22 Part 2 Bubble OG Manifold

Sep 25: moving to new diary to accommodate the 30 week limit here on Growdiaries. This plant was too big for me to force flower in July when I did all the other photoperiods. The strength of light falls quickly this far North and photoperiods need to be forced to finish in time and to produce good buds. Reviewing Ed Rosenthal’s grow guide he mentions in a single paragraph using a far red light (730 nm) at dusk to set the plant into dark mode. This saves 2 hours versus the normal hormone signal so you effectively provide an extra two hours of darkness or a 26 hour day. I started doing it in mid-August after the light arrived (ForeverGreenIndoor 4 foot 730 nm light is 99 US). Other options are Flower Initiator (200 US) or Agrolight (60 US but out of stock). So far so good, but beavers have been falling trees on the power lines to the farm all summer. They took out the power eight (8 !) times including 3 times in a single week and twice at dusk when I should have been using the light. Missing those two nights three days apart in mid-August caused several plants to re-veg including the other smaller Bubble OG plants. So I can tell the light works because of the negative effects when I missed the two nights. Next year I’ll have a battery backup so no nights are missed with the far red light. Anyway, it seems the far red light did get this big plant to start flowering early. I’d say 3 or even 4 weeks earlier than it would have without the light. That’s huge here because we usually get hard frosts in mid-October that end the grow season, and she might be able to produce decent buds this way. Using the red light on these Bubble OG plants and the four field plants (Fast Skunk, 11Roses x Super Skunk, Bubble OG and Hash Bud clones).