Planting clones early(Late March-late April), preventing flower advice?.

Hi everyone

I'm planning to plant early next season while the daylight hours are around 13 hours with clones.
What light cycle would you recommend? I was thinking 14.5/9.5 to eliminate any chance of pre flower.

I'm in the southern hemisphere so I'll be looking to plant early October(April for N. hemisphere).

Also what's the lowest light cycle to veg plants indoors without veg?.

Any advice will be much appreciated, really don't want anymore pre flowering plants again.

Cheers,
Crazykiwi.

im listening in here to bro cos as much as ive done outdoor and prob more indoor grows ive neve started inside and continued outside...im always thinking bout and watching growers who do this successfully

Hey man, I've done a bit of experimenting with this and imo early October is too early for clones. Having a shorter light cycle may help but I'm not convinced. Perhaps you'd have more luck with sativa Dom strains that need much shorter days/longer nights to trigger flowering?

i did 14/10 this season with my master chief and whacked her outside late oct/early dec.

this will help
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html

heres an old pic from last month

I've heard of growers successfully planting clones late September and even earlier!

I know planting seeds in early spring is easy, this year I started some seeds late September and planted 2/11/14.

Really want to grow some absolute monsters next season. I was thinking Cotton Candy and maybe Panama or Malawi again but super early this time.

crazykiwi420 said:

I've heard of growers successfully planting clones late September and even earlier!

I know planting seeds in early spring is easy, this year I started some seeds late September and planted 2/11/14.

Really want to grow some absolute monsters next season. I was thinking Cotton Candy and maybe Panama or Malawi again but super early this time.

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Yeah I've also heard from growers about plants(clones) going out early and being outgrown by plants that were put out later. I reckon the only way you'll get them massive will be a longer veg time inside. Personally, I wouldn't want to put them out any earlier than late October, but what do I know?

Ed Rosenthal says that on average most girls start flowering in 14 hrs of light, not meaning they are budding but just its heading that way. So I'd wait until 14.5 at least because your gaining a minute or 2 everyday at that point.
I am in the northern hemisphere, I am wanting to try a large clone out when my local temps don't dip below 50's at night which will still be in the 13 hour range. I want to buy some decent solar powered path lights and just surround it with them hanging and everything, hoping it'll keep 'em from flowering. Dunno but if it works it'll hopefully a freaking beast when flowering does come.

Those solar path lights aren't going to keep them vegging. Early flowering indica leaning plants definitely need more than 14 hours to keep vegging. I would get them to 18/6 inside, then taper back to 15 hours of light and that is about where it needs to be to transition into spring time.

I have been wondering about this too.
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