I'm curious to see if anyone has tried different ways of inducing flowering with various different light schedules.
I think the general consensus is to make plants flower indoors, just turn the lights to 12/12. But, there are some people who say that 24 or 48 hours of darkness helps them to flower faster than just 12/12.
Then, on the other hand, some people say "my power has been off for ____ hours/days, is this going to make my plants flower?" and usually people say "don't worry about it they will be fine, just keep them on the same schedule they were on before the outage" or something to that effect.
So it seems like there is some conflicting information on this topic. I've always just flipped them to 12/12 and never thought much about it, until now. I don't think 24 or 48 hours of darkness would do anything but delay, but I could be wrong, now 24 to 48 hours of darkness at the end of flowering is a different story.
So what about longer dark periods for the first week of flowering, like maybe 10/14. I would think that might be more effective than just regular 12/12. I would think the solid dark period at the beginning of flowering would just confuse the plant, whereas 10/14 would send a solid message. Then after the first week of 10/14 go to 11/13 on the second week and 12/12 on the third week.
Has anyone tried this, what were the results using the same strain?
I think the general consensus is to make plants flower indoors, just turn the lights to 12/12. But, there are some people who say that 24 or 48 hours of darkness helps them to flower faster than just 12/12.
Then, on the other hand, some people say "my power has been off for ____ hours/days, is this going to make my plants flower?" and usually people say "don't worry about it they will be fine, just keep them on the same schedule they were on before the outage" or something to that effect.
So it seems like there is some conflicting information on this topic. I've always just flipped them to 12/12 and never thought much about it, until now. I don't think 24 or 48 hours of darkness would do anything but delay, but I could be wrong, now 24 to 48 hours of darkness at the end of flowering is a different story.
So what about longer dark periods for the first week of flowering, like maybe 10/14. I would think that might be more effective than just regular 12/12. I would think the solid dark period at the beginning of flowering would just confuse the plant, whereas 10/14 would send a solid message. Then after the first week of 10/14 go to 11/13 on the second week and 12/12 on the third week.
Has anyone tried this, what were the results using the same strain?
