LED Stretch
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:30 pm
Has anyone figured out how to control the stretch with LED lighting?
A while back, a friend of mine, Rky, suggested something that made a lot of sense to me..but I haven't heard if anyone has tried it.
The thought was to start the 12/12 flower cycle using ONLY the Veg spectrum/settings, then after some time to show sex & flowers to start developing, switch to the full bloom setting on the light.
With my "Restart from seed" journal, here on this site I sorta tried Rky's idea. I ended up with 2 females.... a big and a small.(Germinated in 2 batches about 10 days apart...might be part of the reason for the contrast in size) I killed off the bigger of the two and decided to let the smaller one continue on....so what I have experienced is based on only one plant.
But my little female has stayed little...so far! Just for grins, I flipped this batch of seedlings using the blue spectrum of my 357 Mangum only...and they stayed under the veg lighting, on 12/12, until sex was positively shown. So this one plant got full spectrum only after she was moved out into where I flower. She is still only about 9-10" tall and getting loaded with flowers. We have a few spotted leaves cuz the numbers got out of whack, but we have corrected that and she is showing signs of improvement....and staying relatively small compared with past grows....
Has anyone else tried this?? Is anyone getting ready to flower under LEDs? I don't know if what I am experiencing is a fluke or if we have stumbled onto something?? I hope others will try it soon!
Let's hear your experiences and how you deal with LED Stretch....
Happy
A while back, a friend of mine, Rky, suggested something that made a lot of sense to me..but I haven't heard if anyone has tried it.
The thought was to start the 12/12 flower cycle using ONLY the Veg spectrum/settings, then after some time to show sex & flowers to start developing, switch to the full bloom setting on the light.
With my "Restart from seed" journal, here on this site I sorta tried Rky's idea. I ended up with 2 females.... a big and a small.(Germinated in 2 batches about 10 days apart...might be part of the reason for the contrast in size) I killed off the bigger of the two and decided to let the smaller one continue on....so what I have experienced is based on only one plant.
But my little female has stayed little...so far! Just for grins, I flipped this batch of seedlings using the blue spectrum of my 357 Mangum only...and they stayed under the veg lighting, on 12/12, until sex was positively shown. So this one plant got full spectrum only after she was moved out into where I flower. She is still only about 9-10" tall and getting loaded with flowers. We have a few spotted leaves cuz the numbers got out of whack, but we have corrected that and she is showing signs of improvement....and staying relatively small compared with past grows....
Has anyone else tried this?? Is anyone getting ready to flower under LEDs? I don't know if what I am experiencing is a fluke or if we have stumbled onto something?? I hope others will try it soon!
Let's hear your experiences and how you deal with LED Stretch....
Happy