OK so looking at my plants what should the light cycle be? I've been leaving the light on for 24 hours a day =\
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OK so looking at my plants what should the light cycle be? I've been leaving the light on for 24 hours a day =\
Don't stress out, and for godsake don't switch all at once. Right now before you change it at all figure out exactly when you want your light on for the 16 hours. The give it an hour of dark for a few days(say 3), then and another hour, then 3 days later another hour. You want to make the transistion as stressless as possible because stress can make your plants turn into hermaphrodites or males. My lastattempted grow I couldn't get thetemp undercontrol and all 10 of my plants turnedinto males.
There are people here who do use 24/0 for the whole veg cycle, I'm justgiving you whatI got.
Next tip, go to the dollar store and pick up any thermometer you can and see ifyou can find shiny wraping paper on sale, you can use the backside like mylar and waste less light.
dont use 24hrs of light, i used this method to see what would happen and all it did was make my electric more expensive, unless your conditions are 100% perfect at all times never use 24hrs of light.
instead get a timer, 5 bucks at walmart, set it to 18 on 6 off and leave it there until they/you are ready to flower, then you can move it to 12hrs on 12hrs off and this triggers flower hormones to the plants.
this still takes a week to 3 weeks to find out the sex of the plants, i am right now 7 days into flower and was able to sex 4 out of 7 plants with 3 being females using the 18/6 lighting.
ok thanks
Ok so today I went to wal-mart and bought a bunch of stuff for my plants and im growing cactus and hot peppers xD Here is a picture of the stuff I bought. My cousin went to buy my glass thermometer so I can measure the heat and stuff in my room.
What are the little bottles? pH testers I hope, if so Your getting somewhere now.
yep xD it's a pH tester, and the light bulbs are 26 watts =\ i couldent find the 23 watts so i got the closest thing to it. I got 3 ivy's and 3 of some plant that my mom had and like... 8 pepper plants growing and 4 cactus plants growing.
PS. My mom was telling my to germinate my seeds like i was with my marijuana seeds haha xD i was like.. wtf.. she dident even care -.-
ok.. well i'll put some update pictures up here pretty soon when my parents go to sleep. O ya.. im putting the plants in bigger pots, 6" pots.
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Should I make a light reflector? out of like.. foil and cardboard until I go back to wal-mart and buy some real reflectors.
lol steal a street sign. Foil isn't so great as a reflector. Do a search and you should find a fewposts on what material is xx% reflective.
Ok. Thanks so much chrissy your being such a big help to me :) your like my friend xD And umm.. I'll keep your forum updated sorry I havent been doing that. =\ I'm really lazy but since your such a big help I will help you out :)
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