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Excuse the interruption ...
I'm still in the (half) dark ages with this photoperiod mentality... of the mindset that interrupting the schedule promotes hermaphroditism or foxtailing or whatever undesirable trait. (Bear with me - it's been a while.)
Not trying to question anyone's experience with using a different photoperiod, just curious if anyone has got some further reading for me specifically on the interruption/necessary duration of a night (or day) cycle for photos. In my (admittedly) brief search, I'm only finding information pertinent to autos.
That article you (amekins) linked made some concise sense of their requirements based on the plant's energy consumption and subsequently makes sense that, so long as you provide those parameters, the plants will flourish. But I'm interested to see what their adaptability (or prosperity?) to shorter, more frequent intervals might be.
I know in terms of kwh, you're not using any less power (though, maybe you are... if you can utilize this to minimize your environmental control.) But, for whatever reason, I do definitely like the idea of not having anything running for more uninterrupted time than need be. And, since we're generally not on metallic ballasts anymore, I don't see the startup draw being so much of an issue. And if it can benefit the plants? Even better.
Thanks. Piqued my intrigue... will certainly be following.
I'm still in the (half) dark ages with this photoperiod mentality... of the mindset that interrupting the schedule promotes hermaphroditism or foxtailing or whatever undesirable trait. (Bear with me - it's been a while.)
Not trying to question anyone's experience with using a different photoperiod, just curious if anyone has got some further reading for me specifically on the interruption/necessary duration of a night (or day) cycle for photos. In my (admittedly) brief search, I'm only finding information pertinent to autos.
That article you (amekins) linked made some concise sense of their requirements based on the plant's energy consumption and subsequently makes sense that, so long as you provide those parameters, the plants will flourish. But I'm interested to see what their adaptability (or prosperity?) to shorter, more frequent intervals might be.
I know in terms of kwh, you're not using any less power (though, maybe you are... if you can utilize this to minimize your environmental control.) But, for whatever reason, I do definitely like the idea of not having anything running for more uninterrupted time than need be. And, since we're generally not on metallic ballasts anymore, I don't see the startup draw being so much of an issue. And if it can benefit the plants? Even better.
Thanks. Piqued my intrigue... will certainly be following.