Help with flowering

Artificial light

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Hi there guys a buddy of mine currently has closet grow going with a 400 watt hps with some random bag seed and for some reason opted for a lighting regime of 13 / 11. I was just wondering now that It seems time to flower (2 ft tall) what lighting regime would be optimal for flowering? Would it be turned down to 12/12 and treated like a 12/12 grow and if so is it just a feeding of bloom nutes that induces flowering? Or do the lights have to get turned down furthermore as to replicate the drop from 18/6 to 12/12? Sorry for the noob question I just couldn't find enough answers ​
 
did you veg them on 13/11 ? .... i tryed a 12/12 from seed grow that got to 1.5ft an still no buds so i simply switched lights off for 24 hours , fed them one dose of full strenth bloom feed, within 5 days they switch to flower mode :-)
 

missnu

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they will switch when they are ready...the plant knows...that is why 12/12 from seed works...I want to try 12/12 to clone but am fearful that the plants will stay their clone size and start to flower, as opposed to with a seed that will veg itself basically....they don't flower until they are mature enough to flower.....which still isn't instantly just like autoflowers seeds started on less than 16 hrs of sunlight still have to mature before they can bloom...
 

missnu

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and 13/11 and 12/12 are basically the same thing to the plant...13 hours is short enough to induce flowering...but I would go ahead and switch to 12/12 because it is kinda just lingo for flowering now...even if you flower at 11/13, 13/11, 10/14...it is all 12/12 to us...
 

BuddhaGrows

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they will switch when they are ready...the plant knows...that is why 12/12 from seed works...I want to try 12/12 to clone but am fearful that the plants will stay their clone size and start to flower, as opposed to with a seed that will veg itself basically....they don't flower until they are mature enough to flower.....which still isn't instantly just like autoflowers seeds started on less than 16 hrs of sunlight still have to mature before they can bloom...
You wanna take clones of a 12/12 from seed plant? or put a clone in 12/12 from rooting? I'm confused lol
 
12/12 from rooted clone will produce a plant 10-24" depending on strain and light used ( clf/HPS) it's SOG growing and can be very productive 1-2oz per plant with 2 per sq ft if done right will out perform any outher growing methord
 

Artificial light

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Ok guys so I went looking for nutes (not in the US unfortunately) and couldn't find anything with an NPK of 5-15-15 which I read was ideal for flowering. Clostest I got was some with 14-12-11 NPK. My question is will the addition of these nutes induce flowering even tho they are high in N. I feel they have had ample time to veg (13-11 cycle) they are about 2-3ft now they are turned down to 12-12 will they stretch much? Thanks guys any help greatly appreciated
Peace.
 
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