HerBnGorE(illa)
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Have a quick question concerning photoperiod for some of the experienced folks here on icmag. bare with me, as im not sure exactly how to express my question.
indoor gardens operate with a veg area with short nights, and a flower area with long nights. And it is the long nights that trigger for a plant to flower.
typically, in an indoor garden, people use 12/12 to put the plant into flowering. Outdoors is another story. As the nights get longer, eventually they become long enough that the plant begins to flower. The amount of night it takes to begin flowering varies from plant to plant.
This leads me to my question/questions...
last year i helped a friend who grows outdoors. he had lost some plants early in the season due to weather. i gave him a few clones to take out just as his original plants began to show sex. this of course made the clones flower immediately because the nighttime hours were long enough. which gave him some nice small plants right on schedule. no problems. exactly what we were expecting.
in this example the nights are getting shorter each evening by a minute or so.
my question is, could this technique be used BEFORE the beginning of a season? i would assume that as long as the hours of night stays higher than the "critical flowering point" everything would be fine. but im not sure if the increasing day time, rather than losing a minute in the fall, would make it not work.
i figure if i found a very cold hardy strain and put out mature clones early enough that i could give it 8 weeks to flower before the day length made it begin to re-veg.
would this work, or would the day to day increasing of day length cause reveging despite the number of night time hours??
sure hope that makes sense.....
indoor gardens operate with a veg area with short nights, and a flower area with long nights. And it is the long nights that trigger for a plant to flower.
typically, in an indoor garden, people use 12/12 to put the plant into flowering. Outdoors is another story. As the nights get longer, eventually they become long enough that the plant begins to flower. The amount of night it takes to begin flowering varies from plant to plant.
This leads me to my question/questions...
last year i helped a friend who grows outdoors. he had lost some plants early in the season due to weather. i gave him a few clones to take out just as his original plants began to show sex. this of course made the clones flower immediately because the nighttime hours were long enough. which gave him some nice small plants right on schedule. no problems. exactly what we were expecting.
in this example the nights are getting shorter each evening by a minute or so.
my question is, could this technique be used BEFORE the beginning of a season? i would assume that as long as the hours of night stays higher than the "critical flowering point" everything would be fine. but im not sure if the increasing day time, rather than losing a minute in the fall, would make it not work.
i figure if i found a very cold hardy strain and put out mature clones early enough that i could give it 8 weeks to flower before the day length made it begin to re-veg.
would this work, or would the day to day increasing of day length cause reveging despite the number of night time hours??
sure hope that makes sense.....
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