Originally Posted by
NZ_
Hi all,
About to do my first switch from 18/6 to 12/12.
Current cycle 18/6:
On: 20:30
Off: 14:30
The issue with this cycle (should have used a different one from the start) is that most of my free time to work on the plants is when they are in dark, which makes managing them annoying.
I need to go to 12/12 ASAP as I am going to run out of room.
My theory is to:
From 14:30 (normal off time), go dark until 08:00 the following morning (17.5 hours) and then turn the lights on 12/12. That way I have light from 8am to 8pm and I can get a lot more work done.
Will this be ok for the plants? Do you have any better suggestions to get my light cycle to a more usable time?
The other thing I need to do is take some clones off the plants for the next crop.
Will it be ok to wait for the plants to show their sex on 12/12, clone all the females, put them into another tent back on 18/6 and stop them flowering? Or is it better to clone all of the plants now before I switch to 12/12 and then throw out the ones that came off males?
Thanks in advance.
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