Well, perhaps I didn't express myself clearly. Of course they can't be in there getting the same light as the plants vegging. I am just expressing my experience of growing over the last 10yrs that its not dangerous to the plants when they are in the dark to have a small light on such as is on a power bar to show there is power on.

In all the years I have been growing, I have had several mishaps where I didn't close the door between the veg room and the flower room. So light was traveling into the flower room when lights there were off. I haven't had any hermies from that. The only time I've had it happen ONCE was when I had a curtain between the veg and flower room and one branch of a plant inside the flower room was exposed to the light from the veg room. That branch did hermie on me. I must be a very lucky grower!

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I have green lights on in the flowering room and it has had no negative on my plants. So when the plants are in the dark, their leaves are "not perked up" like you would see them with lights on.... that's what I call "resting". Its also a time when the plants are not taking on much in the way of nutrients. No, they are not dead, they are just resting.