there are a lot of plants that will grow to 6ft in one growing season. it all depends on your setup lights & nutrients. if you top and lst you can get some monsters and not have to worry about hermaphrodite plants.
I know what topping is, but not sure about lst. Can you please explain.
I also have a new and involved question for my first grow.
I bought 2 books yesterday including one called "Buds for Less" claiming you an grow 8oz or bud for under $100. It's a pretty informative book that takes you through a 3 plant grow from start to end day by day. He started with 1 Mango seedling and 2 Blue Dot clones and if the book isn't B.S. he got 8 oz. of bud cured after only 75 days. But I'm not sure about the lights he used.
In the book he shows you how to build a light set up for 3 plants. The set up is 3 light fixtures each mounted to their own piece of wood. The 3 pieces of wood are attatched to each other with a thin sheet of metal so you can adjust the angle of the lights, so there's one overhead light and two lights angled down at a 45 degree angle. I like the basic design but I'll improve on it so the side lights are at a 90 degree angle and more adjustable.
The lights he used is what I'm not sure of. He started with three 42 watt CFLs (compact flourescent bulbs). CFLs are those small spiral flourescents that are the basic size and shape of a standard bulb. He states in the book that each light has an output of 2700 lumens.
On day 4 the third set of leaves arrived and the temp dipped below 70, so he put a splitter on each of the light sockets and doubled the ammount of light. The lights are and have been kept 3 inces from the plant thus far. Around day 9 the lights were moved as close to the plant as possible without touching it.
On Day 16 the plants are forced into their flowering stage. The plants aren't mature yet, they're about 1.5ft and bushy as heck, the leaves are hanging over the edge of the pot. The reasons given for forcing the plants into flowering early..... 1. The CFLs can't maintain a healthy plant larger than 20 inces.
2. When a plant is forced to flower early it more than quadruples in size during the flowering stage.
The plants were harvested on day 68 and curing was complets on day 75
The yield was 3oz of Mango and 5oz of Blue Dot
I have so many questions it's crazy, but the number one question is if growing this way would sacrifice quality? Can anyone enlighten me?
