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GLR-Gas Lantern Routine (12-1 lighting) grow journal- Bruce Banner

KingKush

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Another grow to show. This time with a variation in Vegetative light cycles. The Gas Lantern Routine (GLR) is the idea that if plants could restore their phytochrome levels during the night, this would interrupt the signaling to flower with short days and long nights, and keep the plants in a vegetative stage without the need for 18 hours of electrical usage.
Lets put the opinions to rest and see what happens to these 4 Bruce Banner bagseed with this technique. I just grew 4 identical sisters in the last journal so it will give me a great idea as to how the variables are affecting the grow. I also have other strains in the veg room, under the same schedule. This will be a sort of a photo journal to document the progression, and a reference for the future, hopefully putting some misnomers to rest.
A shout out to
Corso4Life
and the post Experimenting With Supplemental Light which got me thinKing of the idea even thought it has been in existence for a few years.
Nebula Haze did a brief acknowledgment of the idea HERE on the GWE main page. I pulled this from interweb image search below:
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This is the idea.
Here's the specimens

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I currently have the "day time" on for 12hrs. and the night is 5hrs off, 2hrs on, 5hrs off. It's basically a Bloom setup but with a 2 hour ON in the middle of the night. Saves 4 hours of lighting per day.
 
April 26
Still Alive
-Its been a few weeks now on the new lighting schedule and nothing is dead (the opposite in fact, things are thriving).
Two different ladies out of the foursome:



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Doing the math:
4 hours per day X 30.5 days = 122hours
122hours = 6.778 days
So I save almost a weeks worth of electricity per month, or roughly 20-25%
 
Must...resist... ^.^

I would have been happier with a side by side but beggers cant be choosers. Just asses the vegetative growth. Not the flowering stage.
 
I'll sub. I saw glr a while back and always wondered about it. Save a little electricity and battle the heat of my hids.
 
Campesino
After that Bruce Banner harvest it's been quite the space travels, lots and lots stoned moments lately I'm lucky to even get water on my plants some weeks I think we played golf 5 times last week and end up drinking so lots of cross faded evenings and late mornings.
Good stoney stuff that Bruce Banner, just got me space cadet a few weeks, too high to take pics of the party going on haha
 
Hey KingKush,, yes, this is nice. You like to hit the round ball, huh, me too. Dang near every day, !!!
Good luck with your grow.
 
May 7
Things are still alive and well but I perceive a reduction in potential growth and overall leaf mass. This is not making them grow any faster, but probably slower.

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This experiment has multiple modes. The first is this journal with the four Bruce Banner; should be similar and familiar with the last grow I just completed.
Secondly, In the background I received some more Pre98 Bubba clones from my sensei and left 2 in the veg room a few weeks ago to be sort of the 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for this lighting routine. I'm in tune with these clones they are our staple crop. They are healthy and fine, just slow.

Thirdly, I somehow 'lost' a bean I was trying to germinate a few months ago and ended up with two solo cups full of dirt that never sprouted anything.I tried using the cup with soil for a clone so I watered it and stuck a cutting in it to see what would happen. Well.... a seedling emerged, what a surprise! So this seedling has been under the 12-1 lighting it's whole life. It's alive and growing.

-Everything is healthy and in veg mode
-Seems like a slow grow
-Not fast
-Will be happy to end the experiment soon

I've tried all the light cycles for veg so far and I think this is as low as you can go before bad things start to happen. These plants like 16-20 hours of light and that is where they grow the best. At least my photoperiod strains do, and I'll be happy when these ladies make it to the bloom room and I can revert my timer back to 18/6, I don't plan on messing with this again anytime soon.
 
Chefbjy
Oh I would say it is working just fine, plants are still upright and taking water. Experiments like this help provide raw data that I can actually utilize to make better decisions. Too much mis-information out there. Here is a great example of "well it's not completely bogus but there are better ways"
Could still be too early to draw conclusions. When I need them in the Bloom Room I will have a better idea.
 
That's it stay positive. I'm glad you are providing a contribution to the data. A side by side would have been ideal. But still would like to hear your thoughts and notes.
 
I have to say that I'm not particularly surprised by this report. Well, a little surprised you got a volunteer!, But the Gas lamp method just didn't seem right... Less Light = Less Energy = less growth. I think it is difficult to avoid the laws of physics!
Thanks for doing it though! A feather in your cap for running the test :)
 
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