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18/6 vs 24/0 search help
- Thread starter Banjoboy
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They seem to veg just fine under 24/0 PLUS it seems you get the added benefit of the plants KNOWING they should be flowering once you hit them with 12/12 or less. At least that's how it seems from my experiences. I find there is a little "lag" in the flower onset from 18/6 compared to when vegged under 24/0
I used 24/0 for the first and second grows, but then I saw someone that did a pretty good comparison of veg times. They used all the same clone, and did some with 24/0, some with 20/4, some with 18/6, and maybe one other timing. The ones that vegged with 20/4 yielded the most, so that's what I use. The only difference it is to me is I have to plug the timer in for veg too, not too big of a deal.
Sorry I don't have that comparison, I think it was on another forum somewhere and I have no idea where to start looking. If anyone else has seen it maybe they can post it.
Sorry I don't have that comparison, I think it was on another forum somewhere and I have no idea where to start looking. If anyone else has seen it maybe they can post it.
G
Guest
GI-DRO said:
Explain how the law of diminishing returns would apply after 18 hours... especially with a plant that can only grow with the lights on? (photosynthesis...) 24/0... thats 6 more hours of growth potential per day, so to speak...
GorillaGrower
Member
yeah this thread was just done about 2 months ago. .. end result..
its obvious that 24/0 works well.. but isn't natural and if you go with 20/4 or 18/6 you will only experience positives, there isn't a single negative thing .. if you need your veg growth "that" fast.. you already messed up and didn't plan veg times correctly. fix that.
Here's a link to that thread: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=61114&highlight=18/6+24/0
its obvious that 24/0 works well.. but isn't natural and if you go with 20/4 or 18/6 you will only experience positives, there isn't a single negative thing .. if you need your veg growth "that" fast.. you already messed up and didn't plan veg times correctly. fix that.
Here's a link to that thread: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=61114&highlight=18/6+24/0
GorillaGrower
Member
Indica Sativa said:
and 6 more hours of electricity that doesn't give you near the returns that it did in the first 18 hrs .. thats diminishing returns on your electric bill= enviroment + wallet
then add in benefits of 18 or 20 hr. and its not much of a decision
G
Guest
my plants are happier on 18/6 than they are 24 hrs...it took my stuburned ass a long time to realize this..
Banjoboy said:
gunnaknow
Active member
For god sake!! I just clicked on the link someone pasted above and someone has already pasted the same information from Oldtimer1 in the thread in the link. I spent 15 minutes searching for the original post by Oldtimer1, which is on uk420.com, only to find out that someone has already posted a link above to a thread where the information from Oltimer1 has already been pasted. It really makes me look like an idiot, so I had to explain here that I didn't just take the same literature from the link above, I went over to the original source on UK420 and searched for Oldtimer1's old posts for 15 minutes! Sigh!
Here it is.
http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?s=&showtopic=35728&view=findpost&p=334916
Here it is.
http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?s=&showtopic=35728&view=findpost&p=334916
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