Question about growing autos and photos together

**scorpion** · 14-02-22, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by Farmer Geddon

If you have the patience, photos can be cheaper per gram if you veg them 12/12 alongside a small 'don't be flowering' light.

12 weeks autos at 24/0 = 2016 hours. 18 weeks photos at 12/12 = 1512 hours. (Can be less than 18 weeks.)

That’s good for thought cheers bud

**MrC** · 14-02-22, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Sadface

Photo all the way without taking the thread off topic into another direction ,and as grow using 1800w hps I'm fucked if I'm running 3 month cycles on 20/4 ,if Aprils elec prices don't change a lot of folks minds ,I'd be very shocked ...

Well well, not just a pretty face, I hadn't even considered that lol. Maybe a shift to full on photos in april. If not I'll be runnin about 850w 24/7

**scorpion** · 14-02-22, 09:52 AM

Originally Posted by Sadface

Photo all the way without taking the thread off topic into another direction ,and as grow using 1800w hps I'm fucked if I'm running 3 month cycles on 20/4 ,if Aprils elec prices don't change a lot of folks minds ,I'd be very shocked ...

Appreciate all input m8, the only reason or reasons lol I don’t do photos really is the light part and it herming on me, saying that I had a free critical auto this time and I had about 10 seeds off the bastard,pretty para about the electric going up myself bud I worry as it is and I only have a 150w hlg running plus the fan, exhaust and camera now, when u say 3 month cycles is that the flowering your doing for 3 months so veg then 16 week flower, that part always confuses me lol the thing that really makes me want to do them is the breeding revegging/clones/having a mother plant all the time and hopefully getting more bud ovs lol cheers m8

**MrC** · 14-02-22, 09:54 AM

I think he means he'd be fucked if he had to run 1800w hps on 24/7 or 20/4

With photos usually a minimum of 4-5 wks veg to let it mature then up to 12 weeks in flower, usually 9-10 wks of flower is ok to chop in my experience

**scorpion** · 14-02-22, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by MrC

Well well, not just a pretty face, I hadn't even considered that lol. Maybe a shift to full on photos in april. If not I'll be runnin about 850w 24/7

Good to see you about again m8, should have wrote not just a sadface lol (no harm meant sad)

**Farmer Geddon** · 14-02-22, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Sadface

Photo all the way without taking the thread off topic into another direction ,and as grow using 1800w hps I'm fucked if I'm running 3 month cycles on 20/4 ,if Aprils elec prices don't change a lot of folks minds ,I'd be very shocked ...

I used to run 1800w hps. 3 cabs on a staggered harvest. The leccy bill was the reason I started vegging 12/12. I was doing scrogs and barely noticed any extra stretch because of the missing 6 hours.