i have used glr for the whole of this grow im doing and im getting amazing results, my clones grew like crazy and my seedlings showed sex after 2 weeks, they where fem seeds but still good to know, ill be using glr for a few more days then im going to try the deminishing light schedule for flower, i think glr works a lot better with clones to start off with as it takes the seedlings time to be mature enough to benefit from the rapid growth.
glr method.
12 hours of light
5.5 hours of dark
1 hour of light
5.5 hours of dark,
then repeat.
what this method does imo is tricks the plants into thinking its starting to flower but by giving it the 1 hour of light during the 12 hour of off period it stops the plants flowering, they show sex and will show all the way through the grow, but they wont actually flower till you remove the 1 hour of light during the dark period, this also makes the plants start flowering quicker, pretty much strait away.
the only thing im unsure of and wont know till i flip the lights to flower is if the plants still stretch when flipped to flower, as they are basically growing rapid under glr this is then the stretch period they normally receive in flower, but the 1 hour of light prevents them from flowering, so will they still have some stretch when flipped to flower i dont know, but im going to find out,
glr method.
12 hours of light
5.5 hours of dark
1 hour of light
5.5 hours of dark,
then repeat.
what this method does imo is tricks the plants into thinking its starting to flower but by giving it the 1 hour of light during the 12 hour of off period it stops the plants flowering, they show sex and will show all the way through the grow, but they wont actually flower till you remove the 1 hour of light during the dark period, this also makes the plants start flowering quicker, pretty much strait away.
the only thing im unsure of and wont know till i flip the lights to flower is if the plants still stretch when flipped to flower, as they are basically growing rapid under glr this is then the stretch period they normally receive in flower, but the 1 hour of light prevents them from flowering, so will they still have some stretch when flipped to flower i dont know, but im going to find out,