Give my plants sleepy time?Help

i've always herd 18/6 for veg 12/12 for flowering.

 

yea im growing with almost the same specs with 24 hours of light all day. I wonder if doing like a week of 24 hours a day, then a week of 18/6 and so on would stress the plant or anything? or make any difference at all?

 

Why not 22/2? from what i've read from different growers is that it doesn't need a rest period, so 24/0 won't do anything but make them grow. so more growth means faster harvest.

 

its up to the grower's preferance, 24/0 will produce tighter leaves and vegitation, 18/6 produces more length between leaves and branches , this is b/c when the lights are off, your plant stretches and grows more rapidy, using up its stored up energy to rebuild. i personally am not a fan of 24/0, i would go either 20/4 or 18/6, but like i said its the grower's preferance.

 

i do 24/0. if you have a limited height on your growspace, id definately recommend 24/0 since you want to minimize your stretching in all phases of the plants life

the reason 18/6 appears to produce more growth is that plants stretch in the dark. why? because they want light! go ahead and give it to them, non-stop. my 2 dimes at least

 

The two most commonly-used plans are 18/6 and 24/0. There is no proven right answer to this, so it kind of comes down to what you believe:
- Do the plants need a "rest" or not?
- Is a night period more "natural" because it might mimic nature, or does that matter?
- Will the plant grow just as fast under 18/6 as 24/0, or will it grow faster under 24/0?
- Will you save money on the electric bill running dark for 6 hours a day?
- Will you run up the electric bill growing slower and therefore longer if you go dark 6 hours a day?

The debate goes on. Either way can veg out healthy plants.

Some like me choose 18/6 for a more practical reason, to manage heat better. During veg I usually go dark noon-6pm or something like that because my grow space is affected more by outside temps and I want to avoid adding heat during the heat of the day.

For flowering there is much more consensus on 12/12.

 

go 24/0 it doesnt need to sleep, it will do constant work with no rest.

 

heres how i think about it

if you like to flip to 12/12 at a certain HEIGHT, youll probably note that you flip sooner after veggin in 18/6. why? your plant stretches at night / grows to where the light last was to better accept it when it returns.

if you flip at a certain # of leafsets, regardless of height, youll probably find faster results with 24/0, because it spends all day makin sugars and expanding new growth with less stretching.

its all up to you.

 

If you're goin 24/0 could you use this lighting throughout the whole vegetation process?

 

Wow thanks. This will be REALY beneficial to my grow!