Onamatopeia
New Member
We all know about putting your plants into 12/12. Many of us who have grown outdoors know that our plants in the wild start flowering way before 12/12. In fact, in my area they start flowering when there is still over 14 hours of daylight.
So, it seems to me, once you get your plant firmly into flowering mode, maybe they would be fine flowering in 13 or 14 hours of light. I think you would spend the first two weeks at least in 12/12 just to decisively get them to flower. But maybe once that was established they would bloom with the benefit of more light.
And possibly at the end for those tropical sativas especially you would want to cut down to 12/12 or even 11/13. Just to make them finish.
Maybe people feel that is not enough extra light to risk a bunch of hermies.
But has anyone tried this or something like it?
So, it seems to me, once you get your plant firmly into flowering mode, maybe they would be fine flowering in 13 or 14 hours of light. I think you would spend the first two weeks at least in 12/12 just to decisively get them to flower. But maybe once that was established they would bloom with the benefit of more light.
And possibly at the end for those tropical sativas especially you would want to cut down to 12/12 or even 11/13. Just to make them finish.
Maybe people feel that is not enough extra light to risk a bunch of hermies.
But has anyone tried this or something like it?