Hi guys.
The area I live in has announced, due to power plant failures, that there will be scheduled blackouts for the next few months, lasting up to 2 and a half hours at a time. So far, my plants have been okay, even with the DWC air pumps going off, but I'm about to flip them to 12/12 for flowering later today. Now, I know that during flowering, it's not a good idea to stress them at all, because they can hermie.
I'm already 1 1/2 months into a grow, so what's done is done. One advantage, is that I know quite a while in advance before they happen.
Now considering that my timer switches off when the blackouts happen, how should I go about navigating this issue? Say that hypothetically, the lights were to go out at 8 hours out of 12, stay off for 2 and a half hours, then turn back on for the rest of the 12 hours of light, what would happen? Would it be better to just leave it off for a full 12 hours when it goes off? What about if it goes off 2 hours in?
Help!
The area I live in has announced, due to power plant failures, that there will be scheduled blackouts for the next few months, lasting up to 2 and a half hours at a time. So far, my plants have been okay, even with the DWC air pumps going off, but I'm about to flip them to 12/12 for flowering later today. Now, I know that during flowering, it's not a good idea to stress them at all, because they can hermie.
I'm already 1 1/2 months into a grow, so what's done is done. One advantage, is that I know quite a while in advance before they happen.
Now considering that my timer switches off when the blackouts happen, how should I go about navigating this issue? Say that hypothetically, the lights were to go out at 8 hours out of 12, stay off for 2 and a half hours, then turn back on for the rest of the 12 hours of light, what would happen? Would it be better to just leave it off for a full 12 hours when it goes off? What about if it goes off 2 hours in?
Help!