Total darknees

[tav]

trying to go into flowering stage been 12/12 for a good week or so. can go into total darkness for 2 days then back to 12/12 just to jump start it? or am i out in left field somewhere?....lol

 

[Smokey0418]

Patients would be right up there, lol.

Good luck with your grow.

 

[Mike Wright]

I think the 12/12 light will have better effect than total darkness. A week isn't unusual.

 

[Roy Growin]

It usually takes more like two weeks - stop trying to push it or you risk hermies
Just let it do its thing and don't fuck about with it

 

[SmokingWings]

trying to go into flowering stage been 12/12 for a good week or so.

That old saying from the kitchen applies here with "A watched pot never boils." meaning that if you keep watching and waiting then nothing seems to happen.

We keep watching that plant looking for signs of change that does not seem to be happening. Then we begin to think that it has been longer than we realize. Instead of 'a good week or so' it has only been 4 or 5 days. I have fallen into that more than once and go back to the written note that has the actual day.

Since the plant still needs nutrients and sugars for the flower growth it probably is better to have usual 12 hours of light each day for photosynthesis instead of the plant pulling what it needs from storage.

 

[Sativa1970]

Anything over 12 hours of dark will not increase the flowering hormones. 24 hours of dark is a wives tail that just starves and stresses the plant.

 

[tav]

Ok thx...just throwing things out trying to make sense of it..