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I’m trying to get it to 16 on 8 off so it’s closer to the schedule outside for when put it out. I just cut back 4 hours, do you think cutting another 4 so soon will shock it even further into flowering? I feel like that would be counter productive.set ur timer to 18 on 6 off, and just leave them on that schedule until flower.
After a lot of thought I think what I’m going to do is set lights to the same schedule as they are going to be on outside since they are going to have to adjust to that anyways I might as well get it started now and let the girls decide what they want to do. That’ll be around 16 on so they might start to re-veg a little sooner if I start now. I won’t have the option of finish flowering indoors as they will be too big. So I’m going to get that started today and see how the girls adapt. If they want to flower now that’s fine or if they want to go the full season that’s even better. I just hope they don’t get stuck in some sort of limbo where they don’t flower or veg and the season ends. Let’s see how this goes!My humble opinion says....and what I'm doing because I messed up my timing...
Switch them to 12/12 and let them start flowering. Can't be avoided, they're trying to flower anyway...
When the weather is good, put them outside. They'll have to take time to reveg...but you'll be increasing their amount of light this way...and they should then flower again normally when the time comes.
Mine are going out next week with 3 weeks of buds on them. Thankfully we have a really long growing season here...if you've got a short season outside, you may as well finish them indoors as reveg can take a month sometime
Ok so here is my opinion. A cannabis plants needs to be mature I order to induce flowering. This can take up to 6 weeks. Now why is this important because even if you change the light cycle a plant that is not mature will not start flowering.
If they are clones however it's likely they are mature from the get go.
If they are seeds you have some time where you could drop from 24hr light to 16hr light without issue.
So how to tell if a plant is mature? Probably the easiest is look for alternating nodes. If the nodes are alternating then the plant is mature. I won't get into all the identifying factors as you can easily Google all that shit.
But if these are seeds less than 3 weeks old you should not have any issue changing the light cycle as you desire.
If they are mature then it's still unlikely to cause an issue but it has happened. Dropping from 24hr to 20 hrs of light is not going to be an issue but dropping 24hrs to 16 may be. Once you get around 10+ hrs of dark then you need to be cautious.
So in short if it's not mature change the light in 1 swoop and be done.
If it is mature then drop to 20 and then 18 a few days later just to be safe even though it's highly and I mean highly unlikely. As I said it's the dark period that counts not the light period.
Like @Newber said I would just go 18/6 then maybe reduce light to 18/6 over a couple weeks in small increments to 16/8 if ya really want but I don't feel it necessaryThey are definitely mature I’m sure of that. So do you think I should gradually increase the dark or go straight to 16/8
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