caveman4.20
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heres what i have to chose from to find what will prosper with the GAS LANTERN LIGHT SCHEDULE...
I was shooting for that reduced lighting after the gas lantern schedule for veg but i did something wrong on transition somewhere cuz im on day 26 and flowers are barely bulking up or starting to stack but nothing like the pro indoor guys here at the farm...
That's all it is, interrupting the photoperiod? I assumed you meant actually growing with a gas lantern, assuming you were after phytochrome manipulation.I am actually looking for someone qualified to enlighten me also...this is the limited amount that i know.
veg. 12 on 51/2off 1on 51/2 off =24hrs
Flower 11 on 13 off
id like to here experienced experimenters and those with an opinion...
I gotta do some research before jumping into this one, what got me interested is a Botany nerd friend mentioned it but i didnt want to reveal my interest. He claims this fills the plant with flowering hormones and that hour inturruption in the veg. keeps the plant from sexing. The flowering time removes that hour of interuption allowing the plant to sex and flourish with an overload of natural flowering hormones.
My main concern is how males grow in this environment i dont need no superfast growing male pollinating everything over night>?
I wish you could come over and set up my timers for me Sea.;)That's all it is, interrupting the photoperiod? I assumed you meant actually growing with a gas lantern, assuming you were after phytochrome manipulation.
I use an interrupted photoperiod for two reasons--to get plants ready for going outside so that they don't flip into flower, and to save money on electricity. I've never interrupted the dark phase of the photoperiod for indoor flowering plants because that would cause them to go back into vegetative phase.
For vegging, I use two 2hr dark phase interruptions, with the daylight portion set to the day I plan on putting them out, usually in May. I use this calculator to figure my daylight: Daylight Hours Explorer
Vegetative phase plants are put on a 13hr 'day', with two major interruptions during their 'night' of 2hrs apiece. Make sense? This isn't my longest day, that's around 14.2hrs at my latitude, it's the day *I* want to put them out.
IME, going from 24/0 to 18/6 can cause plants to flip into flower. IME changing the photoperiod by just 1hr without interrupting the dark phase of the photoperiod can cause them to go into regenerative (flowering) phase.
No, I start them outside. I want the survivors, not the weaklings.Phytochrome manipulation sounds interesting...
Nice!
Well maybe a real gas lantern will do something i just read about this a few years ago in Treating Yourself mag.
Thanx for dropping in seamaiden and i appreciate the info...so its sounds like you start your seeds in the south window and use two hour interruption to prevent flowering before putting them out in may that sounds nice my last freeze is in the middle sometime late june its tough....
Phytochrome manipulation sounds interesting...
Nice!
Well maybe a real gas lantern will do something i just read about this a few years ago in Treating Yourself mag.
Thanx for dropping in seamaiden and i appreciate the info...so its sounds like you start your seeds in the south window and use two hour interruption to prevent flowering before putting them out in may that sounds nice my last freeze is in the middle sometime late june its tough....
No, I start them outside. I want the survivors, not the weaklings.
ALL of these seedlings survived, and I got a pretty damn good F:M ratio, strain depending.
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