Indoor Autos and Light Leaks?

[rock-lobster]

Hello all, first post here, howdy!

I'm curious what you guys' thoughts are on light leaks for autos. For those of you who do 20/4, 18/6 etc, how important do you guys think it is to have absolute, total darkness during those dark hours? I understand the importance with photos but with autos it seems unnecessary due to the fact that you could give them 24/7 light anyway.

I want to get to the bottom of this before I start growing my autos, let me know what you guys think! :thumbs:

 

[TaNg]

Autos still need time to rest plus most of the resin is produced at night,so I would give them at least 4 hours a day of total darkness.

 

[agito]

^ I dont think the above is correct at all.
cant answer about light leaks they will still flower but will they yield to the max is another question

 

[TaNg]

I'm still a bit of a noob so forgive me but why do most of us grow at 20/4 not the full 24hrs?

 

[Mr Piggy]

People grow at 20/4 instead of 24/0 because a lot of people experimenting with light hours have come to the conclusion that there isn't that much increased output with 24/0 over 20/4. It's basically to save on the power bill. Some people think the plants need a few hours of rest, I have no way to confirm that. Also, I have never heard of trics being produced at night only. To my knowledge they develop in the light when the plant is growing.

As for light leaks, you can still stress an auto into herming with irregular light hours, I have. Just because they can grow under constant light doesn't mean they won't get stressed out under irregular schedules.

 

[agito]

The confusuon is light degrades thc but thc/fresin still grows in light so i can see how you got confused

 

[rock-lobster]

Thanks for your opinions guys, I'm doing 4 seeds of a strain called Supersonic Cristal Storm and 20/4 is recommended from the breeder so I guess I'll look into some lightproofing.