Sean Tom
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![Weed Leaf :leaf: :leaf:](/styles/smilies/weed.gif)
INITIAL SCHEDULE: 8:00AM LIGHTS OFF & 8:00PM LIGHTS ON (Looked up my electricity peak hours and ran lights opposite)
About a week ago I was a few minutes late to turn on my lights for them. I don't use a timer because this is my first grow and 1. I want all hands on; 2. I read numerous places that giving far-red light prior to dark stage speeds up the time that the plant spends converting from grow to flower mode. (There are more exact terms that I don't want to confuse without the links. Will update with links though.) So, since I was late to give them light by 5 minutes, I decided to push them that way up until an hour. So for a week I started their lights 5 minutes later until it became 30 minutes off of normal schedule (simulating the change of seasons)
SCHEDULE: 8:00AM LIGHTS OFF & 8:30PM LIGHTS ON
This morning I awoke and began finishing the process. I thought yes time changes slowly through Fall but what else happens? Daylight savings time! So this morning that went into affect.
CURRENT SCHEDULE: 7:00AM LIGHTS OFF & 7:30 LIGHTS ON (Notice I did not add the five minutes today. I figured the hour jump was enough for the day. lol)
So in a week the women will be under their final schedule, which mimics OUR, the plant, and everything else in this world's natural conditions.
FINAL SCHEDULE: 7:00AM LIGHTS OFF & 8:00AM LIGHTS ON
Representing the gradual change in time along with daylight savings. Notice, well here in Cali, we get sunshine roughly at 7 get dark near six during late Fall. That is 13 hours of dark and 11 hours of light. I mimicked it!
PLEASE AS I STATED INITIALLY, WHO KNOWS IF THIS MAKES A DIFFERENCE? OPINIONS, THOUGHTS, and QUESTIONS ALL WELCOME