desiBud420
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Hi ya'll!!
I have been reading up on hermies, Nanners and other reasons why a female might get stressed and go in that hemaphrodite direction.
I have a light cycle issue with 2 plants in my grow box exiting their 2nd week since sprouting. My 2areas of concern are as follows:
1) is the manual switch timer that takes care of the light cycles. Nipped it off Aliexpress for $7 and I recently noticed a 30 minute lag in a total of 24 hours cycle through the day. The timer reaches the complete 24 hour cycle I've set, but it reaches that point 30 minutes in advance of its actual deadline.
For example, I set my switch timer at 7am to do 18 hours light till 1am, then it goes into 6 hours darkness up till 6:30am. Is there generally a lag in timers? Mines manual, not digital and I wasn't aware these things could lag, unless I have a faulty one?? I think 30 minutes off the entire day EVERYday will eF with my plants during veg and flowering.
2) A second bigger problem I hAve is the electricity grid in this region is poor. Electricity goes offline for an hour every 2-3 hours daily. I have a backup generator to tackle the house, but there is a10 second lag from when the lights go off and generator kicks in., and happens for another 10 seconds after the hour is up and electricity switches from generator to grid. My question here is, will this 10 sec pause of light due to lag from generator delay (totalling a loss of only 1 minute and 20 seconds, but still 10 second interruptions of OFF time with switching electricity sources in those 10 seconds, eFf with my plants, or I'd it nominal at any stage?
I am looking to get a small UPS to eliminate that 10-sec gap everytime, but will take me a few days.
Any thoughts on my particular electricity situation here, or is UPS the only way to go?
Will this constant 10-sec interval twice an hour, every 3-4 hours screw with something ar my plants end?
Grow box stats: I have a tiny usb fan, one 85watt white light (400watt output), and recently stuck one 20watt warm light (100watt output), along with a PC fan I'm using as an exhaust. Will this put a load on my tiny ups? I'm not sure if it can handle the load. Currently I've got my old pentimento 4 PC and a dell flat screen monitor attacked that the ups handles. Battery is pretty weak (picked it for $12 locally and it gave me 6-8 months thorough for the PC/monitor. Now it will last long enough for that 10-second switch to generator, but not sure if it can handle my grow box watt usage. I need to check how much my PC might be taking to make a comparison with the grow box total watt usage.
If someone could tell me what to look for on the battery to measure things up technicLly I'd be happy to oblige and anything else that needs answering.
I have been reading up on hermies, Nanners and other reasons why a female might get stressed and go in that hemaphrodite direction.
I have a light cycle issue with 2 plants in my grow box exiting their 2nd week since sprouting. My 2areas of concern are as follows:
1) is the manual switch timer that takes care of the light cycles. Nipped it off Aliexpress for $7 and I recently noticed a 30 minute lag in a total of 24 hours cycle through the day. The timer reaches the complete 24 hour cycle I've set, but it reaches that point 30 minutes in advance of its actual deadline.
For example, I set my switch timer at 7am to do 18 hours light till 1am, then it goes into 6 hours darkness up till 6:30am. Is there generally a lag in timers? Mines manual, not digital and I wasn't aware these things could lag, unless I have a faulty one?? I think 30 minutes off the entire day EVERYday will eF with my plants during veg and flowering.
2) A second bigger problem I hAve is the electricity grid in this region is poor. Electricity goes offline for an hour every 2-3 hours daily. I have a backup generator to tackle the house, but there is a10 second lag from when the lights go off and generator kicks in., and happens for another 10 seconds after the hour is up and electricity switches from generator to grid. My question here is, will this 10 sec pause of light due to lag from generator delay (totalling a loss of only 1 minute and 20 seconds, but still 10 second interruptions of OFF time with switching electricity sources in those 10 seconds, eFf with my plants, or I'd it nominal at any stage?
I am looking to get a small UPS to eliminate that 10-sec gap everytime, but will take me a few days.
Any thoughts on my particular electricity situation here, or is UPS the only way to go?
Will this constant 10-sec interval twice an hour, every 3-4 hours screw with something ar my plants end?
Grow box stats: I have a tiny usb fan, one 85watt white light (400watt output), and recently stuck one 20watt warm light (100watt output), along with a PC fan I'm using as an exhaust. Will this put a load on my tiny ups? I'm not sure if it can handle the load. Currently I've got my old pentimento 4 PC and a dell flat screen monitor attacked that the ups handles. Battery is pretty weak (picked it for $12 locally and it gave me 6-8 months thorough for the PC/monitor. Now it will last long enough for that 10-second switch to generator, but not sure if it can handle my grow box watt usage. I need to check how much my PC might be taking to make a comparison with the grow box total watt usage.
If someone could tell me what to look for on the battery to measure things up technicLly I'd be happy to oblige and anything else that needs answering.