Perpetual Light Cycles, More cycles in less days...Your thoughts...

[b10narybud]

I've heard of it before but have any of you done it here?

i'm running a autoflower plant so i'm gonna run 18/6 throughout the whole grow cycle or an equivalent.

I've broken things down, and came up with a 15/5 light cycle which would work ok with my manual timers.

The point of this is to get more full growth/light cycles withing a shorter ammount of time. It would go as follows.

12am - 3pm ON Start day 1
3pm - 8pm OFF
8pm - 11am ON Transition to day 2
11am - 4pm OFF
4pm - 7am ON Transiton to day 3
7am - 12pm OFF
12pm - 3 am ON Transition to day 4
3am - 8am OFF
8am - 11pm ON
11pm - 4am OFF Transition to day 5
4am - 7pm ON
7pm - 12am OFF Transition to day 6
12am - 3pm ON
3pm - 8pm OFF
8pm - 11am ON Transition to day 7
11am - 4pm OFF
4pm - 7am ON Transition to day 8
7am - 12pm OFF
12pm - 3 am ON Transition to day 9
3am - 8am OFF
8am - 11pm ON
11pm - 4am OFF Transition to day 10
4am - 7pm ON
7pm - 12am OFF Transition to day 11
12am - 3pm ON
3pm - 8pm OFF
8pm - 11am ON Transition to day 12
11am - 4pm OFF
4pm - 7am ON Transition to day 13
7am - 12pm OFF
12pm - 3 am ON Transition to day 14
3am - 8am OFF
8am - 11pm ON
11pm - 4am OFF Transition to day 15
4am - 7pm ON
7pm - 12am OFF

AND SO ON......

this setup would allow me to get 18 light cycles...in 15 days time..overall giving me about a week or 2 worth more of light cycles... I know theres other variations out there...and it works so much better with a programmable digital timer...but...whatever...

What are your views and opinions on this?

 

[Verite]

Why do you need 3 seperate posts to discuss alternate light cycles?

And whats up with the 'test' post? You think after 100 posts you'de 'get it'.

 

[b10narybud]

sorry it kept giving me database errors saying to retry and shit...i didnt realize it was posting them when it told me it wasnt...i'm sure you realize all the shit happening to the server right now....

 

[Guest]

what I have been doing is 21/3

then I plan on working down to a 12/12

 

[b10narybud]

here it goes..i'm gonna start it today.....in 10 minutes.i'm gonna knock the lights out