fortheloveofgrow
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Greetings growers!
The primary limitation in by flower room (basement, behind 2 locked doors, 4.5'w x 6.5'l x 7't, mylar walls, sealed, soundproofed, carbon-filtered, kinda proud ) is useful light cover (300w platinum LED & 1200w China LED, probably ideally about 2.5'x4.5') and access around the perimeter to maintain the dwc rig. I will likely add another LED at some point, but don't have the cash right now. Separate cab for clones and veg.
Currently running Raspberry cough (sativa), ~9wk flower. I don't think I want to veg the full 9wk flower cycle because I'd rather have more, densely packed girls come flower switch. I had been doing 24hr veg light, but think I'll switch to 18/6 to slow growth and cut energy costs (not bad, 2 125w hydrofarm cfls, work great). I've gotten good at topping to 4 primary colas and generally end up with 8-16 money colas. Ideally I'd have, say 10-15 trained (early-topped/mainlined/lst'd then lollipopped) plants in flower.
So here's the question: What are folk's opinions on how to align the flower cycle and the veg cycle? My math:
Ready to flower: Clones taken -> a week to recover pre-flip -> Flower = call it 10 weeks.
Veg: Clones rooted (been having near 100% success, but kinda slow ~15 days, which works in my favor in this scenario), topped, trained, etc... but 8 wks is a longer veg time than I think I want.
Options:
Take clones of clones halfway through (no real space for a mother in the veg cab).
Re-vegging clones off flowering plants, but don't have any experience with reveg.
Other options?
Any thoughts good people? Many thanks!
The primary limitation in by flower room (basement, behind 2 locked doors, 4.5'w x 6.5'l x 7't, mylar walls, sealed, soundproofed, carbon-filtered, kinda proud ) is useful light cover (300w platinum LED & 1200w China LED, probably ideally about 2.5'x4.5') and access around the perimeter to maintain the dwc rig. I will likely add another LED at some point, but don't have the cash right now. Separate cab for clones and veg.
Currently running Raspberry cough (sativa), ~9wk flower. I don't think I want to veg the full 9wk flower cycle because I'd rather have more, densely packed girls come flower switch. I had been doing 24hr veg light, but think I'll switch to 18/6 to slow growth and cut energy costs (not bad, 2 125w hydrofarm cfls, work great). I've gotten good at topping to 4 primary colas and generally end up with 8-16 money colas. Ideally I'd have, say 10-15 trained (early-topped/mainlined/lst'd then lollipopped) plants in flower.
So here's the question: What are folk's opinions on how to align the flower cycle and the veg cycle? My math:
Ready to flower: Clones taken -> a week to recover pre-flip -> Flower = call it 10 weeks.
Veg: Clones rooted (been having near 100% success, but kinda slow ~15 days, which works in my favor in this scenario), topped, trained, etc... but 8 wks is a longer veg time than I think I want.
Options:
Take clones of clones halfway through (no real space for a mother in the veg cab).
Re-vegging clones off flowering plants, but don't have any experience with reveg.
Other options?
Any thoughts good people? Many thanks!