Where can I get an Uncle like this...

Quote Originally Posted by Dogznova
Hi everyone. I was going to save this but here it goes. My uncle has been flowering a clone under an old 250hps unit he has for the past three weeks and get this. He is using this light cycle..... Are You Ready!!!!!...... 6 hours on 6 hours off and 6 hours back on again then 6 hours off. LOL... This is his light cycle for 24 hours. To my surprise the clone is flowering normal as can be.. He also is doing another clone under some t5's on this silly schedule. 3 on 3 off 3 on 3 off for the first 12 hours and then this light schedule repeats itself. Talk about funny. This plant is also flowering but the leaves look kind of different. I think it's the light coming on and off so many times doing this to the plant (not sure though). This light schedule is not to economical for an HID light IMO... You think..lol

What this has told my uncle and I is that plants calculate light in a 24 time frame. It don't matter to the plants what time of the day they recive it's light source just as long as the light on time doesn't go over the time frame for flowering. Did that make sense.

Didn't make sense to me at first ether..LOL SAAALLLLLLL help..
The lower amount of Blue in the spectrum and subcanopy effects will let you get away with certain things more than others. We don't rely specifically on these effects, but they all count in the final clock tunes.

We still think the long night convention holds (at least for the blue durations and lack thereof). But, hey, If you come up with something better than what we have, we'll retire and you can be king weirdo (the pay stinks, here take the funny hat, TAKE IT!). imp: :thumbsup:

We base our system on 660nm lessons, and we use 6/6 - 3/3 type schedules for vegging, but tend to use only one Blue duration per 24 hours. 660nm being the hardest spectrum to flower Cannabis under, everything else works better, we account for this but avoid dependence on it.

Blue intensity and duration are factors, but above 10 Watts/foot, Blue should be fully triggering "day" for the plant, unless genetics are of the autoflowering or ultra early nature.

I would test samples for potency and morphology, I'm revegged some big fluffy looking buds, that had no potency, but still looked coverred in trichomes (full of low potency resins).

If this is the same plant that was flowering under 23 hours 2K a day, genes could be a factor.

I think a normal flower type Cannabis plant would reveg under that spectrum.

Either way the results will be interesting. (If 6/6 flowers well, you can have Earth, we'll stay on Mars.)

Also we've done a lot of testing with HID, and HPS is less sensitive than MH, but it still wares out the bulbs faster to run more than one start-up per day (bulb lifespan is defined in regards to number of start-ups predicted).

Also we've leaned away from multiple Blue durations and intervals for vegging and flowering due to Hermie considerations, but I still beat mine up plenty while testing potential moms and dads for breeding stock.

Take Care, Sal.