New Grower Lady with a light leak question?

And one more thing, Autos are just as susceptible to problems with light leaks as photos are. Just because they can take a much longer light period and flower doesn't mean they can take a sudden alteration of that light period mid flower. I have had issues with autos because of a light leak before.
 
And one more thing, Autos are just as susceptible to problems with light leaks as photos are. Just because they can take a much longer light period and flower doesn't mean they can take a sudden alteration of that light period mid flower. I have had issues with autos because of a light leak before.

Unless you run 24/0, I imagine. ;)
 
Well, there's a lot of factors that go into light leaks being bad. As always it's not that simple. Indoors, a light leak can be a horrible thing. Inside plants are coddled and haven't build up strength like outdoor plants have. Outdoor plants face greater temperature fluctuations, light exposure of leaks from the beginning of their life to the end, and the outdoor girls get strengthened by winds.

It's also a matter of lifelong exposure to the light "leaks" that they face. An outdoor plant is exposed to this from the beginning. It spent it's whole life exposed to the moon, street lamp, stars, ect, so it's used to it and it's a part of it's routine. An indoor plant has a very specific light schedule and if you suddenly interrupt that with a leak at some point in it's life it will throw it off.

I have also had street lamps fuck with my outdoor plants. Last year my asshole drunk neighbor a few houses down decided to put in a flood light and leave it on all night. This is fine in a rural setting but a huge fuck you in a city. The light caused a significant delay in flowering for my backyard girls and as a result they went way longer than they should have and drug on into mold season. I also ended up with a few seeds in my buds somehow, most likely that fucking light. That isn't the first year that a light has fucked up my plants either.

So yeah, circumstance depending a light leak can be a real pain in the ass. That's why all the best growers and pro setups are light sealed, it's not a gimmick or a scape goat.

thanks soo much mr.piggy! i have no doubt that a light such as a floodlight would def have an ill effect on your plants but my concern is more with small light leaks such as the light from under a grow room door or a crack in a cabnit. many times on forums growers will post issues with sick plants or hermied plants and it seems that alot of the time it gets chaulked to light leaks and not nute issues or other factors.
 
Mr Pigg knows of what he speaks. It's not a myth about light leaks, they suck. Indoor plants especially clones are very tempermental to lots of things. I've had a little leak in the past only affecting about 2 plants out of 128 in the flowering room and they hermed. I fixed that leak. Peace...
 
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