Just curious as to the pros and cons of running my veg light 24 hrs vs 18hrs on 6 off. What’s everyone’s opinion?
24 hours cost more than 18/6 and you are paying for power
plants can only use so much light and will rest whether the lights are or not
too much light can harm a plant
just my two cents and it is worth no more
but I have always vegged under 14/10 and flowered under 10/14 and have never
had a problem
I could be lucky but I think not 
all the best and be safe
Dequilo
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Better then 12/12 from seed? Power cost & Buds quantity/Quality?
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never have had the need to do 12/12 from seed I grow Photo Regulars
as far as buds go I grow more than I can smoke so I am good with
the yields I get and buds are hard so that work
I will run Florescence lights (shoplights) over seedlings 24/7 on a shelf for
a couple of weeks
but at the end of the day it is what works for you in your grow setup
all the best and enjoy the day
Dequilo
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I’m willing to try. Got nothing to lose. Likely cost me less on hydro too. Besides the ones I got going now are autos anyway
10 On & 14 OFF for flower yes?
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I go 18/6 or 17/7, seems unnatural to give a plant 24 hours that evolved for millions of years for darkness every night
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I run 24 hours for small clones with smaller lights. Straight veg I’ve done it both 24 hours and 18 hours. I saw absolutely no difference other than the electric bill.
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I veg 16 on/8 off and flower 11 on/13 off. I reduce flower time by hour after long flowering strain reaches 3 feet in tent.
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16/8 for me. It mimics summer here perfectly.
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I’m doing this. Already switched the schedule
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I just run my veg floro 24/7…I have two 1000w block heaters on my tractors that run 24/7 in case I need one any time and two 1000w block heaters on my Diesel trucks…that just for starters…i have trough heaters for water in all my paddocks etc…so a few hours on a floro is negligible.
Now when I ran Shanti’s Black Widow…I vegged them 24/7 under a metal halide until the 3rd node and topped them, then threw them in flower starting 14/10 - 12/12 then 11/13 - 10/14 to finish as I had discussed with him…a ran a few testers for him previously with detailed logs etc…so he also gave me some old Afghan Haze stuff to work with…different from his lines…they are all very sour and offensive cat piss…huge yeilders…huge plants…9-10 wks.
I ran a few as I ran the Black Widows with staggered times and got foxtailing…could have been many other factors as I never got back to them, but noone that got these from me reported foxtailing…just the horrid catpiss stench.
I generally now run all veg plants 24/7 under a floro t5 x 12 and 12/12 under a 1000w hps…Prehistoric Setup.
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I start 18/6, usually at 4 weeks I will switch to 14/10 for a week which triggers preflowers, making sexing easy, then 12/12 up until the last week or 2 when I drop to 10/14. It gives them that last push that the end is near…
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i wanna try a run using one tent only and its hard for me to set my timer and fuck with it but i can just flick the switch from full on to timer mode wich would be easier for me with just one hand to deal with from veg to flower but beside electricity wich is obvious it is the consumption will be higher
but beside that will the plant suffer from this?
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i did that once way back in the day but believe they would benefit from the rest period.
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As long as you don’t give them too much light (intensity) they will be just fine under 24hr veg. These seeds were started under 24hr
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This is my experience as well, if the PAR is a little too high, my plants will start to look “tired” and droop a bit under 24 hours of light towards when it would be night under 18/6, and I seem to get good or slightly better results from regular old 18/6, but that’s my preference from tinkering around with it the past.
Happy growing and peace!
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Nop, even with pures sativas motherplants ^^
But if you’re hunting herms (screening), it can fairly delay their expression even with hard torture (while in 12/12).
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Agree Too they need rest
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im runing two tents( veg& flower) at the moment but eould like to try a scrog in veg and keep it for flower but being mostly disabled id say handicaped more then disabled im trying to facilitate some of my experiments uve tried vegging 24 hours but never more then 2-3 weeks im planing to try a 6-8 weeks of veg before i flip then 12/12 if its not gonna ruin them just for easeof not fucking up my timer like i once did
so if its good my next run ill be trying seed to harvest in my flower tent by bypassing the timer to run on 24h till its ready to flip
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for that problem i’d just get another timer. $6 on amazon, probably get them cheaper than that, this is the first one.
hook them up in series and turn off one or the other as needed.
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