Have a grasp of DLI but does anyone know if plants have a life light integral. I guess you would say auto flowers kind of do, but I'm talking about ph

nope, not at all.... DLI is exactly what it says it is, the area under a curve.......in other words, there are an infinite number of ways to deliver that DLI. So that is like me asking 'wondering if running a high square foot house has enough bathrooms' and those things are going to be linked, but there is no direct implication dawg. now DLI delivery is a different story, and is where both time and intensity come into the picture. this is where hormones can get you into foxtailing where you may not have without that photoperiod stress. As far as finishing early, the '6/18 is the answer' is funny. Photoperiodism in cannabis is largely unstudied, with countless examples of this to point to. From a botany perspective, the dark period length is critical for daily cycles which if not interrupted will trigger flower. So forget the 'do a raindance' 'make it cold bro bro' or 'turn the lights of for 3.4854298560425724 days dude bro'....simply alter the photoperiod, EXACTLY like the plant would be experiencing in the end of the season. That is how you decrease flowering period. The costs you pay for that depends on how you steer your hormones and how you manage your DLI delivery

6/18 the answer for fast maturing

More light/high DLI does not mean finishing faster to any noticable degree...........however, not enough light will delay development. Pl;ant growth is controlled by genetics and a plants' metabolism, which can only grow so fast.........it can't go into "hyper growth". "Foxtailing" can be prevented to a certain degree by changing from 12/12 to 11.5/12.5 then 11/13 in the final 2-3 weeks..........it seems some strains need a decreasing daylength to signal them to stop pushing out new growth.

You can always write out your questions in detail is a note app. then screenshot it and upload the screen shot to the questions part of this site for a more in depth ask. Plants have a time line they follow much like humans. the more you feed us the bigger we grow but it does not make us more mature any faster, It can put stress on our organs and kill us from being fat. Light can stress a plant as well. They can adapt to high DLI but it does not make em finish faster, at least this is my view on it. I could be wrong. GreenAF rases some good points as well. Its not just DLI its a buch of things and whatever the part is that is lacking with be that bottle neck. Extra DLI over 40 need more CO2 added into the grow. so unless your supplying more CO2, its wasted energy and costing you more then it needs to. Dr.Brucebugbee has some nice you tube videos explaining DLI. Goes over their tests and findings of what the cannabis plant can handle in terms of DLI as well.