Plant timing

A friend of mine told me to change my light cycle to 8 hours a day rather than 12 12, his explanation for this was because the plant is like 5 feet tall and I dont want to encourage anymore vegitative growth... I have had it on a 8 hour a day of light schedule for the past week. Is this a bad idea?

No don't do that my friend... more light = more bud. Your plant will also be more likely to achieve genetic potency levels.

tanman0813 said:

A friend of mine told me to change my light cycle to 8 hours a day rather than 12 12, his explanation for this was because the plant is like 5 feet tall and I dont want to encourage anymore vegitative growth... I have had it on a 8 hour a day of light schedule for the past week. Is this a bad idea?

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1. Find a new friend ... one that will give you proper growing advice.

2. The natural light cycle for flowering plants is 12/12.

3. If your plants are five feet tall going into the flowering cycle, they will grow approximately twice that high during the flowering cycle. If ten-foot plants are too high for your ceiling ... next time start flowering sooner. For example, I usually start flowering at around 15" and end up with plants that are around 2.5' tall at harvest.

If you only have one plant, you can train it under a screen ... like chicken wire. As the plant stretches during flowering, just keep pulling the bud sites up through the holes in the screen. This is called the Screen of Green (scrog) technique. As each bud site grows toward the light, the idea is to fill the entire screen with but sites.

Vi

What time of year is the natural light cycle on an 8 hour light 16 hour dark schedule,the correct answer is winter time,this is telling your plant it should be dead,not a good thing.

Please stop listening to your friend on any subject about growing,people like him like to talk all kinds of goofy shit they know nothing about,it makes them feel cool,i have a good friend who smokes like an ounce every week,he thinks because he smokes tons of dope he's a know it all of growing.

This guy has an areo garden & thinks he'll get a pound out of it,he was showing it off to me but he has no idea i grow,he started telling me about how once the plants get bigger how he will reinforce the light with black light to replicate the hydro method where the plants are grown under water

I just kept saying how cool it all was.

People are idiots,read & learn what you need to know from grow sites, not morons who like to talk.

Thanks guys, should i ease the plant back into a 12 12 schedule? or should i set my timer to 12 12 right away?

ViRedd said:

1. Find a new friend ... one that will give you proper growing advice.

2. The natural light cycle for flowering plants is 12/12.

3. If your plants are five feet tall going into the flowering cycle, they will grow approximately twice that high during the flowering cycle. If ten-foot plants are too high for your ceiling ... next time start flowering sooner. For example, I usually start flowering at around 15" and end up with plants that are around 2.5' tall at harvest.

If you only have one plant, you can train it under a screen ... like chicken wire. As the plant stretches during flowering, just keep pulling the bud sites up through the holes in the screen. This is called the Screen of Green (scrog) technique. As each bud site grows toward the light, the idea is to fill the entire screen with but sites.

Vi

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Also, Does anyone have any pictures of how to do make the chicken wire screen to prevent it from hitting the cieling? Im going to need to do this. Thanks!

I was reading somewhere (maybe an off shoot of here, probably not) About a flowering schedule of (ok, I'm a little drunk and a bit forgettable, but don't roast me too bad)

But it was for I think (given the aforementioned sate) 14/20 That winds up giving the grower a 'day' or so more over a month. But still gives the rest period. i gives you an extra day or so per month of light. But I think nutes and such are needed to make it work. Basically a stable grow.

I'm curious as to who has used it and if its worth the trouble.

panhead said:

What time of year is the natural light cycle on an 8 hour light 16 hour dark schedule,the correct answer is winter time,this is telling your plant it should be dead,not a good thing.
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Telling the plant it should be dead? lol

You honestly think that this guy who has been flowering his plant with an 8 hour schedule for a week is going to believe that?

You're wrong... all the plant knows is that it's getting 8 hours to photo' with...

What do you believe plants think under a 24/0 light schedule?