col.forbin

...withoutbecoming hermies? The stars and the moon are usually bright enoughto where u can see, but when I tell someone how there is a dim crack of light getting into my flowering room during darkness, im not I have no chance and will get hermies. This makes no F^#^*(# sense to me....will someone be kind enough to explain this?

Allglad

I am not able to explain the darkness part rignt now. as far as hermies go I can explain that there is no way to be absolutely sure a 420 wont hermie.

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komet

Plants do not require 100% darkness...its just desirable for producing stickier, meatier buds indoors. The darker, the better.

During time immemorial, plants have developed to respond to the UV range that the moon puts out when reflecting the Sun's light.

Well, I could be wrong, but that is how I think of it.

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your eye and a plant's cell are completely different receptors; one designed for visual sight another designed for photosynthesis (mainly).

the moon and stars shine at a maximum of 1Lux. this is not enough to trigger a response in the plant.

a greater amount could delay or halt flower.

-iDub

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whazzup

ihmo a plant is quite blind . The amount of light where we can still see outside are way too low for any photosynthesis. Our eyes are remarkebly well adapted for those enormous differences.
A full moon is 0.27 lux, a bright sunny day in the sun more than 100,000 lux.

There are more factors btw that drive the plant, such as the Circadian rhythms. Here's a good article about that: COORDINATING PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY: CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS

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stoney-trees

This sounds like a good answer.

I always thought perhaps the moons light couldnt be picked up by the plant. Sort of how green lights are suppose to work.

Think Im going with whazzup's answer now. lol

PiGMaN

Street lighting must fuck up some of the nieghborhoods local flora.

Stonewallace

in the cervantes "horticultural bible" there's a picture of a plant outside in a city at night and the dark half is flowering and the other half is exposed to a street light and there's no flowers on it. It's a cool picture anyway

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col.forbin

Good point. BTW, the light getting in is from morning light getting in the the vents in my A/C window unit. I have the rest of the window completely covered in B&W Poly. Any more comments or suggestions? Thanks everyone

smokeybandit

Stonewallace, yes your correct, i have that book with tht picture, its crazy how delayed one side is compared to the other on the same plant!

I ve always wondered about the moon too, some nights when its a full moon it seems very bright outside especially in the winter! , i can walk around without a flaslight and see everything, its great, but then agian, i live in a remote area, absolutley no light pollution at all, as i tell my friends, i live in a million star home, not a 5 star, and they say what do you mean, and i tell them, look up at the sky, and then they get it.