big favor gang, can all fellow 400w let me know who u are so i can read thru everyones journal . currently got plants in veg next run will be a 12/12 from seed. i wanna get some good ideas
Riu member jondamon had a killer grow with a 400w.............check it out!!!anyone.....lol...400w grows ?!?!
I just did the math and it looks like i can fit 6 2 gals with 3 1 gals so I may do that and then if I notice that the 1 gals are yielding significantly less I will try the 2l to 2gal transplant method and if the 1 gals wind up being around the same size I could swap out the 6 2 gals for 9 more 1 gals for 12 plants in rotation instead of 9 so we'll see thanks for your help!Transplanting usually causes stress, but nothing undue.
I still find that up-potting can lead to a nice growth explosion after
the recovery.
Good luck,
JD
So you admit theres a point when a plant is mature enough to flower.. but you say you can make it do this earlier by giving it 12 hours of light when its not yet mature?Ive been "forcing" mine to flower(12/12) for over a year now and I havn't had any hermies.I use mexi-scwag bag seeds but I don't think that matters much.You can keep a plant vegging for yrs in the right conditions with at least 18 hrs of light.When a plant is mature enough to flower it will start alternating nodes.
So basically, AT LEAST the seedling stage should be getting more than 12 hours of light. If your plant shows female hairs in 3 weeks, then thats 3 weeks you should be vegging. I dont know how you can say that a strain which didn't show sex for 2.5 months can be flowered straight away from seed... maybe it'll show sex twice as fast, like after one month, until then it will just get inadequate light and stretch as if its flowering until its mature enough, then it will stretch more and probably produce less than half what it would if vegged properly. So from that you could determine that the Early-induced flowering* period is one month, so start 12/12 after one month, but even that would be based on forcing a plant to flower when its not ready.Early-induced flowering* isn't the same thing as forcing your plants to flower. If you force flower a strain before it has pre-flowered it will flower at roughly the same time as a plant from the same strain that has been flowered after calyx development has occurred naturally. Force flowering simply acts by stressing the plant into a crisis condition.
You will get the best out of your plant by waiting until it starts pre-flowering before switching to 12/12.
I just put another bagseed in my tent a week and a half ago and she has already shown sex and started flowering.So you admit theres a point when a plant is mature enough to flower.. but you say you can make it do this earlier by giving it 12 hours of light when its not yet mature?
Quote from someone who probably doesnt grow with bag seed:
So basically, AT LEAST the seedling stage should be getting more than 12 hours of light. If your plant shows female hairs in 3 weeks, then thats 3 weeks you should be vegging. I dont know how you can say that a strain which didn't show sex for 2.5 months can be flowered straight away from seed... maybe it'll show sex twice as fast, like after one month, until then it will just get inadequate light and stretch as if its flowering until its mature enough, then it will stretch more and probably produce less than half what it would if vegged properly. So from that you could determine that the Early-induced flowering* period is one month, so start 12/12 after one month, but even that would be based on forcing a plant to flower when its not ready.
BTW mine haven't started alternating nodes yet and they are 30 days in flower from the first white hairs.. which makes me further question the validity of this method since they should be alot further along by now in other words I FLOWERED TOO EARLY. This method is only viable for quickly maturing strains.
Perfect answer thank you sir.I add a week.
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JD
Hey del. I know this thread is old but it is phenominal. I wanted to PM you but your inbox is full. I know you do 12/12 from seed, but I was hoping I could get some advice on sog with clones. Floor space is 4'x5' with 4' ceiling. 1000w bulb. Thought a safe number would be 24 plants vegged for 2-3 weeks depending on strain.and these are my grapefruits