Power Outage effects?

You might want to rig up some battery-powered light for the day periods. Obviously it won't be bright enough to promote growth, but at least it will stop the plants going hermie on you through erratic lighting cycles.

Because it happened in light cycles, it's much less of a problem; it didn't interrupt your darkness periods, and that's what's important. It's quite late in your grow now, and it probably won't make much difference, unless it gets extreme - like 11 hours per day for the next two weeks! - which would seriously reduce growth. Losing an hour or two of daytime isn't a big deal.

I've not FIMmed for ScroG, but I would think it would definitely be doable. LST is another option you might consider; something I'm currently playing with.

-mu

 

from my exper. that should have no affect on them, in my grows, i randomy give them 3-4 24 hr. periods of darkness, this is just me, but i think it makes the plant more resiness.

 

It is pretty hard to induce hermihood into a plant.
Especially this late in flowering.

Since my timers keep dying on me, I manually control the light.
So during vegging mine get 18 hours a day or 14 if I sleep late.
During flowering mine have seen anything from 10 hours darkness to 35 when I forgot to turn on the light.
The extra darkness actually seemed to help bud production.
Sometimes I'm so stoned I forget to turn off the light during flowering on time so they also got 15 hours of light sometimes.
No signs of hermihood.

But ofcourse if you've tortured the plant with bad soil, excess nutes, bug infestations, extreme temperature variations and the occasional 'dropped light-fixture' then messing up the light cycle might be the drop that spills the hermihood bucket.

So relax!

 

Some strains are less much likely to turn hermie than others, that's for sure. Darkness, dryness and cold nights should all make your plants more resinous, and increase the wet/dry ratio, but it's usually best to keep these kinds of capers to the end of the flowering period. As urgr8estfear says, hermies are much more likely early in flowering. One big blast of cold+dark+dry completes the effect.

As for manually controlling the light, sod that! You are tied to your growroom, which sucks. I mean, it's great to while away the hours in there, but there's limits. You just need to get decent timers and contactors, which last "for ever".

-mu

ps. like this; my 12/12 DIN rail...

 

Do those 12/12 DIN thingies survive high frequency feedback and/or resonant harmonics?
My fluro team makes the internal circuitry go bananas on all timers tried so far.