Gastro Pop #4 is in the 4th week of the budding process I believe. I have reduced sunlight with a 50% shade cloth.Growing outside in June July we are obtaining 16 hours of sunlight currently.
Will this shade cloth help with bud development? How crucial is a maximum of 12 hours of light during budding. Will this plant fully bud like the images on hightimes.
This is an organic grow. Currently giving bush doctor twice a week in between regular waterings.
Light is not the criteria. Cannabis needs a minimum of 12 hours of complete darkness to begin to flower. Growing outdoors you are at the mercy of the sun and it’s cycles. Where are you that you are getting 16 hours of sunlight a day? We just had our longest day of the year and we had about 13.5 hours of sunlight.
Ohio… June 21st summer solstice
Hi @mbradle1989
You could block out the light with some black plastic so that the plant stays in flower. With your long summer sunlight days, you will more than likely force the plant to reveg. Also the plant could get to big for the box you have created, you still have several weeks of flower time, and that plant should get much bigger.
20th.
Marty
It’s about 15 hours in Ohio, same pretty much as Missouri. The 20th is Summer solstice.
Marty
The sun will rise at 6:00am and set at 9:00pm Ohio today.
I have been using a black out shade cloth and tarp to control the darkness to no less then 12 hours darkness everyday with the shade and black out tarps
The plant seems to be doing well;
No it will not help development actually it will hinder it. But what it will do is help control the heat inside that window box greenhouse. The more light the plants can get the better it grows. The 2 highest light using plants are corn and cannabis. Watch a few lectures about how sunlight interacts with plants and you will have a better understanding. I like to watch Dr. Bruce bugbee at Utah state university. We have a unique liscence to study hemp and cannabis here in utah. He has some fascinating lectures and there working on growing hemp in space and other vegetable plants. This has been happening for years already. Cannabis is the ferrari of plants in terms of light usage. They actually havent found a light cap yet. If you fuel the plant with enough c02 and have your parameters right then you can really grow big plants.
Heres a link to bruces biography. Space farming how cool right?
