What do you suggest?

[TishWish]

Due to an electrical outage today, the plants got a little light and had been in flowering mode for week tomorrow. We also purchased a dehumidifier and realized today that puts out lights on the machine itself. We have covered them with tape but a little light still leaks. I'm wondering if starting over with the flowering routine and giving them 36 hours of darkness. My question is, is this the right thing to do? And will the light leakage from the dehumidifier screw up my plants?

 

[Tersky]

Not sure i understand what you are having an issue with. Are you saying the outage caused the lights to turn on during the dark period of flowering plant? Not sure how that works. Are the plants re-veging? What do you mean start over with flower? Unless they are in veg state you cant start over in flower. Once flowering starts the clock is ticking until harvest UNLESS the plant re-vegges. If you have no signs of re veg i would just cover the dehumidifier lights with black tape and let them flower. Other wise to start over the flower routine would cost you 2-4 weeks as you would have to put them back in veg for a week or two then flip them back to flower. Plus the plant would be growing bigger in this time so unless you have a really big tent or are growing outside then you could run into issues.

Last point. I never turn the lights off more than 12 hrs during a grow at any time. Light is food for plants and you save maybe a couple days in theory (though i never experienced that when i tried it). IMO not worth the risk of stressing the plant.

 

[TishWish]

Thank you - with your info, we've decided to go forward. Cheers!

 

[Rwise]

My dehumidifier has green LEDs which is not harmful as I have read, if another colour, cover..
As to light leakage during dark ours, we dont like it, but all you can do is move forward, if only once it should not hurt but could be strain dependent on that.