light cycle, week 4 flower
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ImarriedMARY
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well your week 4 now so i'd stick with it but normally people suggest 12/12 cause that one extra hour may help even a little ya know but i'm not sure i haven't tryed 13/11 on
ImarriedMARY
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do you have a journal or some pix? i wanna see how it looks
ImarriedMARY
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yeah looks good so far but it would have been recommended to leave it 12/12 and if you do it now theres a chance of stressing your plant
Bigol'Bong
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think about nature, most northern climates get close to 14 hours of light as day and yet plants still flower. some strains, i think it was more true for indica's, can flower under 14/10 and finish as they normally would, 12/12 is a good shock to force them into flowering as they know they should deffinatly be flowering as 12/12.
Medicalimedical
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I use for transition cycle from veg to flower a 6 on and 18 off cycle for a week, and pick off all terminal shoots (the older leaves the ones that will die first ) this will increase the auxin flow prevent stretching and give light to where your flowers will be, and induce more lateral buds. Flush the plant with fresh clean water, and fertlize with flower nutes, Then I slowly move it to 10-12 hours of light then slowly drop it back down to 8, This will cause the plant to get more dense with fresh new flowers, this will also increase your chance of your buds reaching eachother resulting in more full cola branches. To keep from shocking the plant when reducing your hours adujust your times by using a half hour max at beginning and end to fool the plant that winter is coming. This works well with both strains indica and sativa. I invert the lighting cycle because my veg time is 16-18 hours on and 6-8 hours off. I usually always have a high number of trichones everywhere, dense great tasting pot that taste like the seed company describes.
Its the first time i read something like this on the net after probably reaing 1000 pages of info...sounds pretty interesting...m little confused but still trying to figure it out..thanks mate
Medicalimedical
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if any of it confuses you mate I can word it differently...but if it helps is all I care about. I hope that you can use this info to your advantage it has been working good for me. I try to have the best cleanist product I can. Cheers.
thnks for reply mate..just a lil bit in setting light duration in different phases is what i need to understand