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it'll only be a net benefit if you light is too weak to provide enough DLI per 24 hours relative to what the plant and your environment will allow. dark periods have benefits... you can only give so many photons per day whether over 16 hours, 18 hours or 24 hours it will add up to the same amount of energy per day (photons per day). So, if you can give 'max' DLI in 18 hours, you won't see any benefit in torchin it another 6 hours or even spreading it out over 24 hours proportionally... probabyl have some tiny negative effect in that case and the 6 extra hours might cause light damage, if providng max dli over 18hours and jsut leaving it on longer. anyway.. if it's a weak light, go for it... if it's proper relative to area of garden, it's probably only going to raise your electrcity bill and potentially damage or less effectively grow your plant. need about 500-600 ppfd over 18 hours for somehwere near 40DLI (find a DLI table - daily light integral).... if your light has an accurate speification for umol/s it's easy to convert to DLI based on size of garden. convert to m^2. 1m^2 / your garden size in m^2 multiplied by you umol/s from light... then use that value in the DLI table with hours of use per day.. you can see hours is 1:1 directly proportional to the resulting DLI.