rolling blackouts

[Treez81]

If rolling blackouts r going on for twenty min every two hours and the plants r three weeks into veg should the lights just be turned off until tomorrow or just let it be.

[BackWoodDrifter]

If rolling blackouts r going on for twenty min every two hours and the plants r three weeks into veg should the lights just be turned off until tomorrow or just let it be.

If its daylight out do yu have the ability to put close to a window while these here blackouts yu speak of go on? Or be puttin some battery operated light while out just to be keepin some sort of light goin but window be best

BWD

[Treez81]

Window is not an option nor do i have any other source of light except the led on my cell phone.

[BackWoodDrifter]

Window is not an option nor do i have any other source of light except the led on my cell phone.

I would just try to keep some sort of light sorce goin ifin yu got any means to ifin these black out are going to be goin for a long period of time be stressin yu plant possible and could cause hermie stress be bad for what yu be wantin. Any light be good light pilgrem just my opinion.

BWD

[MadSativa]

yup get out the flash lights and generators, build fires to keep them warm...........o wait thats grapes

[WashougalWonder]

Is this occurring just on a single day or multiple days. One day, I would shut off lights for the day cycle, but have on as usual the next day. Watch for nanners.....3 weeks in is a very critical time to be stressing a plant.

[Treez81]

I hope it was only yesterday. I've heard they might do it today too.

[waterdog]

I hope it was only yesterday. I've heard they might do it today too.

Just heard on New Mexico....... Today also ....:wtf:

[Lynhal]

I feel for you Treez. Hurricane Wilma had wiped out some of my babies that were so beautiful because I had no power for nearly a month. I tried my best to keep them going with window light, but the heat was so intense without a/c and not being about to fan the canopy or give any air circulation (had to use my generator to keep my freezers going to keep food cold)
it was impossible. :(

I have an idea though, if the rolling b/o's are happening in a certain period of time each day ... make that your dark period. Just a thought. Not sure if it will work for you or not but that is what I would do in your case if this will be an extended situation with the rollings.

Best of luck to you and ANY light ... like flashlights mentioned etc. could help. I didn't have that option because there were no batteries to be found within 200 miles of me back in '05. I had to drive over 150 miles just to get gas for my generator/vehicle and food for my family. What a nightmare that was. I was in line for 3+ hours to get gas and people were fighting at the pumps. GAH, hope that never happens again! (knocks on the nearest wood) Sorry for babbling on. :stoned:

Let us know if you figure something out. Again, best of luck to you! :)

[Treez81]

thanks for all the replies...so far so good..i kept the led lights going from my cell phone and they seem ok...so far no more blackouts...really hope they dont have to do that anymore..looks like the roads r getting better and not as many people r at home burning thier heaters

[bigsby]

Was reading about the wisdom of Texas energy policy and you came to mind. This episode neatly sums up Texas' go it alone approach. Hilarious. The question is, will anyone learn from this? Doubtful, eh?

It's a long read so I'll snippet the best bits below. Here is the link to the full article:

Cold Snap Brings Rolling Power Outages to Texas; is ERCOT Policy of Isolation at Fault? | The Energy Collective (http://theenergycollective.com/michaelgiberson/51062/cold-snap-brings-rolling-power-outages-texas-ercot-policy-isolation-fault)

Texas has pursued a policy of isolation for the ERCOT power grid so as to keep the stateâ??s largest utilities subject primarily to state, rather than federal, regulation. Two minor links connect ERCOT and utilities in Oklahoma, but they are of little commercial significance. A small interconnection with Mexico was activated to send power into Texas for a few hours, but cold conditions in Mexico required it to suspend the assistance. The policy of isolation is questioned from time to time, but remains popular with the industry and many state policymakers. While the policy has important benefits, the costs are particularly visible at times of system stress.

In the Southeastern corner of the state, Beaumont was not experiencing outages. The local electric utility, Entergy Texas Inc., is not connected to the ERCOT power grid. If Entergy Texas had excess power capacity on Wednesday morning, they could have sold it east into Louisiana or elsewhere as far as Florida or even Maine. However, even thought the utility borders against ERCOT near Houston, no power could flow to help out the rest of the state. Nearby CenterPoint Energy had to blackout an average of about 330,000 customers at a time during the emergency.
Amarilloâ??s Xcel Energy reported operations were running smoothly despite temperatures falling below zero overnight in the region. If the utility had excess power, however, none of it would have been able to reach ERCOT. Like Entergy Texas, Xcel and other utilities in the Panhandle and South Plains are connected into the Eastern Interconnection, which stretches to the Atlantic coast in the east and to Canada in the north. (On Thursday Xcel called upon consumers in the Panhandle to conserve power and natural gas, as heavy demand for gas was temporarily making the fuel harder to obtain.)