Originally Posted by
dbox2k6
just been reading a post about the 36 hour datrkness before switch, have u tried this ??
Just done this with mine but hard to tell if it's made a difference yet... the plant is a clone taken from the mother when it was 2 weeks into flowering (the first lot of cuttings I did while in veg weren't very good) so it's been ready to flower since it went into veg anyway! It's definitely started showing signs of proper flowering a few days sooner than it's mum did.
The reason for the period of darkness is that light kills the hormone that promotes flowering... by giving it a longer than usual night period before switching to 12/12, you're letting the flowering hormone build up. I'll definitely be doing it again on the next grow. In fact, I was wondering how long a plant could go without light before it got too stressed, to allow the hormone to build up even more.
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