question about 12/12...

yea ill post picks of the new mylar i put around it...it allows me a few more inches on each side...and above...i should leave my plants about 6 inches away because i was going to ask how far away i should leave my plants...:jointsmile:

the first is my new setup the second is my plant that i think is indica the third is the sativa and i axadently pulled a couple roots off when i transplanted and it turned a bit yellow...

should i keep the light on 24/0 or leave the light off sumtime...???

From what I read 18/6 would be better or just plainly..it'd be good to give your plants at least 6 hours of darkness to allow the growth of roots. I read this article once that explained it basically saying that when the lights are on it's like a charger and the plants are charging up, when the lights are off it uses that energy given when the lights were on and uses that for further growth such as with roots and such. And also I think switching to 12/12 too early could cause the plants to stress to flower which could possibly promote hermies and at the same time I also heard that switching them to 12/12 too early would have no effect because they'd still just continue to vegetate until they're ready. I dunno but I'd just say don't switch them too early.

Hey I'd wait till around 3-4 weeks old til flowerin/sexin

yea ill try switchen um to 18/6 its just kinda hard when i have to time it so perfect and i race mini stock so im not home alot of the time...

karma you gotta devote time to your garden or it will fail, you can try to let it do its own thing cause soil is a bit easier to maintain but if you don't have the time to devote to a garden just hold off till you do. Your plastic tent is ok, you should lose that though once they get a little bit bigger or it will cause it to be too humid in there. Turn your light to 18/6 to save electricity. Glad to see you got rid of the halogens!

yea i will after and yea i got rid of it along time ago...and i have time its just ima bit busy sumtimes...and i have trouble keeping the light on a specific 12/12 i fuck up and put it like 14 10 and don want to do that...

Why don't you just buy a timer? What you should do is buy a timer that plugs into your wall and then buy a power surge and hook all your lights up to that, then plug that power surge into the timer that on the wall and automatically set it to turn on and off when you want. I dunno if you have a timer or not but the way you're talking about your light cycle it doesn't sound like you do. Much easier than manually doing it, and you really don't want any fuck ups with the light cycle when they're flowering..really. Not that hard to get, they sell them in the electrical appliance section of wal-mart.

make sure its a grounded timer don't make a noob mistake.