i concur. i think i just found a ball on two of my ladies! i'm not positive, but i'm pretty damn sure!
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i concur. i think i just found a ball on two of my ladies! i'm not positive, but i'm pretty damn sure!
-shake
Done. I cant see any light from the outside, and if I didnt have all that crap in there I would be able to check inside. Would you maybe suggest haning a sheet over the door, or even inside the door just to be super safe.
hey im new...just thought this to be an interesting thread, ill chime in my 2 cents.
i was told (and this goes with some of the previously posted info) that the plants store energy to use at night kinda like a battery. i was also told that they metabolize this energy faster and it only takes about 2 hours to use up the majority of it.
no proof. dont even remember who told it to me (for all i know my brain made it up). but its back there in my memory regardless....hope it helps.
as for drawing any conclusions, id say for plant growth the difference is trivial. its more which cycle best suites your situation...i remember one grow a while back i had everything i needed but a timer, and i couldnt get ahold of one for the life of me, so i went ahead with 24/0 since i didnt have a choice.(id rather let the plants adapt than trust myself to do it for them) i think its been proven that either way the plant fully adapts. if there were a difinitive answer/experiment proving it we wouldnt be having this discussion!
however, i do understand what oldmac is saying about humanizing our plants. the human learning process involves in one way or another direct comparisons to ourselves, and this works more or less for all living things.....except plants. theres only 2 kinds of cell structures plant and animal. so when saying a plant "needs to rest" (which is the arguement i always get from my dad) you have to at least broach the idea that they dont. since they are the only organic thing that isnt built like us on a molecular level, we can never really know.
stepping back into the animal kingdom where creatures have at least the same cell structure as humans, we see that rest cycles are a necessity and it varies from creature to creature, for instance some animals hibernate for long periods of time, others take many short naps. however animals have minds, and can make decisions (even if based on instanct). plants do not have any mind that we know of and are based more on reactions.
my point (and this isnt directed at anybody...excpet maybe my dad) is that if the dark cycle plays any role, its simply another phase or part of the reaction. "Rest" infer's that some kind of conscious effort was made. plants dont get tired. they simply react, be it efficiently or adversley. this includes adaptation.
damn i started rambling again....sorry. in any case you all rock for trying to find the answer :thumbsup::thumbsup: lol the pioneers of Operation: Plantation Nation. :rastasmoke:
very informative.
Damn what a read!!! Now my :twocents::D Using a current event, a young seedling, not quite out of its seed shell was growing a root in the papertowel, and me being in a hurry, put it in a starter plug with the emerging seed just below the surface. Then next morning, I put it along with some others already with their first leaves and first true leave beginning to appear, out in the direct sunlight.
Being an impatient SOB right now, I decided to help the little bugger out and deftly removed the seed shell. The cotoldyl leaves were folded over and still closed tight as a nun's you know what!!! :stoned: And quite yellow in color and the temperature was rising fast. So, for the past two days I've been watching the little sucker and its going like gang busters. Its started it's first set of true leaves and tomorrow they will be that much bigger. The high temps have been in the very high 80s. Its gotten two nice night's rests outside with the temps in the high 50s. And dew coveres them all in the morning. I think that this proves that the cannabis plant has such a level of survivability anything is possible under any given set of conditions. And, the rest of my legal medical quota is doing much better outside in the natural light then the florescent I was using to get them rooting. I hoping for a good yield outdoors with free energy since the economy has me scraping by.
And, they seem to grow much better and happier as a group. It surely must be a social plant not liking to be alone!!! :jointsmile: :twocents:
Give them a few hours of darkness. For many reasons, and facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by jlve187
i got a quick question about the lights in my area...my friends growin in the outside but just figured that first frost is nov.28 and daylight savings is on nov.4,..(so the night will be longer)...that means i got like 3.5 weeks for flowering..i dont know if this will be long enough.is it ok to flower a bit past first frost or will the cold kill them..it gets hella cold in the desert