OK thanks Kap. No opinion on which option is best?
Oh OK thanks Fergus! I find itās those last couple of weeks that pumps out the smells!
Personally, Iād try the camping tent
Yep I canāt agree more with you about how open my yard is! You can walk around 3 side of my property and itās only a paling fence with the usual gaps in between. ZERO privacy.
OK so letās scrap the going outside idea all together then.
So that leaves my available options with switch big tent to 12/12 or put Blue Dream in camping toilet with blurple.
I canāt get past the feeling (and please, no offense whatsoever to @MrPeat) that running at only 12 hours on compared to the 18 theyāve been getting has to reduce yield in some way??
I wonder is it worth dragging out the blurple and doing a lux measurement on it?
You should take a look at Mr Peatās journal
She would be surprised and amazed
@anon33684698 Yupā¦read my current topic. Iām not offended.
12/12 only with good lights and a good green thumb you maybe surprised what can happen. I am a anomaly thoā¦
@MrPeat @kaptain3d @AfgVet @Enlightened420 @dbrn32 @Nicky and anyone else who knows their lightsā¦
Can someone please explain to me how taking 6 whole hours of light off my girls a day (if I turn the big tent to 12/12) ISNāT going to reduce yield on all of my plants? Iām not arguing, just trying to understand.
We crank the lights up as much as the plants will tolerate, many people defoliate to get light into the centre of the plants etcā¦ I just canāt wrap my head around how reducing light can not negatively affect them is all?
Haha anomoly and not the norm, I get ya
Iām reading through the topic Kap put up above and am about half way through already. Looks like you had to start again several times due to weather?
Can I please ask: what yields do you normally pull off Autos under your 12/12 schedule?
Can you remove the green shade cloth off the top of the green house roof.
Let lots of over head sunshine in.
Otherwise your camping tent idea sounds good
@anon33684698
Nice idea but no not feasible, sorry mate. That shade cloth is cut to size and stretched to a million zippy ties to be that neat on the top. Itās on my to-do list to fix the rest. Iām not going to do whatās already there.
Autos I get about 2oz on 12/12. I am starting to think it does matter how much light it gets. Not for flowering. But for packing on the weight.
Now compare it to one of my small Photos right now. Her Cola is 16ā tall by 4ā wide. Her main branch is only 3/8ā wide. No support on that section. No silica. Nothing to strengthen my stems and branches. Less than 1 lb dried, cured and no stems.
Now one one my monsters will get over 7ā tall by 8ā wide and then some. I had to learn how to grow horizontal and not vertical. 1+ lb dried, cured and no stems.
Now one of my super monsters will hit 8ā plus tall and over 8ā wide. Grows out of my 4x4 tent. This can yield 1+ lbs dried, cured and no stems.
I hate Autos with a passion. I like full control. My current baby has only been feed once. She is still growing strong. I think I am about 4 weeks out.
Thanks so much for putting all that info together for me and youāve well and truly answered my question. I only run Autos because I like the flexibility of continuous supply, and ahhhhhh, not to be a smart arse or anything but (and absolute full credit to this forum and everyoneās guidance) I havenāt gotten less than 4oz off all of my Autos.
So I guess Blue Dream is going camping!
I donāt want to dive into it because your my last reply before I finally get some cod warzone time in but lolā¦
Basically the photos and the autos have different genetics, which help them do different things with lights on /lights off.
Follow DLI charts and do the best you can in that 12hr.
Autos donāt benefit from dark periods like photos do because of how they evolved.
Mind you this is just spit balling off the top of my head. We had our Central AC go down so I had a little bad luck with the high heat here. My prime growing is Oct/Now to April. I do have a window ac to cool the room now so that helped a lot. We alao had our power turned off for 70 hrs 9 mins which was long enough to cause Foxtails to form.
Once I find my misplaced seeds I will porbably start some Autos in the newer 15 gallon bag with FFOF and too dressed with FFHF soil that I need to deplete nutrients out. Then work on my final bag so I can frun all of FF Dirty Dozen with 2 others not in the kit.
You should get 3-4 oz off autos in soil maybe a bit mroe with larger strains.
This was my first experiences that successfully grew for me. I never weigh when its less than 64oz Mason Jar and both of then was just 1 jar each.
Thanks so very much guys!
I do believe Iāve come to a decisionā¦ Sheās a going camping with the blurple
Her yield will be what it will be. Iām not prepared to have other plants yields drop because one plantās auto genes failed. I also wonāt do another BD seed this year with all the meticulous planning I have to do around the timing of the wedding. Letās hope that itās just one seed in the batch of 20 I got that the auto gene fails in. Because itāll be November this year until I drop another, and I donāt know if Iāll have a leg to stand on after that long amount of time if a second BD plant doesnāt autoflower (eg ILGM send me more seeds)
Daily light integral. Basically says that there is point where the relationship between more light or more time is ineffective. Call it similar to maximum amount of energy plant can process. If you are hovering around this point on 18 hour schedule, reducing to 12 hour schedule is a decrease of about 33% in time. You can get back to same DLI by increasing amount of light by 33%.
This is cheap partial explanation, but does it at least somewhat make sense? This is the same reason you will repetitively see veg space with smaller light than flower space. It doesnāt necessarily take more light to flower cannabis, it takes more light to cover the reduction in time required for short day plant to flower well.
Thatās absolutely does make sense thanks!
And is actually along the lines my brain was headed with it - this why I kept bugging you experts for an answer soz!
Problem is that I have that HLG600R at just a twitch off full bore when on the 18 hours. The last tiny bit of power I can eek out of the light will surely not compensate for the loss of the 6 hours. Iād have to redo my par measurements to tell you exactly what DLI sheās running at currently in the different spots around the tent, but suffice to say I have it as high as the ladies seem to like it and they are producing what I consider to be excellent yields.
So Blue Dream will get the blurple I had when I first started and what she yields, she yields
And I can rest assured that Iām not messing with the yields of my other 7 plants