Quote Originally Posted by DrFever
DON;T fall for that crap man Cannabis uses C4 photosynthesis, so is not dependent upon a night cycle for carbon dioxide absorption. A cannabis plant in the vegetative growth phase of its life cycle can thrive under twenty-four hour daylight conditions, although some growers advocate a small rest period to avoid overstressing the plant. Flowering usually occurs when darkness exceeds eleven hours per day and can take up to six weeks.

In soil, the optimum pH for the plant is 5.8 to 6.5. In hydroponic growing, the nutrient solution is best at 5.5 to 6.1, making cannabis well-suited to hydroponics because most bacteria and fungii have difficulty growing in this pH range.
Dr... no one was talking about ph. No one was talking about hydroponics.

I am not sure why you felt the need to comment on these things but at least you did touch on the lighting that this thread is talking about. You may be right about the plants and I have seen that they can indeed endure a 24/0 light cycle, and I have also seen that they can thrive when given a dark period.

So then in your attempts to sound erudite you mention that flowering can set in if darkness exceeds 11 hours per day and for anyone not paying attention you state that this flowering can take up to 6 weeks. This is the point that my pontification alarm went off.

Dr... first of all, most strains do go longer than 6 weeks... some of mine recently have gone as long as 9 or 10. This however is not why I stress as I write these words. The entire point of this thread was that we were attempting to trick the plants... to be able to give them a longer darkness period and save the money for lighting, WITHOUT PUTTING THEM INTO FLOWERING MODE. Please understand that we are not suggesting here that this is the proper way to grow cannabis... it is a trick... and experiment. Your comments did very little to further the dialog in this thread and thus has resulted in me being a bit testy in my response to you. I think it was the way you started the note that set me off... "Don't fall for that crap"... hmmm... was it my crap that was offending you sir?