24 Hour Light Cycle After Flowering Begins?

[cture]

Florigen (a protein that is a hormone just recently discovered).

I'm glad to see you around, pseudoscience could you check out the spectra I have in my signature an scientifically critisize it.
Best regards

[Orzy]

I consulted with a professor at my university (a physiologist) who says that flowering should not be able to be stopped once in progress regaurdless of the light cycle. I'll be posting a more in depth reason for this and possibly a better hypothesis to test.

Cannabis can be put back into veg at any time during it's flowering cycle. It's called reveging and you do it by changing the plant's light cycle to 24 hours a day. Flowering halts, and depending on the strain new vegetative growth will appear in about a month.

[Fencewalker]

A temporary light intrusion should not be different than an extended light cycle. The plant can pump the photosynthates it makes in the day period--it does not need dark to do that. The only purpose of a dark cycle should be to signal for flowering.

But it is different. Ask anybody who's timer has broke and the plant reverted back to vegetation before they realized it. I personally have had this happen with a Mazar grow.

I am going to consult my plant physiolgy book over the next few days while studying for finals and see if I can find out more information on this.

Looking forward to it.

I consulted with a professor at my university (a physiologist) who says that flowering should not be able to be stopped once in progress regaurdless of the light cycle.

The professor is wrong, concerning cannabis. <shrug>

Cannabis can be put back into veg at any time during it's flowering cycle. It's called reveging and you do it by changing the plant's light cycle to 24 hours a day. Flowering halts, and depending on the strain new vegetative growth will appear in about a month.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. :rasta:

[Fencewalker]

Double post...Sorry.

[pseudoscience]

Here is some info. Cannabis is a short day plant (SDP).

[GreenDestiny]

yep, short day / long night plant
I guess that's why giving longer dark periods in flowering will speed up the process...
mmmm I can feel the puzzle pieces in my brain fitting together

[bugmenot2]

wouldnt it be ok to use a far red light? You said this is about 720nm, well thats nearly infra-red. If you illuminated the plants in this light throughout the "night" then the Pfr that's converted back to Pr by the process of creating florigen could be continuously converted back to Pfr by the far red light, possibly speeding up flowering. Does this make sense? I'm not an expert, but this makes sense to me from what has been said here (unless I got the wrong idea).

[joedirte]

honestly dude, why dont you just try it and maybe well all learn something.

[Rusty Trichome]

Unless you're asking about auto-flower strains, it doesn't work that way with cannabis. The ladies will switch back to vegging. Period.

[cornish_dope]

I will not say this is completely true but I'm pretty sure it is.

The purpose of the THC gland is to protect the seed pods from ultra violet rays, therefore the more ultraviolet the more resin glands that need to be produced, I know a few people who will add in an ultraviolet light and it does seem to increase potency a little ( as far as we can tell).

You can also drop the lights to 10/14 which according some grow guides will speed up flowering but reduce yields slightly.

But the most important thing I should mention is: the conventional methods work, giving us potent stinky bud, it always works it's tried and tested why fuck with it?

If it aint broke don't fix it.