Summer Heat and light cycle question

[windycitysmoker]

Man it's getting really hot over here,and my house a/c is having trouble keeping up. I'm running a 1000 watt hid light as of now my girls get 17 - 18 hours of light 6am to around 12 at night. With this heat in Florida my buckets are getting way to hot,and the temps is around 87-90. I need to change the light cycle completely. Would I be able to switch the light cycle where the lights come on at night and they go off around say 11am with out fucking anything up?

 

[mowood3479]

Yes. Change it asap

 

[_tessarecting]

Yeah that's a good idea

 

[iboga]

Can't see it causing to much problems might pop a few pretty flowers but unlikely. keep us posted
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[windycitysmoker]

Okay thanks

 

[ChaosCatalunya]

In Rural areas you can find double the ambient CO2 at night time vs day, I cannot remember the last time I flowered during daytime.

If the room is still "too hot" (and root rot does not fuck it all up) you may well be better with a smaller lamp and/or mounted higher up, especially in the last 2 weeks when she is just finishing, swelling up what already exists. If you cook a flower then, you fry terpenes off real quick, leaving you with buds that smell and taste of nothing much.

 

[JamieShoes]

good point CC.. last 2 weeks I raise my lamps as high as I can get them and in some cases just use a 250w hps to finish off after the swell... I know I ain losing weight, I'm maturing resins at this stage so it's cheaper on my lekky bill too... as is flowering at night as I have a split meter... ie cheaper lekky at night

if you want to adjust a cycle ever in flowering, just leave them extra DARK.. so if you wanted to shift it a whole 12 hours, leave them 24 hours dark and everything will be fine (as long as the dark is more than 12 right ) In veg it's way more easy, turn off your high power lamps and put a desk lamp in there til you're ready to plug in your big lamps again.

 

[windycitysmoker]

Right now I'm in a closet 6 feet long 2 and a half feet long about 9 feet high I will post picks . I have a 400cfm blowing air to the bulb and out to the adic, I have a vent with ac coming in the closet, and three fans blowing around in the closet,I have a sealed tarp with a zipper and great negative pressure when I sip the tarp. I have changed the light cycle. I left the lights on all night and turned them off at 12 pm the will turn back on at 7-7 pm . I have tons of air in each dwc bucket 6 buckets total no reserve I hand water. No root rot at all tons of roots, som plants are bigger than others I just started back up so I'm not in order. I bug spoetnik/paradise. 4 bubblious/ nirvana. 5 autos thc bomb / bomb seeds.

 

[windycitysmoker]

 

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[windycitysmoker]

I got this far with out root rot. I'm not willing to gamble future harvest of getting root rot. I'm flowering in the next 20 days I will in vest in a complete dwc system with a reserve and a chiller. I hate adding a bucket of water to each plant every other day it becomes a pain in the ass.than my chiller can cool the entire system it's only 275 for a chiller. Does anyone have a system they could suggest. Six buckets with a res ..idk maybe water farm ?

 

[windycitysmoker]

78 with lights off

 

[ChingonLSU]

I have one indoor garage 2000w veg garden that sees over 100 degrees outdoors everyday and won't dip under 100 again until September and I don't have heat issues without an AC. My lights cut off from 12pm to 5pm. I use a lot of water (not cooled) and 5 times the ventilation of my garden near the coast (30 deg cooler), plants are in soil and oversized pots (air pots dry out faster, but if you can keep them damp with lots of ventilation you create a swamp cooler for your plants). For insurance I set my large fabric pots on a bed of perlite in a flood tray then fill with water. The pot wicks water and stays perfectly damp allowing for that swamp cooler effect as the water evaporates. Again, just fans, fresh air, and lots of water. Evaporative cooling works better in dry climates, but you have to kill those lights no matter what.

I keep a small army of moms in this garage without major heat issues about an hour from Death Valley, CA. This would not be possible with lights on during hottest part of day. Good luck.