Hey everyone, had a question regarding light tolerance on flowering plants during dark cycle.
I recently had to make a few changes to my grow tent to accommodate temp and humidity.
After getting everything corrected, I noticed I may have a light leak at the bottom of the tent from one of the vent holes. I have my darkcycle set to coordinate with with the dark cycle where I live to minimize any light that may be abke to get in. However I didn’t notice this light leak for a couple days. Is there a way to tell if I’ve done any permanent damage. This shit is stressing me out . I really hope I didn’t hurt my girls.
I can post pics if anyone thinks it will help.
Thanks everyone for your help!
Happy Growing!
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Dont stress too much if it was only a couple days. Not to sure how much light a plant can handle in the dark cycle, but it can stress your plant out, and you might might get a hermie. But dont worry too much, hope for the best and keep growing.
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If there not very far into flowering. Like say the beginning or you just flipped and they haven started budding you shoukd be ok. But if your in 2/3 of the way into flower. Thats not good. But i have forgottent to close my vents on my own tents a couple times and the tent next door is a 24 lights on tent and it was blasting the plants with light and they should have been asleep. But everything was just fine. No hermies. But some strains are sensative and can hermie easily. I have seen it myself on my own grow. I had a purple runtz that if you didnt trim the shoots below the canopy they would hermie because of lack of light. I cloned it couple times to test it out on 3 different grows it was so easy to make it hermie. But if you lolly popped it there was no hermie issue. it was strange enough i stopped growing that one. Because i didnt want it to polinate my entire garden. I already have 9 original clones from seed. And i only kept 1 white runtz and 4 runtz clones the rest i weeded out.
@PreyBird1 they are on day 14 of flower today. The vent hole also has a layer of black garden fabric over it to minimize light getting in as well as pests. Here’s a picture. Not the whole garden but should give you an idea of what im working with.
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Well shit you should be fine then. You should defoliate the leaves and shoots below canopy. Or you wil get larfy buds.
@PreyBird1 This seems to be the hardest thing for me to get right. I have done some defoliating. Not sure how far to go. If I took a pic of the undercarriage would you be able to give me a little more guidance?
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I also think I may be seeing a small bit of PWM. can i just cut any fan leaves off that i see this on no matter how far up the plant. As long as they are fan leaves and not sugar leaves?
Research lolypop cannabis plant. Pretty much anything under the leaves is wasting energy making tiny airy buds. The idea is to get light onto each bud site. Instead of lots of tiny buds think energy going to less buds and making them larger buds. Low stress training is the way to go. Its the fastest most efficient way to make the plant make the most buds and biggest yields.
@preybird1 thanks dude I appreciate the help, I have bigger problems now as I was defoliating i noticed what I think are thrips. FML. Not even sure if i should try to finish this off at this point
Oh shit get some spinosad quick they got it at lowes home depot. Thrips are attracted to blue sticky traps.
thats ok to spray week 2 of flower?
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Yes i would still spray. If you dont youll have a huge infestation. Trust me ask me how i know?
Lol ok will do. Probably can’t until 2moro at this point. At least I think it’s thrips. Little tiny yellow looking things that move pretty quick.
so it could be spider mites as well?
Looks like the picture, accept not nearly that many. I only noticed a few on a few leaves.
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Yep sure sounds like them soon they can fly and your in trouble.
Stuff on the 2nd to the right. easy to find and work you have to spray every 3 days DO NOT SLACK OFF.
Mites move slow compared to a thrip. Thrips are like super tiny rice grain shapped and like to hide in ribs of leafs. If you try and touch them they jump. hard to see little micro bastards act quickly and decisively a insectes reproduction is fater than you imagine. Comple hatches in 3 days. Go to the store now.
The stuff in the middle is for pests and powdery mildew. Man sucks.
