Do Plants Need A “Resting” Period Or Is The 24 Hour Light Cycle The Best?

[@suki4410]

When something in your tent needs a rest, it is your LED-board. Then you should try new timings like 10h light, 2h dark, 10h light, 2h dark. Two cyles in one day!

[@Walterwhitebeoch]

r u dumb actually

[@governmentsnizzinspector2305]

I rack mine for about 15hrs under an old light-mover with a 400MH; then put them in the sun; then repeat.

[@JoseReyes-xs3js]

Ive grown weed with the lights on 24 7 for weeks it grows fast and big speacily in veg but im not sure if that is good for the plants or healthy for the plant may be less root mass when lights are on 24/7 but its probably better to have both rest period and a light periods time schedule . I heard night darkness and rest helps for developing roots . So when i would leave my plants on 24/7 for about 3 weeks then i would go back to normal schedule day and night schedule for 2 more weeks b4 flowering . I would leaves the lights on 24 /7 to get a bigger and taller plants faster growth in less days . Thats one reason i use to do that back in the day .

[@PanasonicTooth]

I have 6 plants going atm in veg on 24 hour lighting only because 2 of them are plants that were a few weeks into flower when I got them so trying to reveg. So baically you think they'll all be fine if i keep the 24/7 schedule until the 2 plants reveg then just set lights back to 18/6 for a couple weeks?

[@governmentsnizzinspector2305]

Great in the winter too.. Keeps your house warm.

[@Catch_u_reloadn]

I'm going to try 24-hour cycle for some autoflowers

[@suki4410]

At least for the first week! Then you can change to 20h light.

[@Catch_u_reloadn]

@@suki4410 nope going full 24

[@suki4410]

Yes, you can, as long as there is enough co2 and nutrients.@@Catch_u_reloadn

[@ericdoran4313]

Did it but didn't see a difference in growth but can't hurt them so yolo

[@BirdieBlrrrd]

@@ericdoran4313it worked well for me with mephisto beans

[@TheHogfan40oz]

I went to a 16/8 veg to try and save on electricity and I'm thinking about doing 11/13 for bloom. That artic blast killed my electric bill

[@jmarsh378]

How did they do at 16/8m

[@TheHogfan40oz]

I just switched to this. My last run was 18/6 and 12/12

[@loopmantra8314]

Photoperiods need 12 hours of complete and uninterrupted darkness to flower properly. If you really want to cut down electricity, go with 6/12 (in favour of darkness ofc) for example, they'll flower just fine but be warned - you're losing a lot of biomass that way, same thing with cutting down veg time..

[@chrisdomingo9143]

I grow on a 16/8 schedule… I live in Kauai so electricity is crazy … I don’t see why it wouldn’t work .compared to Hawaii light cycle that’s always in flower year round so I veg inside then throw um out … but in the summer time 4 months time 2 veg 2 flower it’s just how it is becuz of the 12/12 night day we get about an once or 2 a plant … so that’s why I veg inside

[@tomare6479]

The federal government dept of education killed young male education especially in black areas, such that now we have very little male teachers for male likely classes

[@kellyhill4410]

I thought that the daylight hours were more of a 12/12 environment on the equator thus the reason why sativas on the equator predominantly take 14 to 20 weeks. 🤔

[@Daniel_Callie]

Refreshing to hear real science - big contrast to the excess bro-sci in canna world

[@realreggaelutionrecords]

But a plant on the equator is accustomed to 12/12 with a 2 HR swing at most . So you would think they would be most effected by 24hr light . . Where as a Danish plant will get 20 hrs light , though only for a short time as the swing is much faster the further from the equator.

[@skylarbluebluenosebully8535]

How many photons are they taking in a day? I think plants in warmer climates that do not get much of a reduced day response to the amount of photons versus amount of daylight versus nighttime. I think the plant decided to evolve to accept a certain level of photons versus timing of light.

[@realreggaelutionrecords]

@@skylarbluebluenosebully8535 equatorial plants receive more intense light, i.e more photons per hour , due to the proximity and angle of the sun . However they receive less hours of sun ( summer months of course) . The plants had no say in this and have to adapt. Their metabolism decreases and the growth of sexual maturity and flowering usually lengthens .

[@skylarbluebluenosebully8535]

@@realreggaelutionrecords so I was in the ballpark? Got it. Lol.

[@siemenjanssens2885]

Verry useful video thanks! Deserves more views.

[@Xavier_Reynolds97]

Can confidently say 24hrs makes for a incredible grow, bigest fastest geow ever seen 65days seed to harvest

[@gavinpowell3107]

After he mention you get more hp if you run your engine 24hrs a day I had a bro science moment

[@adamtowers2868]

Srsly, what did he even mean by that 😂

[@hobiegillis9453]

This guy doesn't know anything about cars. Belt accessories, horsepower and such. He's the exact type of person that will just make things up when they don't have an answer for a question. Mr. Grow It is just interviewing anyone these days?

[@jeffngarden]

@@hobiegillis9453sorry bro you wrong Nick is deeply educated and gives great information (Grow Cast with Nick rooted leaf) so much great information bro

[@walterlodzinski6847]

The phasing of the question wasn’t right imo. I run 18/6. But I’ve run 24 before when I first started. The question more would be. Cannabis is classified as a C3 plant which means it technically doesn’t require a night cycle to grow. Do you recommend a night cycle over none. And why. Or what could the possible cons be for running 24/7….because of your DLI is dialed to 24 hours you wouldn’t be over driving them as hard as people were before anyone was considering DLI. So if environment, light, irrigation, and nutrition were all dialed to a T (for example), would running 24 hours still have cons or would it be hard to tell a difference. Maybe less terps, maybe less potency. Maybe less secondary metabolites etc. all good talking points. I don’t advocate for a 24 hour light period but people would want to know this info is my guess

[@einfachNurIch911]

There is a german Podcast by @VinceAndWeed with the Headgrower of @GrowMotion. He said his perspective was they are more stressed and they will not look like your usual healthy plants. But therefore potency and Canabinoids are raising

[@David_Mash]

What about short light cycles. Does this exercise the plants like muscles to inspire growth? Such as 60 second or 60 minute cycling.

[@DanL-j6b]

I did that, micro plants with awful yeilds resulted

[@David_Mash]

@DanL-j6b how many patterns did you try? Or which intervals?

[@DanL-j6b]

@@David_Mash 1 hr on one off, it was 7 years ago when only HPS was viable. i was trying to prevent extremes of heat.

[@johnnyb4869]

In nature they get a night cycle 😊

[@David.-zr5ph]

Is 24 hrs a day better for the first week,or 18/6? .

[@BirdieBlrrrd]

I ran full grow for 24 hours. All plants were done 6-11 days earlier than expected but I’m not sure it affected yield. They ate more to keep the growth up.

[@TK400K]

What’s the day and night for seedlings

[@kidprolific7957]

18/6

[@DanL-j6b]

24 hrs until 1st leaves start yellowing slightly

[@governmentsnizzinspector2305]

I think 24hr at first and work them hard as children then dial it back. Keep them cool.

[@Hppyhppy2]

What if harmful things to the plants need sleep so it kills the harmful things more Then the plants . Little bugs with eyes that can’t close so the critter never sleeps and dies of exhaustion

[@Killacorn]

you know this guy knows nothing about vehicles when he says that if you let your car engine run all day you get more horsepower😂

[@Versatileslim305]

😂😂😂😂

[@iananderson33able]

12/12 Last 10 days 18/6 during flushing with one hour of uv in the final hour 💪

[@erichood3169]

IME hydro and 24 7 works well. Soil meh.

[@jayydizzzlle279]

Syntheticly man made car, that can not reproduce cells and cell walls being COMPARED to a carbon-based LIFEFORM than CAN re produce cells and all that... sounds like a terrible comparison to me..

[@Servechristlord]

Lol small brain

[@chadhurry2354]

Plants didn't evolve so

[@JoseReyes-xs3js]

Plants can evolve that's why they got auto flowers or look at weed in the 80s was like 5 percent thc now its like 40 percent thc the potency evolve certain genes In plants can evolve sometimes not always but its possiblein some cases.

[@eggspanda2475]

what ?

[@BirdieBlrrrd]

@@JoseReyes-xs3jsauto flowers came from breeding with ruderalis. The thc percentages are higher because humans have bred for it. I’d also like to add that chasing looks and thc above 20% destroyed cannabis.

[@neusikesho3438]

“I think” does NOT equal science.

[@eggspanda2475]

yes thinking is absolutely part of science . you should try it