sonygarden
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Hey all, and thank you in advance as always. I had a few questions about light schedules, and some help adjusting a light schedule.
I recieved my clones back in early march, and the guy that gave them to me said they were under lights 24/7. I slowly reduced them to 18 hours on / 6 off, but turning my timer back by one hour, ever 3 days. So they are now currently vegging at 18 hours. lights go out at 3 am and come on at 9 am. Im sure this was a mistake, but alas, this is where im at. Soon they are getting ready to go out into the greenhouses, and will be light depped. Im in southern oregon, and currently the sun is coming up between 6-7 and goes down around 7-8, so im roughly at 14 hours natural day light. I overlooked the fact that the plants will have to adjust to this new light schedule, and wanted to know whats my best course of action? My partner seems really upset and peeved at this issue, and insists that if i drop the hours of light too quick to match the outside light, it will stress or flip them. My thought is this.. Since the greenhouse wont be up for another week or 2, im thinking about dropping an hour off of "on" time in my veg room, every 3 days, until they are down to 14 hours from 18 hours...which would take about 2 weeks if i cut back an hour every 3 days. Im just wondering your advice on how to most safely do this with out stressing the plants. Furthermore, since im running out of room in my veg room, id like to bring them outside since weve had good weather, and just throw a few t5's or regular bulbs out there to make sure they dont slip into 12 hours of darkness at any point. Thanks for reading and thank you for any advice!!
--short version since i yap a lot
plants are vegging with 18 hours of light daily- lights off at 3am, on at 9 am
natural sun comes up roughly 6:30 am to 7:40 pm
Safest way to cut down to 14 hours of light, and any suggestions as for putting them outside with supplemental light.
I recieved my clones back in early march, and the guy that gave them to me said they were under lights 24/7. I slowly reduced them to 18 hours on / 6 off, but turning my timer back by one hour, ever 3 days. So they are now currently vegging at 18 hours. lights go out at 3 am and come on at 9 am. Im sure this was a mistake, but alas, this is where im at. Soon they are getting ready to go out into the greenhouses, and will be light depped. Im in southern oregon, and currently the sun is coming up between 6-7 and goes down around 7-8, so im roughly at 14 hours natural day light. I overlooked the fact that the plants will have to adjust to this new light schedule, and wanted to know whats my best course of action? My partner seems really upset and peeved at this issue, and insists that if i drop the hours of light too quick to match the outside light, it will stress or flip them. My thought is this.. Since the greenhouse wont be up for another week or 2, im thinking about dropping an hour off of "on" time in my veg room, every 3 days, until they are down to 14 hours from 18 hours...which would take about 2 weeks if i cut back an hour every 3 days. Im just wondering your advice on how to most safely do this with out stressing the plants. Furthermore, since im running out of room in my veg room, id like to bring them outside since weve had good weather, and just throw a few t5's or regular bulbs out there to make sure they dont slip into 12 hours of darkness at any point. Thanks for reading and thank you for any advice!!
--short version since i yap a lot
plants are vegging with 18 hours of light daily- lights off at 3am, on at 9 am
natural sun comes up roughly 6:30 am to 7:40 pm
Safest way to cut down to 14 hours of light, and any suggestions as for putting them outside with supplemental light.