Tutankharmon - 400HPS - Soil Coco Mix - Grow

im currently growing auto's, so im using perpetual 18/6 but with the next batch i will try GLR
OZ, this is what i researched and thought was the best explanation and instructions, i don't remember who the author is, if anyone knows let me know to give credit:

"The Vegetative Schedule

This method is quite simple: 12 hours of light, followed by five and one half hours of darkness, a single hour of light exactly, and then a second period of five and one half hours of darkness. Placing a full hour of light in the very center of a 12-hour dark period tricks the plant and interrupts the buildup up of sensitive floral hormones, which would normally trigger flowering by destroying them. The grower simply raises the plants to the desired size before switching to the fall schedule to bloom.

Using this method, vegetative duration may be also reduced, and with a shorter growth cycle comes more frequent and better production. Vegetative cycles can be shortened by one to two weeks, and flowering may also be shortened a week or more using this method in con- junction with a diminishing light schedule.

For patients growing their own medicine or for compassionate cannabis providers, production turnover may be increased from four to five crops per year or more using rotation, and power consumption can be reduced even further by the use of high-intensity fluorescent lighting during vegetation, and overall, power consumption savings can be 50 percent or more.

The Flowering Schedule

Plants that have been grown up using the Gas Lantern Routine are now supercharged with floral hormones, and ready to go into flower with the slightest provocation. The interruption of the dark period has been destroying enough of the naturally building hormones to keep the plant from expressing sex, and the well-rested plant now has plenty of stored nutrients and energy to finish its life cycle and flower. Triggering the plants is essentially just a matter of removing the interrupting light period, so the plants may now experience the full buildup of hormones that will trigger blooming.

In keeping with providing all the correct organic biological and environmental needs of the plant, the diminishing fall schedule should be employed to take full advantage of the hormonal preparation created by using the Gas Lantern Routine. The diminishing hours of light in nature trigger acceleration in the production of hormones in the plant, making it flower with increasing speed and power.

The Diminishing Lighting Schedule

The diminishing fall schedule begins with an evenly halved light schedule, using 12 hours for the first two weeks to trigger the plant into bloom, and then further reducing the lighting for increasing darkness time by one half hour every week.

The final week of flowering will provide the plants with a mere nine hours of light, with 15 hours of darkness, forcing a resulting final explosive hormonal buildup. This sends the plant into blooming overdrive and produces resin far beyond the normal plant’s limits.
When the Gas Lantern Routine and Diminishing Light Schedule are used together, they create healthier, more naturally robust plants. These important and historical botanical techniques are soon going to become very important techniques in the coming years as medicinal cannabis research continues to advance. When viewed from cost of production, organics, and medicinal needs, the methods currently being promoted can be seen counter to the interests of growing healthy plants. Understanding your plants is the best way to grow the best medicine, and looking for solutions to growing problems by observing nature always provides the right answers."
 
Good morning LA hope ur well and waking up as fresh as the outside air brrrrrrr it's nippy out today mate

Netsman
Good post. Reps for that. I'd never lookid into much. So really through veg ur never using more light than if u were in flower
 
Great Info post Netstatmen, I like info like that on my thread +reps to you!
I'm being lazy this time round and vegging my other girls under 24/0, Its all part of my madness to stunt little Gitt to be honest. If I'd gone 18/6 she would have been even bigger and she still has over a month to veg so anything I can do to keep her stunted is good!
I might go GLR then my altered time frame for flower all the way through with little Molly Mcfly (WW). He he talking of which the other night I left her in with gert over the night(dark period) Then last night pulled her out and sat her by door of kitchen on counter so I would remember her and chuck her back in veg! Ooops kind of forgot again so she had 10 hours of dark in kitchen lol.

Alex, good fine day to you Sir!
 
Just FULLY read Nets post :) GREAT info mate and very welcome. I'm basically copying (well, trying to lol) EVERYTHING LA is doing with the gorgeous Gert :) :Love: I'm getting a tad ahead of myself talking about light patterns etc but it's DEFO something I want to explore for future grows. Have some reps from me sir :high-five::thanks:
 
Oz its; 12hrs of light then 5.5 dark, 1 light, 5.5 dark then back to 12 light. then repeat. I'd be very interested in this through veg then hitting the 21.36 hrs of daylight schedule I do for the entirety of flowering?!
 
Mate, IF I had the space I would try it on two of these little girls :) I agree that light patterns play a MAJOR part in growth and yield. Also quality :)
 
Thanks cult I forgot about the wee hour in the middle lol
Does anyone here swear by he method? Or anyone found negatives to it? Stress etc? If it's a good veg cycle with nill adverse effects weed all be silly to pay 18 hours light wen only need 11.

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Good day
 
He he! Cheers my friend. Just some Gert pics for her fans! She is looking ok ish? she is budding up now nicely but all leaves are yellowing. a lot look like they should come off. So will see what she looks like tomoz and if her big feed from today ain't fixed her up a little I'll flush her! I'm hoping I don't have to as just built her up to explode! (tomoz is about when the extra daylight should show results in budding force)
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Gorgeous Gert :green_heart: Do you think the back building has anything to do with the yellowing mate? Just thinking it MUST be pretty stressful? ......99 and counting :)
 
Nah mate the back building is all good believe me. I've struggled keeping any amount of deep green in this girl! Also the back building is such a tiny little clip off, that it doesn't in my opinion cause much stress, none that is too bad anyway. On my other girls, they haven't even missed a beat after my little surgery lol
 
Aww mate that sucks if its on you already! I know how you wanted a bit longer on em.
 
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