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Light cycle below 12H

Skippie7
Skippie7started grow question 2 years ago
Will giving the plant less than 12 hours of light a day cause any major negative effects in flowering stage?
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
as long as some common sense duration is used, it's more about the DLI you provide and not necessarily the hours of light, though it is directly and proportionally related. it's possible less than 12 hours could be better... it's possible it is not. ambient co2 - 35-40 DLI is a good target. you can work out what works best for your environment in vege phase or early on with an auto before you get into the nitty-gritty of flower. 1200-1300ppm co2 - 50-60 DLI .. a wider range because it depends on how tightly you control environment. As above, this is a ballpark and you must observe and react to plant for finer resolution. i've written out what DLI is too many times.. use google. figure it out. DLI, PPFD, umol/s if you can do basic math and reference a table, it should be simple to do. if you can't.. me explaining won't help anyway, lol. in the end it is abot how much energy the plantn received.. umol/s of photons in a a range of wavelengths.. if you apply photons at a faster rate, you achieve teh max DLI with fewer hours. it will not matter much whether you get max dli over 12 hours or 18 hours. it's the same amount of energy per 24 hours relative to your atmospheric co2 and your temp/RH.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 2 years ago
Yes, less size and longer maturation time.
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Stork
Storkanswered grow question 2 years ago
Plants need at least 13 hours of light each day to stay in veg – a few ‘long’ nights may be enough to trigger budding. Plants begin budding when they get at least 12 hours of ‘uninterrupted’ darkness each night (12/12). This must continue until harvest. Even if darkness is interrupted briefly, flowering will be hindered. In fact plants may revert back to veg unless 12 hour nights are maintained u can do 15 but the harvest will be low small buds and stuff like that
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Hashy
Hashyanswered grow question 2 years ago
My thoughts on the matter are yes it could hurt potential yield but so long as you hit the correct DLi then it won't effect it to much, it's a case of if your lights are strong enough to give 30-40 DLi over the period your lights are on. Download an app called photone and check out what DLi your lights can pump out over the course of the hours you want them on for.
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Sciolistic_Steve
Sciolistic_Steveanswered grow question 2 years ago
"It will just give the plant less time to grow each day as it flowers is all. " absolutely pulled out of his ass and overtly not true... studies show the hours of light is irrelevant as long as you provide the same DLI. quantitatively proven to be so. i'm the one that doesn't know their shit, though.. LoL, love it. (yea that was personal, sorry OP)
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GreenHarvest_Official
GreenHarvest_Officialanswered grow question 2 years ago
12 or more hours of darkness is the biological trigger for photoperiod cannabis to bloom, but your plants still need light so it's best to give them the maximum possible of 12 so your plant reaches it's full potential. Good luck with your grow, looking good
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Roberts
Robertsanswered grow question 2 years ago
It will just give the plant less time to grow each day as it flowers is all.
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