I would say screw the gradual increase and put it strait up to the light cycle you want. I've had a few instanses where I've had to increase light cycles and you want those plants to get the message right now that they should be in veg before more Flower horomones run through them. I've never had problems jumping the light up in veg stage. Since your plant isn't mature enough to show sex yet you are actually causing stress by having the dark period as long as it is since some plants actually do flower in a cycle of 14/10 we just all use the safe 12/12.
Chronic Chrissy Reviewed by Chronic Chrissy on . Started Seed with 12/12, then slowly increasing lighting cycle I started my seedling outside and left it there for about 1 week but it wasn't getting much direct sunlight (12/12 light schedule with a lot of shade from blacony). So now I've moved it inside and used some CFL's to grow it. I am slowly increasing the exposure to light from 12/12 to 13/11. I am then going to make it 14/10 in the next couple of days. Is this a problem? Does increasing the light cycle stress the plant? Maybe make it more prone to coming out a male? First grow, thanks for Rating: 5