archer.. sry if i rambled bit, but i been make n brownies all day.had one and smoked 2.:animbong:
Yeah, gotta watch smokin' them brownies, they'll get you all fucked up!
'Way back in the dark ages (no pun intended), I ran my entire flower cycle at 10 hours light, 14 dark. I did it for power consumption reasons, and I did it with Indica plants, a cross with Northern Lights in it. I also flowered for only 6 weeks, and had a perpetual system set up to get crops on a 20-21 day rotation. Since neither I nor my friends knew any better, we never tried to go longer.
Since it was only one 1000W hood, the crops weren't huge, but they were consistent and some of the best smoke my friends and I had ever had.
I can't say if the short lighting cycle had much to do with the short flowering times because I never tried different variations- what I had worked, so I didn't screw with it! Thinking back on it, I think I just got lucky with an Indica strain, a 10 hour day length and a short 6 week flowering cycle and got great results.
So much for anecdotal evidence- in the wild, plants MUST start to mature before they actually see a full 12 hours of darkness, otherwise they wouldn't finish their lifecycle between Sept 21 and the onset of frost in most temperate climates, let alone mountain grown Indica or Kush varieties.
On the other hand, I think many factors influence the floweng cycle and I bet length of darkness is one of them.
