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I would leave a CFL on during the 'off' period.
I don't know why you would want to do this and you may have created a special way of doing it but if the average grower tries this I can't imagine it turning out well. I like to experiment as well but what is the purpose of doing this?Yes, you can interrupt the dark cycle and they won't hermie on you. I've been doing it this way for over two years now.
Hmm, thats two who have said you can disrupt the dark cycle. So I went back and read the original post and I now see my problem. 1. The title of your post says flower but in the post it clearly indicates veg. There is a lot of things you can do in veg that you can't do in flower. 2. I specialize in Chemdog and this strain is just waiting to herm. Sorry for the bad info.i have never tried it but im guessing that would definitely lead you down the wrong path and probably would end up herming a plant. and i have interrupted the dark cycle as well started them 2 hours early cuz i was in a rush to feed. as long as you leave the light on you should be ok. but if u interrupt then turn it back off again is were u will run into problems. this is also strain dependent as well soem lines are just rock solid and it takes quite of bit of stress to affect them. and others like sour d or chem and its crosses will have trouble at the slightest thing
The very specific purposes are two-fold. First, it means that you don't have to stay married to a photoperiod like 18/6 (insert photoperiod of choice). But the much more important reason is because I will grow outdoors for as long as I'm physically able. However, I don't just grow seed starts, very often I will have something from the previous year that I really want to run again, so I keep cuts that will go out that following spring.I don't know why you would want to do this and you may have created a special way of doing it but if the average grower tries this I can't imagine it turning out well. I like to experiment as well but what is the purpose of doing this?
Wait a minute! I haven't esplained myself yet. :)
The very specific purposes are two-fold. First, it means that you don't have to stay married to a photoperiod like 18/6 (insert photoperiod of choice). But the much more important reason is because I will grow outdoors for as long as I'm physically able. However, I don't just grow seed starts, very often I will have something from the previous year that I really want to run again, so I keep cuts that will go out that following spring.
Cuttings--how to grow them indoors in a manner that will (hopefully?) ensure that they don't immediately go into flower when they're placed outdoors? Interrupted photoperiod. That means interrupting the DARK cycle.
The daylight cycle is set to match the daylight hours of my location on the date I plan to set them out. Where I am that's usually about 13hrs daylight. Well, you may already know that if you just put them on 13hrs daylight most all strains will begin to flower out, right? NOT if you interrupt the dark cycle.
So, I do it so I can put cuts outside and they won't immediately flip into flower, thusly stunting not only that important vegetative growth (I need them to get some height and breadth to them before they flower), but reducing or eliminating the risk of that photoperiod confusion that occurs when they begin to flower, and then go back to veg because the daylight hours are still lengthening.
So far I've only had one strain refuse to go into full vegetative state, that wants to flower--Blockhead.
Not me, this information was gifted to me by another grower. He's the one who spent the most time researching and experimenting, gave me a basic schedule (one of those cheap timers from Walmart that uses 15min increments is what I use) and I ran from there. It doesn't work perfectly with all strains, but it works pretty damn well.Like I said you have created your own special way of growing, at least I have never come across it. You are way to far off the beaten path for me. Living in the foothills just above Denver keeps me inside all year long. But it's interesting isn't it, the ways we have learned to manipulate this plant.
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