@Dr. Who comes across as a cranky old guy, but he means well lol. And don't let him fool ya, I've caught him counting days a few times lol. I know I only count to reference how long it took to finish, and not when it will. As doc said, that's up to the plant. I learned pretty quickly that the breeders ETF (estimated time of finish) is not typically very accurate. My outdoor grows are a 50/50 Mother Nature/time decision as to the finish.
I'm always doing stupid shit, that's my smoking area as well so when I leave I'm high....bad stuff happens when I'm high, I've left lights off, heat off, extraction off lol. If there is a way to stress em, ya I've done it lol.No seed, 4 weeks veg then to flower and allow 14 days for flower to initiate.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/seedlings.957175/
I just fucked my first flowering plants as temps were 10°c on lights out like a freaking noob. Still dialling hopefully connect soon. Just turned the heating up, next ones into flowwer in a week this time no noobie mistakes
Tell me about it, like literally i fix one thing and forget about another, been so busy getting veg set up i lapsed of flowering, veg tent get way shorter dark cycle everything seemed sweet but now damn and were waiting to start flowering again.
How about forget to pH up the water and feed soil water pHd at 5.0ish. I should be between 6-6.5... yikes. Well plants didn’t seem to mind. I followed up with more water with the correct pH and that may have helped lol...Tell me about it, like literally i fix one thing and forget about another, been so busy getting veg set up i lapsed of flowering, veg tent get way shorter dark cycle everything seemed sweet but now damn and were waiting to start flowering again.
Ill get this right one day
My tap water is ph 8 and has chlorine in, its fine in soil my plants dont care. Science wise it is such a weak buffer it dosent matter or so i believe. Soil shoukdnt need ph'ing and all that, some do a lot dont, mainly the problem is somthing else.
Yeah i wasn’t too worried but a little worried as I was more mad at making the mistake because I was rushing to water the plants before my parents came over to my house and I didn’t want them to smell the plants from having the grow box open...lolMy tap water is ph 8 and has chlorine in, its fine in soil my plants dont care. Science wise it is such a weak buffer it dosent matter or so i believe. Soil shoukdnt need ph'ing and all that, some do a lot dont, mainly the problem is somthing else.
Oh yep was saying in another thread I’ve pulled 4 plants the past month and a half from me testing and fucking shit up. Lmao...I now feel I have at least the seedling and veg stage down pat and can get them to nice size, multiple tops and healthy. Flowering stage is another beast to tackle...Ive always tried a test plant, just try one no ph'ing, youll answer a lot of questions and see what others are saying
The question was answered nicely 18 months ago. When a thread's brought back from the dead just for arguments sake and it starts with HAHAHAHA then follow it up with a complete contradiction you might get a "brash" response
Keep notes - in detail, for every run.
Environmental differences are a BIG factor in differing finish times...
Well yes that too lol.
Sorry but no cannabis plants flower in 3 weeks where are you getting this information?Retorical question becasue each variation is diffrent. If you "lock in" various flowering times IE so many days from start of 12/12 etc.... it depends on what you want...you can do it so many ways , like lets say you need to kind of "rush" becasue you need it now kind of you could always do lets say 8 ON/16 OFF and get some real nice results maybe not as big as 12/12 but how about 2 to 3 weeks earlier..if you can turn a crop around that much quicker you can offset the loss in 30% yield...all the old timers know what a mature plant looks like ...bottom leaves all yellowed and the buds basically almost half way dried ..thats what most look for....I say go 4 ON / 20 OFF and they will be ready in 3 weeks flat after veggin ...also helps to have a shitload of watts too
Still an interesting thread. I think a lot of seed company's deliberately kept on with the pistil time frame since it made longer runners look shorter and more appealing to newbs. At-least that's my conspiracy theory on it given the U-turn eagerness to point out strains that only took ''8 weeks from flip''. Community wise, I dare say some ego flexing of growers exists in that stating going from pistils makes a person look more seasoned. Not a dig at anybody in particular, I'm sure a lot state it simply because it's right (to a point).
I would tend to agree it's a lot more of a marketing thing than anything else. Why would someone grow a strain that is marketed to finish in 12 weeks when they can get 1 that says done in 8 weeks. What I feel it comes down to is trail and error with educated guesses until you can actually see and sample the harvest. But I also use clones and grow inside so im sure it's different for others. Again im no expert but that's just been my experience. The hardest part isn't the grow it's knowing when it's done.
I did have a pheno that would finish 7 weeks from flip but it yielded less. Had it yielded the same per run as the others it would have allowed an extra free cycle every other year. But that isn't all it's cracked up to be, you'd have to run the same shit all the time unless you got into staggered harvests.