Need advice on what to do if your growing indoors and the power goes out during the flowering cycle and the lights should be on? Have electronic timers with battery backup. How harmful is this to my plants? What can be done to try to save them??
Go to home depot and get a nice backup generator. The most simple option, of course theres solar. Soar panels to recharge backup batteries is the best option of course- rv supply places have inverters that will run like 4000 watts or more. pricy though- backup gen is a few hundred- start messing with solar inverters its a couple grand.
The flowering cycle is dependent upon 12 hours of continuous DARKNESS, not light. As long as the night remains uninterrupted, occassional dark periods during the light cycle won't hurt. Sometimes a dark cloud passes in front of the sun. ------- after hurricane charley, the growers plants (nearly a month into flowering) survived 3 days of continuous darkness without overt bad effects. They began dying on the 4th day, with some lasting nearly a week.
