I still have one that I am not sure about but think it could be a girl. The 4 boys have been moved to their own room and just had their first 12 hours of night.
AND I found some more mites on two plants that I removed from the room with the intent of culling them(These two where not any of the seedlings), this means its time to kill the bugs again.
So, when I transplanted the girls, I had all intention on making sure I re-labeled the new pots that they went into, well I forgot and only a few got labeled.
In one room, I did. now in the other I have some other kind of insect thats infesting my veg room and I'm not sure of what they are, but they are not spider mites...they are about as wide as a vein on a leaf and about 4 to 5 time longer than wide and their body is white.
Why yes, that is a Stanley blower fan. It keeps plenty of air moving to keep everything cool under the 1000w. I have had other fans crap out on me after a few months, and I've had stanley fans that are still going after 5-6 years and they give me way more air movement then what I could get with many house fans and it only take up a little space.
The Light Cycle, I think it could have an effect but I'm not sure which effect that it will be. In the "wild" the day light hours get longer and shorter and longer and shorter again. I have flowered plants with 13 hours on and 11 off, and I think I may have done a white rhino grow at 14/10 (might have been 13.5/10.5). So if they also react to the light getting less and less over so many days, besides the light being 12/12, and thus it simulates a more "natural" light cycle change or it should be more natural like. It always seams that it takes about 2 weeks for them (the plants) to start flowering and as a result they are still it a semi-veg state up until about the 14th day. So a little extra energy could go a long way during that time.
So I think that I can get a couple more days worth of lighting hours in in the first couple of weeks of flowering.
thats the best part about growing to me,its my room,i get to run it the way i see fit...
if you ran each cycle for a longer period it seems like you could find the ideal trigger point for a single strain garden,it could be the strain you are growing would flower just fine under a 14/10 cycle instead of 12/12 and those 2 extra hours of light could add a substantial amount of flowering time over a full cycle...