So our power was out for almost 24 hours. Will my plants be okay? I have them ranging from 2 week seedlings to week 6 of flower. The power went out about 5 hours into their daytime cycle
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One day is generally ok. Not ideal but generally ok.
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A day or two and you will be fine.
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Thanks for the quick response. I feel a little better now.
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As far as the plants are concerned it is just some heavy cloud cover/bad weather.
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I had mine go out for a good 36+hrs while in vegg. They turned out just fine! I am talking about during 85°f weather and humidity to the point the leaves had perspiration on them.
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I opened up the tents figuring if they could breathe, that would help
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I did that also after I realized the dew drops.
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Howdy @Skunky1980, while it’s not always ideal for there to be changes in your dark period, it’s better to have more dark than less. As long as you’re giving adequate darkness the flowering should continue without interruption or stress. Once power is restored and you’re back on your usual schedule, I’m assuming 12/12, there will only be one instance of the night length shortening but since it’s still at least 12 hours darkness it is still being signaled to flower.
I don’t think it’s ideal to have a lot of variability in night duration regularly, even if always maintaining at least 12 hours darkness because there could be signaling happening that compounds with each instance but since it’s just an isolated instance in your scenario I wouldn’t worry about it. I would look at it as a day that rained all day and the sun didn’t come out at all.
As long as you’re not shortening the night time darkness duration to less than 12 hours darkness, it shouldn’t really be an issue at all. If it happened regularly a few times an week throughout flowering it may cause issue with some finicky phenos but even then I don’t think it would be very likely. As long as plants are getting at least 12 hours darkness a night the reproductive morphology shouldn’t show signs of stress. Of course adequate photosynthetic energy (light ) is needed so I can see the possibility of multiple instances where inadequate light happening regularly could cause undesirable downstream effects, but in your scenario with the isolated instance I think you’re totally fine.
There’s a small chance if the 6 weekers are particularly dense and if the humidity was great that it could have more susceptibility of mold taking hold, it probably didn’t happen but I’d probably keep an extra eye on the flowers as they develop. Depending on the flower size and density if I was worried I would probably gently spread the flowers open a little bit to peek in as they’re growing but that’s mostly because I’d be overthinking it. Hope that helps. Many blessings and much love
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I lost power for a two or three days a few years back and then another day or so not long after. Had a few winter storms absolutely wreck our area within a month or so. Got a little bit of practice lol
Ill unzip the tents so there is at least some airflow. I’ll usually unzip them as much as possible (for me its so two sides are open, basically half the tent is open).
Ill also unplug my lights but leave my fans and dehumidifier plugged in. My reasoning is between my two lights, it could be up to 8-900 watts of power surging on at once. The dehumidifier also has a pretty high draw and while ive seen all 3 kick on at the same time without any trouble, i suspect its better for their circuit and my gear to not have that much of a surge when power comes back. (Thats why ill stagger my light timers by a few minutes normally)
Ill hold off all watering, they will barely be drinking. Depending on how mature they are, vegging plants might be fine going back to veg if its less than a few days.
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Hurricane Michael turned off the lights here for 7 days. The plants stayed in the dark. They looked rode hard and put away wet, but they all recovered. No hermies.
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