got a few questions,

yellowpackTOPman said:

hey, i was here wondering what is the average time a plant should be vegged for, and about how long do the plants need till they can be put into flowering? basically what is the average veg time (how many weeks) for plants, and how many weeks is there before flowering should be introduced

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yellowpackTOPman said:

sorry guys, i thought the community was a place for advice, rather than using google, i like to ask real life people who have experience and its seems more assuring than to just a typical google search, if your going to tell me to just use google then what for have the community for grow advice, and blowincherrypie i forgot to utilize this link for all my needs

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yellowpackTOPman said:

sorry guys, i thought the community was a place for advice, rather than using google, i like to ask real life people who have experience and its seems more assuring than to just a typical google search, if your going to tell me to just use google then what for have the community for grow advice, and blowincherrypie i forgot to utilize this link for all my needs

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mr2shim said:

You can veg them 24/0 just fine. 18/6 works and so does 16/8. It all comes down to personal preference. Vegging plants don't need darkness. Flowering plants do.

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hereshegrows said:

Personally, I use 24h light when in veg because it helps me control the temperature of my room. It gets too cool at night and I'd rather not place a heater in the room.

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slightlytoasted said:

I must disagree. Respectfully of course, but the plants always need darkness. Alot of really important growth is done during the dark phase. Dont believe me? Set up a night vision camera in your room at night. Am i saying it cant be done without darkness? of course not. But i believe that having a dark phase, even for 4hrs will give the plant its most potential for vigorous growth.


This is an outstanding reason to adjust your lighting. If you need to control your environment, by all means, do what you must to take care of your girls!

Realistically tho, how much of a difference does it all make in the long run? The possibility of a harvest a few days early? why would you spend more on electricity if the benefits are so slight?

On a different note, and to answer the OP's original question, Jorge Cervantes' Medical Growers Bible states that the hormone levels in a plant started from seed will be adequate for flowering after the 6th week of veg. Any clones taken will keep the same age as the mother it was taken from and can be flowered as soon as it's rooted. Again this isn't the only way it can be done as I've seen many growers go 12/12 from clone, even seed! All up to you.

I like curvy girls so i veg mine 8weeks or more.

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slightlytoasted said:

I must disagree. Respectfully of course, but the plants always need darkness. Alot of really important growth is done during the dark phase. Dont believe me? Set up a night vision camera in your room at night. Am i saying it cant be done without darkness? of course not. But i believe that having a dark phase, even for 4hrs will give the plant its most potential for vigorous growth.

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One way in which plants are categorized is by the way they gather and handle carbon dioxide. Cannabis is a C3 plant. It uses the CO2 it gathers during the light period, when it is photosynthesizing. Plants designated C4 also gather CO2 during the dark period for use during the light period. Many C3 plants, including cannabis, do not need a rest period. They continue to photosynthesize as long as they are receiving light.

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Photosynthesis is the process by which plants turn sunlight into food. Food that is created by this photosynthesis is used by the plant to add more tissue to itself, whether rit be more leaves, flowers, or fruits. Without the process of photosynthesis, plant growth would not occur, and eventually the plant would not only stop growing, but stop living.

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The majority of photosynthesis occurs with the help of the chemical chlorophyll, which is found in special cells within the leaves known as chloroplasts. The visible light that hits the earth does so at different wavelengths. The different wavelengths correspond to different colors (there are seven, and can be seen within a rainbow). Chlorophyll is also what is responsible for making the leaves green and they use mostly wavelengths of light that are red. Leaves also possess pigments other than chlorophyll that are present so that the plant can make use of a greater range of visible light wavelengths.

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The photosynthetic process occurs most readily when the sunlight available to the plant is the greatest. This is why plants in the tropics grow so large. They are near the equator where the sunlight is directly overhead much of the year. However, photosynthesis can occur in the dark. It does not occur as rapidly as during the daylight, but it is possible. If this were not the case, plants would shut down entirely every night when the sun went down.Therefore, the periodic darkness of nighttime does not affect plant growth very much. In areas of the world, like Alaska, that experience seasonal increases in the length of daylight photosynthesis does make plants grow very large. Although Alaskan vegetable gardens are filled with plants that do well with cool temperatures and a short growing season (turnips and cabbage, for example), they tend to grow very large. This is because the sunlight hitting the gardens can do so for up to 20 hours a day.

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