There’s a Facebook group with lots of members who read all the Grow books of the '80’s '90’s and beyond. I was introduced to Joe and found him to be a breath of fresh air. Ed Rosenthal and high times pushed the 24 veg-12/12 flower for years. At the time I was being detected by electrical usage and decided to use a dawn/dusk using CFL and only Blast my 1000 watt HPS lights for 8 hours a day and needed redundant lighting backup as I automated my system as to cut down visits and throw off anyone monitoring me.
I was surprised when a power strip of CFL was accidentally overloaded or turned off, my partner was last in/out to do a ph adjustment and top off water but when I got to the site the growth was explosive in a 3 week time period. Unfortunately I started experiencing intruders who eventually got evicted but they’d forced a shut down before I got to try the 12/1 for veg.
The pics on FB do show increased yield but these aren’t controlled studies. Just individuals who compared the two. Presuming they used the same nutrients, water, temp, media, and strain, it really looks like they’ve got bigger yields and they claim it was in a shorter time. We all could use an extra harvest or two a year from our current Grow space and the savings on electricity and wear and tear on ballasts, bulbs and cutting down time between harvests is very appealing.
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