This is probably a dumb question, but I've searched the forum and I think it's so stupid a question that I'm probably the first person to ask it.

Do all all plants require a 12/12 light cycle to produce fruit or veg?

I'd like to grow some veggies indoors in a tent, but all I've ever grown has been canna indoors or veggies outdoors, never veggies indoors. I want to do a bunch of different cucumbers to make pickles out of it, and ideally I'd love you to tell me that they're fine under 24/0.

Cheers in advance,

GN
- percy thrower I ain't

I think it probably depends on the time of year they would usually be ready to harvest

You should be able to work out the lighting schedule they need based on that.

I think that you need to look at each plant you want to grow. If photoperiod is the trigger they differ between plant to plant A lot of plant will flower/fruit at a certain age, some with soil temp Looking at day length, planting times etc when they are planted outside will help fuigure out what they need

Things like Toms and chillies do well under a good old Canna veg cycle I think

As you can see, I'm not sure

Thanks for the input. Did a little more searching and found this on YouTube:



In the comments section the OP says "lots of light, 16+ hours per day", which is music to my ears. 24/0 or 20/4 here I come

Thanks again

GN

Be dead interested to see how they turn out GN, my little lad loves cucumbers and I'm tempted to grow a couple indoors if its viable...might even get a tent for it

Keep us posted squire

Heya , expensive veg , good luck .

Yea won't it be well expensive?

I suppose things fruit at different times throughout the year so you'll just have to look at the daylight hours of the month that fruiting begins for whatever it is you want to grow, as someone has already said!

I guess so, although I'll probably be using CFLs or regular fluoros at first to see if it can be done without burning HIDs and pushing the cost up.

The only other thing to consider is the practicalities - there seem to be two main types: vine and surface grown. Surface grown seem to be a scrog dream but takes a lot of horizontal space, and the vine grown ones which seem more tent/indoor friendly are very vertical and climby. I can see why they're really not geared for indoors. Gonna give it a go anyway Will let you know how it goes - if not I'll go buy some farmers market ones to pickle, but that seems like a fail imo.

GN

Worth trying it with 125W enviros.

Most plantings need 12-14 hours of light to produce enough food for strong stems and leaves.
Otherwise they get a little leggy and spindly, which is not a good sign in the gardening arena.
Fortunately, root crops and leaf producing crops need less direct sunlight.

One good reason to grow other stuff than Cannabis is that we can tell them
that the lights and stuff is for vegetables. Once someones sees that your growing
something other than cannabis they'll leave you alone and not question your
reason for buying gardening stuff again.

cant go wrong with 18/24 veg and 12/24 bloom. All plants i believe need time out of light to recover

Good question mate,

This year I grouped early veg seedlings in with the additional light I was giving to get the girls moving. Having said that I don't have loads of HPS watts I mainly used a sort of light hood with CFL's. It keeps the seedlings ticking along but will never replace the power and colours of the sun.

Love to share what you find out, perhaps you should google commercial growing and see what the big boys do, good luck.

JOM