omnigr33n said:How much light leakage is too much light leakage? and how detrimental is a little iota of light anyway?
It's really not the length of time that the light is present, it's the fact that the plant has "seen" the light and it's hormone delivery within it's own system is altered by the interruption in the dark cycle.omnigr33n said:Shoot. I think Im ok for now though. My plant is like a week or two from harvest. What do u consider light leakage though? How much light is required for something to be worried about? Does it have to be constant light leakage in order to have adverse affects on the plant? Like a light leakage example?
Stoney Bud said:The poster before me has used green light of a certain spectrum and intensity and has had no ill effects. I'd hate to try that on an entire crop and turn it into a seed crop of Hermie's.
Mutt said:Also the "green" light bulb may be of such a low wattage that the lumens produced and the distance is such that there is not enough light to "trigger" the photosynthesis process of the plant.
Yesomnigr33n said:Ok well let me better explain what kind of light leakage I have to deal with sometimes. I have two doors that seperate the plant. Now the main door is always shut but I leave the second door ajar a bit. Sometimes when my main living room light is on Im worried that a little light is being "seen" by the plant thru the bottom of the door in the second little closet.I mean will that little tiny amount of possibley "seen" light make a huge difference or am I being paranoid. Because Im not home all the time to make sure it doesnt go on. My family comes downstairs sometimes.
Stoney Bud said:It's really not the length of time that the light is present, it's the fact that the plant has "seen" the light and it's hormone delivery within it's own system is altered by the interruption in the dark cycle.
If it's only once, here and there, for brief duration, it's a toss of the dice if it causes full or partial Hermaphrodites, or does nothing at all.
It is possible to create Hermaphrodites with only a very dim amount of light interrupting the dark cycle.
You run a risk of Hermaphrodites when using green lights as well. As I've posted elsewhere on this group before, plants see green light very well. The myth that green light isn't seen by a plant has been disproved and recognized as such by anyone in the professional botanical world. The text books used in schools will reflect this new discovery.
The poster before me has used green light of a certain spectrum and intensity and has had no ill effects. I'd hate to try that on an entire crop and turn it into a seed crop of Hermie's.
It's best to plan your day around the lights when they're on, and just stay out of the place during the light cycle.
The moon is does not produce enough light for the plants to usekrotch said:if it has to be pitch black, then what the fudge do outside growers do about the moon?
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