Lighting What's the best lighting cycle for autos - 24/0, 20/4 or 18/6

[sniper]

What size pots?

 

[White Punk on Dope]

2.2 gal air pots #3. My super soil mix. 24/0 lighting.
Produced a Sugar Mango 1.8, 2x Moham Ram 2.2 & 2.5.
Amnesia-looking good----2.0
Budda will finish in a few days. Its getting fat.
I am at 8.5 with 1 to go.

I love this kind of gardening.

 

[PortlandSmoke]

Ive read multiple places 24/0 yeilds 5% more. I know alot of people say that it makes sense for them to have a rest cause everything needs a rest. But in my opinion, they don't need a rest because they get thier energy from the sun, we rest because we need time to regain our energy. Plants don't sleep so why would they need a rest when they can continuously gather energy in a indoor growing enviorment.

Just my 2¢. Everybody has their own opinions and choices to make. Try different things and find one you like. I will be trying 20/4 my next grow. However I will always start my plants 24/0 until they show sex.

This is pretty much where I land on it. 24/0 always seem to have higher yields.


Nothing I'm doing is natural, so I've never worried about that.... I mean....

I'm growing indoors, in water, under LED's, with bottled "food" for my ladies. Why worry about natural at this point?

 

[bubblekarma]

I'm currently doing 19 hours on / 5 hours off. No particular reason why, just thought I'd use the half way point between the 20/4 and 18/6.

Me too bro! I don't see many people running 19/5, but that's what I run at. Seemed to worked exceptionally well my last grow.

 

[White Punk on Dope]

The Budda weighed in at 2.6 dry, run at 24/7.
Just over 11 zips for 5 plants grown in air pots.
Damm fun gardening with these results.

 

[F.N.]

24 hours a day for the whole grow since they popped the soil. Auto's do not need a rest IMO they need light and lots of her to grow huge fat autos. Where rudi's grow do they not get 24 hours of light?

 

[AnanKofan]

How about 16/8 light cycle for auto? Is there any grow with that cycle on ANF?

 

[eggmansky]

My, My, My.......
This was ONE WILD THREAD!!! running my first grow 24/0. After this harvest, I'll go to 20/4. As soon as I can get my exhaust fan's reostat to operate on a timer!

 

[Silent-Grower]

Probably there is no perfect light cycle, from my experience there's no difference between +/- 2 or 3 hours more or less.
But lets say 20/4 is some standard recommended by seed companies.

 

[Joedirt]

Yeah SG you got it!
autos just grow and grow no matter what you do.