6/2 Lighting?

[AdaminCO]

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This is a new one for me.
Has anyone heard of this schedule?
What’s everyone’s thoughts?

 

[EhCndGrower]

I actually tried this with my 2nd grow, but I fucked up and killed my grow. I got about 10 weeks of veg in before they died. Overall I didn’t think the difference was that much better/different compare to the 18/6 schedule I switched back to regrowing them from seed again. Plus I like having my whole afternoon to check on my grow and not having to wait for that 2hrs of darkness to finish. That grow will be starting it’s 12/12 tomorrow

 

[LiberalThinker]

Contrary to the article's assertion, the system is put under triple the frequency of stress by undergoing more contraction/expansion cycles from warming and cooling as the system lights up and turns off. Thermal expansion breaks things. Look forward to components having a shorter life. If the system can chug a away in a steady, uninterrupted manner it will last longer. As for the plant, I don't think the night component is long enough, which is when the plant makes tissue. The gaslight method makes more sense to me.

 

[AdaminCO]

Contrary to the article's assertion, the system is put under triple the frequency of stress by undergoing more contraction/expansion cycles from warming and cooling as the system lights up and turns off. Thermal expansion breaks things. Look forward to components having a shorter life. If the system can chug a away in a steady, uninterrupted manner it will last longer. As for the plant, I don't think the night component is long enough, which is when the plant makes tissue. The gaslight method makes more sense to me.

Agree. If I was to change my time
schedule, that’s what I’d do.

I’ve been reading a lot of different controversial topics and posting the good ones in my sig. There’s a lot of bs out there and it’s hard to know what’s good info, and what others call bro science.

This is the first I’ve heard 6/2 though so I thought I’d see what folks think. I’d test the theory, but Im maxed out on plants, and only have 1 room.

 

[EhCndGrower]

Might not be the best examples to show because I tried the 6/2 trying the mainlining grow technique. So roughly Day 50 in veg

Current grow, Day 50 today in first day of flowering. Also tried quadlining but snapped the limb off 3 of them but accident. Same strains grown again (but back middle is a new addition. Dutch Passion’s Critical Orange Punch) from seed but the tall guy in the back(Black Sugar) that survived my purge

Roughly all grew the same height, but I will admit I prefer mainlining to quadlining just because of the easiness of training and overall cleaner look.

 

[AdaminCO]

What’s that big girl in the back. No trim?

 

[AdaminCO]

Man, I just got a message from 420 saying that they deleted all of those links in my signature because they thought I was spammer.
I spent a long ass time researching that stuff. Lol! FN stupid. Guess I need to start saving links to the phone. SMH

 

[EhCndGrower]

What’s that big girl in the back. No trim?

My Black Sugar was from my first attempt at my 2nd grow. I killed every one of my plants by accident but she survived somehow. She’s the bottom left plant in the first picture. So she was trained as a mainline attempted grow. I think I have 16 colas stems which I will lollipop a bit more, soonish. Only been vegging for 19 weeks

 

[Monkeyluv]

Nice thread going on here AdaminCO, and so much to learn regarding different lighting schedules. This is one I'm going to follow in earnest, so I can form my own opinion before I depart into a different direction, and experiment on my own. Thank you all for your time and experience, educating those how wish to expand their understanding, and improve their success.

 

[No Pain]

never tried it . I have read about it and understand it theory. I do feel that it would create a lot of stress on photo period stains moving from that schedule to a 12/12 for flowering which it what you would need. I try to mimic mother nature as closely as possible a well she doesn't provide that kind of light schedule .