Hi DGC,
As a new DGC Patreon I wanted to ask your advice. I am 3 weeks into flower but over the last week we have had power cuts which has interupted the lights on period. If the power goes off for a few hours at the end of the flower schedule, say on hour 9, should I turn the lights off to give them a full 12+ of darkness and will this hurt the plants at all?
Thanks for all your help with this.
Keep the schedule and do not change. It’s no big deal to have power off for a few hours. It’s only a problem when the lights are on when you don’t want them on during their night cycle.
Agree with jmystro, it happened to me a couple time
Same issue just a week ago with a big wind storm…I kept 2 HLG 600R’s and 3 fans going with a generator….lights were off for about an hour then they had relatively low light for the rest of that cycle and the next one too. No light when there wasn’t supposed to be, but I wonder if no light would have been better than weak light during the lights on time? and would the hour or so they were dark fuck with them much?
I mostly did it for the fans so I could keep the air moving but thanks to LED, I figured a couple lights would be better than none…..any thoughts Mystro?
let it rock on and reset your timers. If it becomes a longer dark period you could have issues. There are some pretty bright battery operated LED’s you can pick up at Depot or Ace. You can have them on hand and turn them on if the power cuts out.