Please help about temperature in flowering cycle

[hoffmister]

Hey guys iv heard or read that high temps over 26 while flowering can lead to terpeans and tricomes degrading my temps are around 27/28 am i a running a risk of this happening later on in my flowering cycle? im currently in week 3 after changing the light cycle to 12/12 if I am running a risk what can I do to drop the temp down a little bit?

Thanks

 

[JIMKSI64]

Yes commercial growers and university studies have proven higher temps reduce potency.
Strain specific but some were up to 20% reduced from control.
The damage is progressive with higher temps.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Yes commercial growers and university studies have proven higher temps reduce potency.
Strain specific but some were up to 20% reduced from control.
The damage is progressive with higher temps.

Thats the problem with Southern Cal outdoor growing, temps are usually still spiking in the 90's through October. You lose your monoterps first, the grapefruit and pine smells. If a plant gets a couple consecutive hot days, it will restore some of the smell in a day or two as the plant generates more but you don't get back what you lose. A good way to preserve those monoterps is drop your temperature below 70 degrees (sorry, I use Fahrenheit because, well... 'Murica) and/or harvest your plant before the lights kick on for the day.