ARRGH-----Timer broke and my lights stayed on!!!

[Yes4Prop215]

AHHHH hopefully this isnt too bad.

Basically im 2 weeks into flowering, my lights run from 12 in the afternoon to 12 at night.

Last night i guess the timer broke mid cycle, the lights ran from 12 in the afternoon to 10 the next morning, 22 hours of light!!

WHAT DO I DO??

Do i kill all the lights and let them stay in the dark for a good 12 hours, so start the lights at 10 tonight?

Or do i let the lights turn on again in 2 hours and just try to revert to regular schedule!!

Damn i need better timers, i keep cheaping out and buying the 9 dollar ones.

 

[Pythagllio]

Quick, hop in your time machine and swap out the timer before it fails!

Seriously, I've had occasion to have the night cycle interrupted with no problem in the end. I also have ended up with a room full of seeds. All you can do now is wait and watch closely for them nanners to show up. If they do, make oil. Don't think you can pull them off by hand one by one, the little fuckers are good at hiding.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

FUUUCK...they are only 2 weeks into flowering they can get nannners that quick?


What if i just turn the lights off until 10. that way yea they got alittle more light than usual, but they still get 12 hours of darkness then 12 hours of light to get back into the swing of things.

im thinking = 22 hours light - 12 hours dark - 12 hours light
instead of 22 hrs light - 2 hours dark - 12 hours light

 

[bongoie]

It's the dark peroid that work's the magic / set them back an hopefully everything will be fine .
Even if it's manually till you get this sorted

 

[steppinRazor]

strain depentant on whether it hermies or not.. i would just put'm back to scheduale in 2 hours.. back when i useto do somewhat large scale we were using a gas generator and as long as it was running we assumed the lights where too. big mistake there would be random black outs for hours at a time, some of the strains hermied BAD and one strain it had virtually no effect on it..

i think you'll be fine if it was just this one time.. make it a habbit and then you'll see some nanners

 

[Yes4Prop215]

alrite so let them stay in the dark for a good 12 hours then restart the cycle GOT IT!

gotta swing by the hydro store after class and get a NICE timer for once. i seriously got a box full of broken ass cheap timers.

 

[humble1]

Damn i need better timers, i keep cheaping out and buying the 9 dollar ones.

you're on the right track there.
i just had 2 different 70 dollar timers fail on me. they provided years of service, but that's besides the point. stuff breaks.
one of the timers was out for two weeks before i noticed anything.
anyhoo, what's worse: a timer that fails in the on position or a timer that fails in the off position?

 

[redspaghetti]

^^ i agree with razor,

back then i ran 3 different strains flowering and a lot of time my cheap ass timer broke, basically sometime lights are on 24 hours a day instead of 12. I noticed only 1 strain out of 3 turn nanners on me.
The run was g13 poison, grand daddy purp ( ken cut ? ) and Og hero ( billybob cut )
Out of 3, G13 turn nanners and it was fullblown with little goddamn ballz.

 

[Pistil_Party09]

broken timers are the worst...
the best timer money can buy is a person.
watch that shit....
if i was going to leave for days i would rig up a network camera inside my box ( already own it) and check that shit from my cellphone.

 

[steppinRazor]

anyone else just notice the
'Did you find this post helpful?' at the bottom of each post?
wtf is up with that?

 

[bongoie]

Skip just done it to thank a usefull post or rate a thread

 

[krunchbubble]

no biggie at all. alot of people think that if the light or dark cycle is interrupted in the slightest, your plants will herm. this is not the case. if it was, id be in big time trouble. just go on with your regular cycle, everything will be just fine!

it would be bad if you interrupted the cycle on a continuous basis. but a couple times will do no harm, unless your genetics are extremely prone to herming, then you may have a problem with an interrupted night cycle. the genetics you have, are not herm pron.....

 

[SuperConductor]

Doesn't matter how expensive your timer is if it's made to run with resistive load (which they all are pretty much) it'll fail eventually because our lights use inductive load.

What you need is a contactor/relay and what this site needs is a sticky on the subject in the grower forums cos it seems like noone knows this. I know nothing of electrics myself but I know this because it's useful for growing and keeping my house from burning down.

 

[good drown]

i dont like the cheaply made little white timeres.
i got 2 outdoor heavy duty timers online for $10 each. they look WAY better made then most indoor timers, made to withstand weather, and as a PLUS, each 15 minutes of the day has its own on off switch, so 96 swtiches in total. you COULD have the lights go on every 15 minutes then off if you wanted. I bet one could use it hooked up to a fan for some c02. have the fan turn off every few hours so c02 can kick on. ge makes it, i think i got 2 shipped for less than $20.

 

[buckeye-leaf]

no biggie at all. alot of people think that if the light or dark cycle is interrupted in the slightest, your plants will herm. this is not the case. if it was, id be in big time trouble. just go on with your regular cycle, everything will be just fine!

it would be bad if you interrupted the cycle on a continuous basis. but a couple times will do no harm, unless your genetics are extremely prone to herming, then you may have a problem with an interrupted night cycle. the genetics you have, are not herm pron.....

i agree 1 bad cycle will be ok, a big wind storm came threw here about 2 years ago and electric went out for 7 days....after the 2nd day i went and bought a generator and everything was fine

 

[Pythagllio]

you're on the right track there.
i just had 2 different 70 dollar timers fail on me. they provided years of service, but that's besides the point. stuff breaks.
one of the timers was out for two weeks before i noticed anything.
anyhoo, what's worse: a timer that fails in the on position or a timer that fails in the off position?

You guys are using analog timers? Can a digital timer fail in the on position? I've had them fail, but they always cut the lights off rather than leave them on.

 

[Pythagllio]

^^ i agree with razor,

back then i ran 3 different strains flowering and a lot of time my cheap ass timer broke, basically sometime lights are on 24 hours a day instead of 12. I noticed only 1 strain out of 3 turn nanners on me.
The run was g13 poison, grand daddy purp ( ken cut ? ) and Og hero ( billybob cut )
Out of 3, G13 turn nanners and it was fullblown with little goddamn ballz.

Oh my, didn't that produce feminized G-13 seeds? I actually had the cooling system fail last year and the temps got up over 100 and my long proven female hermied. Am I mistaken in thinking that the resulting seeds are feminized? There shouldn't have been any male DNA involved. Oh well, I'm getting ready to pop them just for kicks and giggles so I guess I'll know for certain by May.

 

[steppinRazor]

Oh my, didn't that produce feminized G-13 seeds? I actually had the cooling system fail last year and the temps got up over 100 and my long proven female hermied. Am I mistaken in thinking that the resulting seeds are feminized? There shouldn't have been any male DNA involved. Oh well, I'm getting ready to pop them just for kicks and giggles so I guess I'll know for certain by May.

in my experience yes, all ive popped have been female.. supposedly you have a higher chance of hermies from self produced seeds but the ones i ran turned out just fine

 

[Dimebagg]

I'd just wait the extra 2 hours and get back on your normal schedule. Ive had the same thing happen to me, about the same amount of daylight too. Went back to normal schedule, none of my 5 plants at the time hermied.

 

[medi-useA]

This HAS happened to me before..many manual timers just cannot seem to handle the voltage/amperage/wh@ever...

I have found when this happens the LEAST damage is done if you IMMEDIATELY give ya plants @least 12 hrs darkness...sometimes a bit more...
get ya hrs back to normal, but take day with less light to get it back to normal timing...

In MY Experience, as long as the plant get's @least 12 hrs darkness all the time, then extensions of light hours is not a major problem...

summation...always give 12 hrs darkness...never less, when this happens....even if it means you have a 4-5 hr 'day' and then back to normal 12/12 timing...

NOTE this is all OPINION based on thought, introspection and experience...it is NOT an absolute...


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