Out of curiosity, how are you containing the light for all your plants out in the open? You want to contain any light leaks during lights out. Light leaks will cause your plants to turn hermaphrodite, which they'll also do if they're stressed too much. Basically, the plants try to pollinate themselves, to produce seeds, in a last ditch effort to save it's species. You want complete, uninterrupted, total blackout periods for your plants, especially during flower.
Also something to watch out for, with your plants like that, are damaging bugs. You'll want to take some protective measures to try and avoid this. I spray insecticide around any opening to the grow room. You also want to get in the habit of checking for problems, daily. Bugs can do enormous damage, or death, in a very short period of time. Get yourself familiar with critters, how to identify, eradicate, and protect your plants. Here's a great guide for plant problems, and how to correct them...
GrowWeedEasy Plant Problems
Habits to get into:
- Check your plants daily
- Look under leaves, as this is where lots of bugs, like spider mites, like to live and eat your plants
- Get a jewelers microscope (see below) as many of the bugs are very small, and cant always be seen with the naked eye
- Have Neem oil spray and pyrethrum-based bug spray on-hand. You want to have these so that you can start treating your plants as soon as you discover pests. Spider mites are the WORST! They will destroy your entire crop! If you find these, take immediate action!
- Absolutely do not go from an outside garden, or yard in general, to where your plants are. This is a surefire way to bring bugs, especially mites, into your grow area. Wash up, change your clothes, use a shop compressor to give yourself an air bath, outside, etc...
I use two different jewelers microscopes, a
30x and a
120x. The 30x is really easy to pick up and see what you're looking for. I use the 120x for looking at trichomes to determine when to harvest.
This might seem like a lot of daily work, but once you get into the habit of checking your plants, you'll find that it just takes a minute or so. Its a small effort, to prevent catastrophes.
Hope this helps