I’m in week 4 of an 8-week flowering strain that I know very well as I have grown it many times. I know that I average 2.5oz-3oz per plant at 8 weeks of flower. If flowering stopped right now it would be about an oz a plant. This last month is when the weight starts packing on. My grow style is basically run hard and move it out of the way. The people don’t care about excuses.
So, the experiment will be to try and shave a week off of the flowering time in the final month, and the result could be either of two extremes, either a week is shaved off for the same yield or I lose a lot of weight per plant.
The experiment – 24 on 12 off on a 7 day timer
There is no way to work this out so it evens out over 7 days so one day will be a 48 hour light period. The choice is either that or make one day a 12 hour light period, so I’m going with the extreme.
I will update in a new post with the results. I dry the plants as full plants, and trim and weigh them one at a time and have done it so many times on this strain I know it will be 2.5oz each or slightly more. A couple of them always throw a four ouncer but by and far it ends up 2.5-3oz on the vast majority.
I call it the “$1000 experiment” because thats what it will cost me on a stunted harvest if it goes horribly wrong.
I’m using Smart Life Wifi plug timers in this flower room mainly because they are easy to program and I can monitor and set using a phone app. Running 4 HLG 550 R-spec lights with 4 timers. If it works, there’s more rooms to convert. If it doesn’t work, it was a dumb ass failure to be moved on from.
Sounds like a coed party in the making.
stole the words right outta my mouth lol
If I were to guess, I’d say the plants will stay in veg under that type of rotation and never flip to flower. You’re trying to push 71% light (per 7 days) on a plant that won’t flower till light and dark cycles are closer to 50/50.
Plants like consistency. Not only will the extended 24hr light schedule deteriorate the hormone that induces flowering, but throwing a funky 48 hour light cycle will just confuse the plant if somehow it does try to flower.
Of course this is all just my $0.02… I could very well be wrong (it’s happened before).
I’d love to hear what others in the DGC think of this experiment.
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IDK but my guess is that they’ll try to reveg, Wk 4&5 are crucial weeks so I suspect that you will loose yield due to hormonal changes in the plant. If you’re not already doing it, the most sure fire way to pack onto your buds is switching back to 18/6 the last 10 days of your flush. Rasta Jeff says last 10-14 days but over 10 days and I worry about revegging but if you’re going to reveg a mother you’ve got a 10 day head start. Happy Growing 🙂
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PS I do raise and/or dim my lights back about 15-20% during the last 10 days so as not to dry them out too much at the lower flowering humidity.
I’m thinking stunted if I understand the light cycle right, I may be wrong though cause I kinda get what your going for, you are pushing it cyclicly faster in theory. I just don’t know if that would be good or bad really…. very interested to see what happens! Keep us posted family
can you clarify a bit?? ” My grow style is basically run hard and move it out of the way. The people don’t care about excuses.
So, the experiment will be to try and shave a week off of the flowering time in the final month, and the result could be either of two extremes, either a week is shaved off for the same yield or I lose a lot of weight per plant.”” are you saying you a providing medicine to others? legit or not,,, this is going in someones lungs… dont take short cuts… do it right…
Rasta Jeff says that he likes to run his last week of flower back on 18/6. You’ll get more energy from the extra light hours but won’t be enough time in that one week to change the plant hormones and not enough time to develop any seeds. I’ve never tried it, I doubt mr Jeff would lead you in the wrong direction. This is all assuming that you know the exact point your plants will be done so you don’t have to take them longer than the last week of extra light to finish.
The flowering photoperiod on cannabis as far as what I’ve read is dark dominant, meaning it measures the amount of dark. Some plants are the opposite and measure the amount of light. Some measure the progression in either direction. This will test that theory to the max.
I’m not worried about herms. Its a possibility, but by the time that will have an effect if it even happens I’ll be smoking it.