Ask a Grow Question
Ask your grow question to get it answered on the Dude Grows Podcast.
Organizer:
- Organized by
-
-
Gas lantern routine anyone ?
-
Gas lantern routine anyone ?
Thinking of trying this in veg to save some money. People also claim that helps speed up flower. People also think it’s nuts. Lights would be
12 on 5 1/2 off 1 on 5 1/2 off
The 1 hour on prevents going into flower. Saves 5 hours of electricity increases a hormone for flowering. Probably confuse energy company too. What could go wrong? What does the DGC say?
-
16 Replies
-
Why the interrupted night cycle? Why not just do 13/11?
-
Just guessing too close to 12/12 would maybe start flowering?
-
Also seen someone use a 60w cfl for the hour on so it doesn’t seem like it needs a whole lot to disrupt the flower cycle. I’ll keep the DGC posted but if I can save a few bucks and maybe get faster flower I’m taking the gamble
-
They’ll flower at 14/10 in many cases, 13/11 is still flower lighting. I don’t understand what the point of the break in the night cycle is for?
-
People have done the testing. They are going with these numbers due to the scientific testing done. If I remember correctly the number was 13.5 hours is the actual split time where the plant won’t flip to flower.
-
-
-
-
The Plant be like, “WTF is wrong with the Sun? I ain’t doing shit until it’s fixed!” 🤣
-
We can’t turn the sun off during the day and turn it back on at 1 AM. What lights are you running trying to save energy costs with? If it’s heat and costs, run your lights at night off peak hours.
In other words boy, now you’re playing with fire. 🤣.
-
Maybe a 30% savings on electric (bad with math) but interesting if they flower sooner once flipped.
-
And to add to that, try a Fast Flower and see if that knocks off a couple weeks off the total grow which in turn either gives you down time (savings), or more yield over the year offsetting the cost to run the setup. Now I’m wondering….LOL
-
Realistically, run your lights at night if you’re worried about that little. But once you go to flower you can’t play anymore.
-
-
-
Gas light/lamp veg cycles work okay. I used this tech for a couple years. The general idea (as explained by the group I learned it from) was you’re saving money by spending less on lighting… The other “alleged benefit” is by breaking up the plants dark cycle in the middle of the “night”, the plant stays on the verge of flower, so that when you flip, the auxins are already fired up and the transition to flower takes less time.
Again, not facts, just how things were explained to me by a weed cult I was in once. Lol.
I like 24/0 for veg. Faster and better growth. They can sleep when they flower. ✌️🤙
-
This reply was modified 7 hours, 55 minutes ago by Hash.
-
That’s what I’m getting. Definitely info on the inter webs. For the record I’m going to start it tomorrow. I’ve got two plants ready to flip so I’ll see. Plan on running 2 weeks like that and then flip just to see what happens. If all goes well I’ll try the whole next veg that way
-
This reply was modified 7 hours, 55 minutes ago by
-
I’ve got 2 Jack Herer clones close to ready to flip. I’m going switch the timing tomorrow. Hopefully I can grow them a few weeks before they are ready to flip. Got to watch the stretch I’ve grown this before. Just see if anything funky happens. I’ll post pics tomorrow
-
-
So I’m gonna change the time now. They are Jack Herer clones. Grown it a couple times so I have some familiarity. Hopefully I can experiment for a couple weeks before they get too tall. Gonna mostly run side lights for now and use one of the top lights for the hour on. ACI control doesn’t seem to work for more than one light cycle day. Anyway don’t really have anything to lose be interesting to see what they do if flower comes faster when I go 12/12
-
Log in to reply.
