the light or the dark

[turtle420]

How does this sound?:::

Vegetative = 21/3
Flowering = 21:36/8

??? Anyone?

[mikeandjenherbals]

turtle sounds gr8 I like it when someone thinks outside the box, sorry I haven't gotten back to you but I clipped a top and it was dry enuff for us to start smoking last nite, it was off one of the exp. plants and i can say that screwing with the lights didnt (did not) diminish the high. its brutal, gravity too strong here, must get back to couch

[mikeandjenherbals]

I can't believe we cant keep crap like growtradefuckfucks off here, my experiment is coming to a close, results: buds, good buds, sticky stoney and stinky, I think the plants had an increase from the light cycle, you'd have to get them going side by side to really tell, Did I cause the increase by some other variable? maybe is it worth the extra power? idunno did it affect potency? not adversly(gr8 smoke)
did it turn everything hermie? no
in conclusion, I would have to say that after flower set, the ammount of light can be extended up to 18-20 hrs for 2 weeks without any visible problems, who knows I might've really fouled this up, made some genes mutate or some other crazy shit, but it makes sense the plant would stay budding and just use the extra light to stack, the faq in overgrow claims 40 % increase, I believe thats possible. of course this should be taken with a grain of reality...im a stoner in the advanced stages of being stoned

[turtle420]

Regarding my upcoming grow...

Can anybody provide some suggestions for a light schedule for the lifetime of the plant? I general thing...

I'd like to do:
veg 21/3 (jimbones' idea)
flowering 21:36/8

But I'm thinking that my plants will not know what the fuck is going on in Planet Ito and they'll go bananas... They won't be vegetative, and they won't be flowering... they'll be in an anti-gravitational suction whirlpool in which they won't be able to provide the correct genetic codes with copious amounts of materials... thus, I won't be getting any buds.

Either that, or they'll flower in 5 days...

Ok, joking aside, I'd like to do the 21:36 experiment... I think it'd be cool information to document and to see what are the results... the people on this site could benefit from that. BUT, if I use at the same time jimbones' idea of vegetative 21/3, I'm not sure the plant will know the difference between veg and flowering... Although the dark periods change noticiably...

So, if the 21:36/8 idea from Planet Ito works, it would provide bigger "buds".... So, should I follow a typical 18/6 veg cycle?

Hmmm.... Many questions... I'm out of weed... maybe that's the problem...

Any and all input would be greatly welcomed,
-turtle420

[mikeandjenherbals]

what we need is data as to how much light energy a pot plant can use.

[mikeandjenherbals]

finally both at 24 days, too stoned to post it properly before sorry, left standard cycle, right more light 12 hrs dark 21-22 hrs light for 2 weeks kept going for a third no problems just killer smoke

[SamoanLawyer]

youd want them lookin a bit bigger at this stage mate.
your regional predictions are way offf too

[snow owl]

log nights trigger flowering as appose to short days. The plants natural rhythem responds to a 24 hr day. Creating a 30hr day will only confuse and stress the plants.

[mikeandjenherbals]

you ever try it owl? I have