If the air pot is too small, wouldn’t the interior still end up clogged with new root growth? I understand it’s way better than the ones I’m paying too much money for (thanks) , but don’t you still have to pay attention to pot size?
OK I agree with that @pigSquishy but where getting off track here just a tad… He’s just trying to jump strart into flower and I think we all went a little poverbpard…lol
But don’t get !e wrong. This is all good info.
Will.,
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Sure you can go from a 1 to a 10 gallon
…so you’re in for the long Florida season ?
Eight or nine months you’ll have a tree ! 
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Lol! 4 years ago I lived on the back side of 10 wooded acres. 1000 of lumber property behind me. I had three that I named my giants from some good bag seed. 12’ tall!
Lanky as hell but really good stone. Day or night use, good for either. Had I had the information I have now…they better legalize this year!
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Yup, that’s what I’m thinking.
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There it is. I have been looking for this post. I’m about to start flowing and I plan to start the long dark period. Are there any worries involved in leaving the lights out for that long ? Their leaves tend to relax or droop like they need water when the lights are out , should I worry about mold or some other headache during this time.
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Very true.
That would be great.
I would be interested in your findings, both above and below the soil once you are done.
On your fertilizer, being side by side, are they in containers? If in a soil bed, were you able to isolate the root zones so there wouldn’t be cross contamination? Just curious as the results may help me decide on a replacement for MG. Ditching their soil, may as well ditch their nutes as well.
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Dark period helping with roots would maybe explain partly why girls were slow going while waiting for roots to grow. They were on for 24 hours day. When I switched to 20 then 18 I really saw excellerated root growth then the beautiful canopy started growing fast. Truly my recent experience would prove that root theory true.
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It is true that these odd light cycles are used to manipulate the P_FR and P_R hormones that regulate flowering.
I mostly use these techniques if they are convenient for me, over any noticeable significant improvement in the speed in transitioning to flower.
As I might be running a flower room that is continuously on a 12/12 or 11/13 – light/dark cycle, and running a veg room that is constantly on 18/6, or maybe even on 24/0, and again – more for convenience or power savings than any significant advantage, one way or the other, for veg speed growth or root growth, and I will have many plants at various stages of growth in each room, and so for the most part I don’t mess with changing the light cycles, I just move the plant into the next room it needs to go into.
~MacG
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The 36 hour dark period at the end was just something I had read somewhere. It didn’t seem stressful so I was going to try it…After reading MacG say it can influence flowering and did not say resin at all, and Latewood not having anything positive to say, I will just continue normally until harvest day.
Here is some more of my thoughts on this from similar questions:
Happy growing,
MacG
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Thank you MacGyverStoner for the mental peek into your inner sanctum. That info will surely enhance my know-how.
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@garrigan62, well, the time has come for me to contemplate cloning. You mentioned earlier in this topic that you’d help me. So here’s my line of questions. The girls are now half way through their 36 hour stent in darkness. When should I take clones to prepare for the next crop. All I have now is a shelf with a 4’ utility light. (Floresant tubes ). I have rooted clones before, not seriously but just to try and I got roots in promix and floating them in bubbling water with squares of styrofoam egg carton with a slit. I have read about how to cut and the possibly of air bubbles after cutting the clone and know of rooting hormones . That is the extent of my cloning knowledge. Thank you.
This would make sense, and as I said here:
~MacG
Root them exactly the same way as before, but with a more serious attitude this time and you should be fine
I’m getting amazing clones using something called ‘Takeroot’ powder (from Amazon) for about 5 bucks! I’ve used gels for ever without even close to these results
This is the best cloning product I’ve ever used, I left my propagation mat accidentally unplugged for days and days once and everything still rooted in about 7 days! Let the tray dry out and cooked them to the point where the roots were brown and they still rooted…! 
-good luck
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