybe that would be a little more productive vs the 18 hours of dark.

USbeginnerguy · Apr 17, 2015

thenotsoesoteric said:
Not sure of the article you read but in Jorge Cervantes' indoor grow bible he does say that he has talked with some canadian growers that use 6 on 12 off for flowering, he states he has doubts but has yet to visit their gardens to see the results. Maybe that would be a little more productive vs the 18 hours of dark.

Wouldnt 6 on 12 off still kind of be 12/12 just broken up differently, basically 6 on 12 off 6 on? Either way TORONTOKE keep us in the loop great work and good luck!

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

The article this technique is from is last issue of skunk magazine. The article is controlling your cannabis part deux by joe pietri.
Ive read online that him and jorge are bitter enemies so i consider his opinion biased.

chuck estevez · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
The article this technique is from is last issue of skunk magazine. The article is controlling your cannabis part deux by joe pietri.
Ive read online that him and jorge are bitter enemies so i consider his opinion biased.

Joe has a face book page for advanced lighting if you're willing to join

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

I went on it and read up a bunch and checked out some of the pics but i cant sign up and use my name n shit for obvious reasons.
Perhaps one day

thenotsoesoteric · Apr 17, 2015

USbeginnerguy said:
Wouldnt 6 on 12 off still kind of be 12/12 just broken up differently, basically 6 on 12 off 6 on? Either way TORONTOKE keep us in the loop great work and good luck!

No 6 on and 12 off does not equal 12/12, it equal 12/24. So they are completely different.

thenotsoesoteric · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
The article this technique is from is last issue of skunk magazine. The article is controlling your cannabis part deux by joe pietri.
Ive read online that him and jorge are bitter enemies so i consider his opinion biased.

Werd, to be fair though Jorge's book did come out in like 2000 or so. He updates them but it's old information, I'll check out that article. Cheers man.

Gaz29 · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
After tasting these strains grown out at my buddies i was super excited to get in the cab for an update.
I must say some of my optimism is waning.
While all the plants are definately flowering they dont seem to growing or packing on any weight.
Will give em another week and if i dont see any size increase in the buds i will add an hour to flower and see if that helps.
I also lowered the light by 5" hopefully the temp stays managable.

Why not go straight to 8 hrs Torontoke..? I reckon eight hours will help with fattening them up..
Hope u took clones (ha ;-)

,as seems these strains are good.. Wishing you luck!

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

Gaz29 said:
Why not go straight to 8 hrs Torontoke..? I reckon eight hours will help with fattening them up..
Hope u took clones (ha ,as seems these strains are good.. Wishing you luck!

Theres a pile of clones at my other room thats why these looked so lanky in the begining lol
To give the experiment a fair chance is the only reason i havent played with the timer.

Im excited they flowered and didnt herm or die so im optimistic about playing with the timer later and dialing in the maximum yield on total least amount of electric usage.
This isnt strictly about yield or i would just run a bunch critical or big bud like everyone else.

numberfour · Apr 17, 2015

I'm intrigued by this, thanks for sharing and good luck.

_MrBelvedere_ · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
No they are stretchy cus the cabinet gets super hot and i cant keep the light as close as id like.
They look way stretchier in the pics then they are tho.
The tallest stretchiest one is only 20"tall.

Super hot and bad lighting? Not much of an experiment... Why not focus on growing it correctly?

Hot Diggity Sog · Apr 17, 2015

USbeginnerguy said:
Wouldnt 6 on 12 off still kind of be 12/12 just broken up differently, basically 6 on 12 off 6 on? Either way TORONTOKE keep us in the loop great work and good luck!

That's worth looking in to.

torontoke · Apr 17, 2015

_MrBelvedere_ said:
Super hot and bad lighting? Not much of an experiment... Why not focus on growing it correctly?

Thank you
But i will continue to do with my experiment as i like.

As stated this isnt a cabinet i rely on to provide myself meds.
However i read an article and decided to tinker and try something out.
I understand and respect your opinion and thank you for taking the time to respond.

Hot Diggity Sog · Apr 17, 2015

torontoke said:
Thank you
But i will continue to do with my experiment as i like.

As stated this isnt a cabinet i rely on to provide myself meds.
However i read an article and decided to tinker and try something out.
I understand and respect your opinion and thank you for taking the time to respond.

Stay on target. A lot of people are very interested in what you are doing so just keep going. Thanks!

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