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Accidental longer dark period in veg.

Limolax

Member
Hi there.
Is one session of longer than usual darkness gonna hurt my plants while in veg state?
Here is the story. I left home 2 days ago. It was light cycle for plants. Things looks ok. Came back home last night at 3am. It was dark. Yale for plants. Things looked ok. Woke up at noon and the veg closet was dark still !! Was supposed to get on at 6am. Fixed the fixture and it got back on. Don't know exactly for how long it was dark for them. But best case is that it was dark for around 10 hours and worst case is around 24 hours. So let's say it was dark for 24 hours or so. Is that gonna hurt my plants???
My veg light cycle is 20-4 normally. And my plants are 22 days old. Here is a picture taken right after fixing the light.
 
you should be fine i would say.. one day of 24 hour darkness shouldnt effect them.
i do use the words shoukd and shouldnt cause would hate to say you defently wont and your posting back a few weeks later telling me how much of a knob head i am.. personally i wouldnt stress about it..
 

Snook

Still Learning
plants are 'stressed' most while in bloom. in veg, light regime is not as critical as in bloom... although sticking to an 18/6 (or similar) is best.. while in bloom though, they will respond badly (stress/hermie) to irregular light regime but they can only gage irregularity in lighting when the lights come back on after the dark period... if it isn't the same (in bloom) they do not know if they are supposed to veg or bloom.:tiphat:
 
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