Can erratic lighting times stress autoflowers?

[Xtensity]

So my seedlings just popped, and I have them under some CFLs just until I go move them outside.

Thing is I dont have any cooling where they are at..

Would it hurt them if I had them on an erratic lighting schedule? Even they are autoflowers? I know erratic lighting schedules can stress plants that depends on the light times but what about auto flowers?

For security and safety reasons I don't want to run them during the day while I am here. Would it hurt them if I had them on for like 15 hours during some days, and 24 hours on other days?

I'm just doing this to get them started and I will be moving them outside in a week or 2 when they are big enough to transplant.

 

[love?]

This may be something you have to experiment with yourself as growing autoflowering cannabis indoors is still quite a young phenomenon.

Please let us know your findings.

If I had to guess I'd say they'll be fine though. Especially if they're still gonna get so much on the lesser light days. Even some non-autoflowering strains might be ok with that?

 

[Xtensity]

This may be something you have to experiment with yourself as growing autoflowering cannabis indoors is still quite a young phenomenon.

Please let us know your findings.

If I had to guess I'd say they'll be fine though. Especially if they're still gonna get so much on the lesser light days. Even some non-autoflowering strains might be ok with that?

It's a young phenomenon? I though people grew them most often indoors then out.

Anyways they're barely a day out literally, just sprouted.

They're also in this box for security, a box which has no venting lol.

Most of the day I can leave the lid off and the cieling fan in my room is more then enough to get the air flowing, though when the lid is on and lights are on it gets up to like 100 degrees in the box.

I'm going out tomarrow to look for a little clip fan I can put in there for the next week, and I asked about the lighting times because I don't like to keep the lights on when the lid is closed, and I can't have the lid off for a certain parts of the day for security reasons.


I doubt this will kill them, but I just don't want them to hermy, mainly because I'm doing this for a seed run, so I don't have to buy more. It'll be pointless if I get a bunch of hermied seeds because I dont want seeds with every grow

 

[Bighill]

IF hermi is in the genes, or dominant in that pheno, good chance it could bring it out. Too hot can bring it out, too much/less water, light leaks are proven to bring it out, PH.. Pretty much any un wanted stress can change the sex. On the same token you might want to bring it out to see what not to breed with. What strain is it? Seems some AF genes are more prone to this.

Your in a tough spot, if it was me i would set a schedule that i KNEW i could be there to keep the top off.. Maybe while your sleeping or home for the night. Or just try to find a cheap-o timer and mod the box with some PC fans and light proof it. Even a passive intake/exhaust would help some what, the heats going to rise, might as well use it to your advatage.

Edit: I just noticed you said your putting them outside in 2 weeks... I wouldn't worry about it. I haven't seen a seedling go hermi in my days. Only older ladies who are at least putting out flowers.

Bh

 

[IceColdCrickets]

It is always best to start OUTDOOR AFs OUTDOORS! In an simple small green house clear plastic sheeting and some PVC will work in a pinch. It makes them perform much better then taking Indoor started AFs outside to finish. Plant them in smaller pots pack them in the green house and wait until sex is shown, then transplant into final pot and harvest a little over a month later. DONE!

I did some a lot of testing on AFs a few yrs back,, I was trying to find a way to make them herm for making FEM seeds. Well I tested light stress, where i would put them in 3 hours on 3 hours off for the entire grow, also did some random lighting testing where one day they would be on for 18 hours the next 12 hours the next 8 hours the next 14 hours and so on.

The results where always the same, NEVER HERMIED, the only thing I really noticed was how most AF plants grow the best with no less then 20 hours of light per day, Plants with a 20 on 4 off schedule would always be the best, in terms of yeild and overall quality of the end product, so your erratic lighting may result in less yield and lower quality as it does stress the plants a bit.

So put your stuff outside , no worries,, just be sure the harden them off correctly before exposure to the sun.

ICC.

 

[love?]

It's a young phenomenon? I though people grew them most often indoors then out.

Hehe well what's young is very relative. When did Lowryder, which started it all, come out? The first I heard of it was 2003 or 2004 I think. And it's been a bit of a niche thing until quite recently, some might argue even still today, which limits the amount of experiments etc.

Btw why don't you want them to "hermie" if it's a seed crop? If there's hermie genes they'll be passed on even by healthy plants, whether or not the plants show problems because doesn't change anything in their children as far as I know (apart from pollen from female making feminised seed obviously). I'd rather find out which plants hermie easily so I can cull them. "Stress testing". Something to think about...

 

[Xtensity]

Hehe well what's young is very relative. When did Lowryder, which started it all, come out? The first I heard of it was 2003 or 2004 I think. And it's been a bit of a niche thing until quite recently, some might argue even still today, which limits the amount of experiments etc.

Btw why don't you want them to "hermie" if it's a seed crop? If there's hermie genes they'll be passed on even by healthy plants, whether or not the plants show problems because doesn't change anything in their children as far as I know (apart from pollen from female making feminised seed obviously). I'd rather find out which plants hermie easily so I can cull them. "Stress testing". Something to think about...

Yes I know I don't want them to hermy, but I don't care about yield this run really, this is largely a seed run.

My next run I can plant many many plants and filter out all the males.