Light timer failing ON during flower..

[Farmer Rich]

In case anyone ever wondered what will happen when lights are on 24 hours during flower for an extended period, here you go.

What happened was the timer controlling the 2 T-5 panels failed to ON and I didn't notice or figure it out for about 5-6 days. I noticed temps in the room were 4-5 degrees warmer during lights off, but didn't think it was light related. A few day later I start seeing the plants growing all funky. Luckily I went out to my garden sometime before lights on and discovered it. This was in about week 5.. As you can see in the pictures, they all started stretching again. I was worried about hermi's, but none and a good thing. What's difficult is estimating how long finish is going to take now.. Kind of like they reverted to week 2 during the lights on period. Based on the original schedule, these should be in week 9.. Flipped on 1/1/13. I think I'm looking at probably 6 more weeks.. maybe a little less on the indica's. We'll see.

If your curious to strain - all grown from fem seeds.. Utopia Haze, Kosher Kush and Kushsage

Anyone else have any experience with this?

Farmer Rich

Farmer Rich Reviewed by Farmer Rich on 03-06-2013. Light timer failing ON during flower.. In case anyone ever wondered what will happen when lights are on 24 hours during flower for an extended period, here you go. What happened was the timer controlling the 2 T-5 panels failed to ON and I didn't notice or figure it out for about 5-6 days. I noticed temps in the room were 4-5 degrees warmer during lights off, but didn't think it was light related. A few day later I start seeing the plants growing all funky. Luckily I went out to my garden sometime before lights on and Rating: 5

[Mal420xl]

well if they fill in and fatten back up like it looks like they are gonna those will be some sick colas. maybe you just fell into a new technique.

[PhatJay]

Anyone else have any experience with this?

Not me. But I can't wait to see what happens.

[Farmer Rich]

@PhatJay&Mal420xl - I was thinking that too as far as technique, but the time to finish is looking long.. as far as fattening up, the Utopia Haze in the back is looking really good. I love big sativas.. I had a g13 haze that produced nearly 14 oz. No predictions though. :jointsmile:

Regarding time for this, I was already expecting the Utopia Haze to go up to 12 weeks, maybe even a little longer. The Kosher Kush, about 10, and the Kushsage also 10. From the looks of things up close the Kushage will probably come down first.

For those who are interested here's a couple of more pics.. The first is Kosher Kush, the other is Utopia Haze.

Farmer

[Plantguardian]

I had an Alcapulco Gold lady in a closet once, surrounded by cheap LED panels w/a 90watt UFO overhead. I called her Weirdo because she spouted weird lil' veg-type leaves from the top. Turns out I had a light leak but didn't realize it for a while... till the clone grew taller than the LED panels that surrounded it.
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so I let it go for a while longer and harvested the buds off the main stem Attachment 290170

then I let the weird lil' branchy stuff that had sprouted grow out and managed to get a second harvest outta her. :thumbsup:

[Plantguardian]

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[Plantguardian]

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Attachment 290179Attachment 290180 part 2 of the harvest looked like. :thumbsup:

[Farmer Rich]

Update - Day 67

Noticed I never mentioned the action I took when I discovered the problem.. As in all light problems, switching cycle, etc. I've learned that the best way is to just put everything in the dark for a minimum of 24 hours. In this case, I left everything off for about 36 hours before resuming the regular schedule. 11:50 ON for me.. My current estimate is that this screw up is going to add about 3 weeks to the overall flower schedule and looks like it may be consistent on all 5 plants. For the Kushsage and Kosher Kush, I expecting about 3 more weeks.. Maybe 5-6 on the Utopia Haze. Here's what they're looking like today:

[Farmer Rich]

Looks like the light leak caused a similar problem..

[tlranger]

Did they bolt?