Hello everyone. . Just had a thought about photoperiod in both the wild and the controlled environment we know as the grow room. We as growers do our best to copy natures own path as out door grown plants can be far superior to any indoor plant in both siz3 and yeild.
In the wild the transition between the seasons happens gradually with the light hours slowly decreasing until the plant is triggerd to flower. I imagine this to be the most unstressed way of going about the transition and thefore better for the plants health. Now my question is does the cold hard flip from 18/6 to 12/12 cause the plant stress and woulf creating a man made transition give better yeild, less stretch and more a more healthy plant. So setting somthing like this over 4 weeks.
Week 1 - 18/6
Week 2 - 16/8
Week 3 - 14/10
Week 4 - 12/12
With out any hard facts to back me up, my opinion (in thoery) is if you continuee to use a MH or blue spectrum lamp during the 4 week transition in theory the plant wouldn't stretch. The added UVB light insted of HPS IR during the change and a gradual change should produce a plant that grows as it did during vegative growth and in some strains especially the staiva breed this isnt such a bad thing as they can stretch out of control during the cold hard flip and light change. I also think that if what I predicted to be true thw grower would have more control and could infact reduce problems.
Iv not put this method into practice but wonderd if any one has or has any information on this?
Next in my line of thought is sunrise and sun set. Obviously in the wild the plant gets a gradual increase and decrease in the intensity of light. So my question here is would it make a diffrence to start my lights with x1 600 then 15 minutes the next 600 then 15 minutes later then next so there is a increase in lighting creating a sun rise and then do it in reverse at night to create a sun set.. would this have a more calming effect on the plants life? also there would be other factors here, like the room temperature would increase and decrease in stages like the wild causng less environmental stress. Or would doing this in practise add more stresses to the environment. .
Thought id share my thoughts on this. Opinions, pointers, answers, info and criticism all welcomed..
Zoot
In the wild the transition between the seasons happens gradually with the light hours slowly decreasing until the plant is triggerd to flower. I imagine this to be the most unstressed way of going about the transition and thefore better for the plants health. Now my question is does the cold hard flip from 18/6 to 12/12 cause the plant stress and woulf creating a man made transition give better yeild, less stretch and more a more healthy plant. So setting somthing like this over 4 weeks.
Week 1 - 18/6
Week 2 - 16/8
Week 3 - 14/10
Week 4 - 12/12
With out any hard facts to back me up, my opinion (in thoery) is if you continuee to use a MH or blue spectrum lamp during the 4 week transition in theory the plant wouldn't stretch. The added UVB light insted of HPS IR during the change and a gradual change should produce a plant that grows as it did during vegative growth and in some strains especially the staiva breed this isnt such a bad thing as they can stretch out of control during the cold hard flip and light change. I also think that if what I predicted to be true thw grower would have more control and could infact reduce problems.
Iv not put this method into practice but wonderd if any one has or has any information on this?
Next in my line of thought is sunrise and sun set. Obviously in the wild the plant gets a gradual increase and decrease in the intensity of light. So my question here is would it make a diffrence to start my lights with x1 600 then 15 minutes the next 600 then 15 minutes later then next so there is a increase in lighting creating a sun rise and then do it in reverse at night to create a sun set.. would this have a more calming effect on the plants life? also there would be other factors here, like the room temperature would increase and decrease in stages like the wild causng less environmental stress. Or would doing this in practise add more stresses to the environment. .
Thought id share my thoughts on this. Opinions, pointers, answers, info and criticism all welcomed..
Zoot
