when do i switch to a 12/12?

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hammertime

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the plant is about 45 days now and 13-15 inches.

for a while i had it on 8+ hours of light (left it outside, basically)

and then switched to 16/8 about a week ago.

i think i read that the lighting is supposed to be switched when it's about 1/3 the height you want it to be?


is this true?

also, for flowering, do you just switch lighting and that's all?
 
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SuMsHaDy

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With 4 feet of grow room, approxmiately how tall before should the plants be before I flower ? How many times does one top the plant before flower ?
 
MRbudsmoker

MRbudsmoker

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a plant will easily double in size when you switch to flowering. might need to tie branches down if you end up with hardly any space!!!
 
kieahtoka

kieahtoka

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Essentially, topping only spreads out bud and gives you a bush, not a tree. we'd need pictures to tell if your plant is ready for flowering. If it's tall and spindly right now then it is probably a sativa dominant and can quadruple in height. 13-15 inches is a good flowering point in my opinion, how many nodes does it have?
 
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hammertime

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there were six nodes (which i think you mean sets of leaves?) but i trimmed one set so now it has five sets of leaves.
 
kieahtoka

kieahtoka

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that looks like either a 50/50 hybrid, or an indica with inadequate light. the leaves are too fat to be a pure sativa.
 
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hammertime

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it's just a seed from a random bag. nothing special. i don't have too much lighting now for financial purposes, just one light i keep on it for 12 hours and rotate the plant (once the plant gets a little bigger/i have more money i will get more lights)
 
zakcattack

zakcattack

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hey, my plant just poked itself above the ground, how much light should I give it? I just have one flourescent bulb above it right now.
 
turbo

turbo

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hammertime- i would expect about a 8-9 week flowering also i would reccomend gettin 2 48" ottlite t12s @ 40 watts that makes em grow nice
zakcattack- a plant needs only about 2000-2500 lumens to grow i would get 2 cfls (about 4000 lumens) or the 12's like i explained above to hammertime they work really good i have 14 t12 lights on 26 plantas and they grow spectacular
 
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