Obviously I won’t know the answer of this truly for a bit, but how much have I likely just ruined my grow?
Pretty upset with myself right now. Went to see a movie and my supplemental lights I have around the plant in my grow box didn’t turn off. Overhead one still did, but it still got all those extra hours of light from the supplemental. Lights were supposed to shut off at 6 and were in till 1120z
I changed the intensity in the supplemental light today. Something I did must’ve also reset or changed the timer. Just super annoyed with myself.
How would yall handle this???
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If it was just one day business as usual
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Check the light timer, reset if needed, grow on.
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Thanks dude, appreciate it. Fingers crossed
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As @Foreigner it’s one day. From my understanding it takes time to build up the hormones needed to start any kind of reveg.
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I did this on my last run after a power outage and nothing tragic happened.
Nothing to worry ab man and in fact it would take multiple days of residual light/fickled dark period scheduling to cause herms/revegging so just get it fixed and move on. I’ve had plants with less than ideal darkness when lights were off…even residual light from other rooms seeping into tent flaps and knock on wood never caused problems. Super heavy feeding, crazy environmental changes, and the big one unstable genetics are the only things to really impact changes to a flowering female. Don’t get me wrong you can’t just leave an overhead light on but little tiny glitches won’t hurt the development
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Really appreciate the assurances guys, I’ve chilled out and just kept the schedule the same as it was before. Schedule/timing issue has been corrected on the supplemental so should be set from here on out
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Make sure to keep an eye on the plants. Depending on how sensitive they are to changes in DLI, it can range from no effect to herm out.
Howdy @Bunklyscrungus, it happens to the best of us. I think it’s important to remember that regular cannabis (non autos) are short day plants. That means they determine flowering or vegging based on the duration of the “night” time (total darkness).
Regulars indoors won’t (shouldn’t) revert to veg or show intersex due to changes in day length alone. It’s the changes to their total darkness period that determines flowering or could stress the flowering giving way to the possibility of showing intersex reproductive morphology.
Anytime I accidentally extended the day length I would approach the “fix” by making sure I optimized the immediate night (total darkness) period that follows said interruption. I wouldn’t worry or focus on the different day length that happened accidentally, I would worry and focus about making sure the nights (dark periods) were ideal, especially the dark period immediately following the accident.
If I accidentally extended a day length, I would often just make that the new on/off light schedule if it was possible considering practically of my work schedule as it relates to the new light schedule in addition to considering possible undesirable climatic factors. For example, I would run my flowering so it was dark during my human daytime and the lights were on at night because I live in a hot semi tropical environment. Running at night is preferred for me because it is easier to manage heat and is more efficient with respect to air conditioner and such. So if I added a bit of accidental time during a day length that was only an hour or so, I would just turn the lights off when I noticed and that would be my new “off” time and the immediate night would receive 12 hours darkness and the next day the “new” light schedule would resume. Anything more than an hour or two would start to conflict with my preferred work schedule and also start to encroach on aspects of inefficiency with respect to managing the indoor grow climate to my preference in a warm semi tropical region.
I think that’s always the most ideal way to approach an unintentional extended day, but it’s not always practical and may create a conflict with your work schedule or undesirable efficiency with respect to keeping the indoor garden climate ideal.
If a conflict doesn’t make that first choice remedy possible, then I think the next best thing is once it’s noticed the lights have been on longer, to keep them on until turning them off alings best with your preferred schedule that relates to your work schedule (your accessibility to work in the garden) and preferred methods of efficiency as it relates to temperature, humidity, ect. management.
So basically I’d just roll with a “new” light schedule if possible or extend the continuing day until it lines back up with my human schedule and other things like strategy of climate control. Hope that helps. Many blessings and much love
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