Myth busting part 2. 24h scedule for plants

Ofc you can grow 24/0 rather silly to suggest otherwise. But it's certainly not efficent or stress free. Cannabis plants in nature do not get to decide when it rains, when it storms, it's always ready for whatever, but one thing I've noticed more and more growing indoors is that she is a creature of habit. The better you can synchronize her "processes" the better she responds, regimented, scheduled, efficent. When you ask her to perform 24 hours shifts with no rest period, she will juggle everything all at once, photosynthesis and cellular respiration. What's optimal for photosynthesis is not always optimal for cellular respiration. plant metabolic pathways undergo significant daily shifts, and while daytime is for photosynthesis, the nighttime is a critical period for processing and synthesizing compounds, including antioxidants, as the circadian clock orchestrates these diurnal changes to support growth and repair in the absence of light. A juggler can juggle 10 balls for 24 hours with great stress. A juggler will be far more efficent at juggling 5 balls each for 12 hours. Photosynthesis primarily requires optimal light intensity, temperature, and sufficient carbon dioxide, while cellular respiration is primarily influenced by temperature, oxygen availability, and the presence of sugars from photosynthesis. Light is a specific requirement for photosynthesis but not for respiration. High temperatures can be optimal for photosynthesis in some plants but lead to excessive respiration, damaging growth. 24/0 in last couple weeks will most certainly leave your plant with hardly any anxtoxidants in the trichomes. Most likely accelerated degredation of thc to boot.

You know they're not cannabis plants..........right? Might be time to lay off the bong for a while..........

Icarus.

And did you get more out of that than keeping it at a somewhat natural timing? What's the Point?

they can survive its just not ideal. plants don't have a 24hr on light source that I am aware off. maybe in the arctic circle? but they have adapted to it there, the things we are growing are not from that region. Kinda how autofloweres evolved to flower on their own timeline because of the conditions of their environment. The goal is to mimic the natural conditions it would grow in. Or that's my view on it. Its also can be a waste of hydro to grow 24/7. DLI has a role to play too. It a massive questions that will not be answered fully by your two plants or anyone on this site. This question is just rage baiting organioman and seems pointless.

From a science perspective, the two species being subjected to this experiment are separate and together allow your to dra no conclusions or else we would all be math and science gods if n=2 was rigor. The 24 hour light being improper for cannabis is really three fold. Firstly, the metabolic cost of doing this is just (excuse the language) dumb for cannabis...your hormones become off, water and sugar use changes, and these things slowly accumulate like little errors in an old car until you either sell the car (harvest) or break down on the side of the road (notice all the harm accumulating to an extent you can't ignore it any longer). Second, the same way you run up silly costs during the day time...you have that happening on things that do not occur at night. For example, when photons rupture cuticles when do they get repaired if there is infinite photons raining down and no dark period set aside for the copious amounts of daily repairs required? Third, not only does it seem mean in spirit to me to the plant but it seems mean to yourself (wallet-wise). Cannabis is a really tough plant. They can go through a lot, the question is are you doing it to make the flower better? To treat the plant better? Or because ruderalis is your go-to-medicine? I'd point you to humans. A human can go without sleep for weeks. Every daily period that sleep is forgone, you skip a cleansing cycle where fluid from the spine is used to flush the wastes from the brain. Everyone has stayed up for all night once or twice, right? Well, eventually if you forego that sleep process long enough you can run a deficit to the point where you will die from accumulation not being removed. Full stop, no way to around it. Does the first fact negate the second, or have any implication whatsoever related to the severity of the second? One is trivial in the face of the other.