Yeah man, procrastination! Everything always seems to fall into place just when it needs to so i think we are gonna be just fine! : ) . Im gonna check out your grow in a second! Before you flipped did you put in 36 of darkness , or did you just flip the shit? lol. : D! i hear you loud and clear on the supercropping being done a bit before flower I wanna flip them at 13" butll itll probably be a few more days till they reach that so i think ill have time. oh by the way Have you supercropped? results?
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I've used a 19/5 schedule for the past month, since the HIDs have been in (they were on 24/0 with only CFLs for a month and half before that). So this last dark cycle, I gave them a couple more hours of darkness, and now they're on 12/12. I've heard 36 hours of darkness just stresses your plants more than simply being flowered so suddenly and doesn't necessarily produce more phytochrome, the flowering hormone. The closest way to nature would be to step up to 12/12 on 1 or 2 hour implements every other day. But then you don't get those long hours of veg. growth right up until flower, so I don't know how the yield of both systems would compare. More veg. growth is more bud sites, but more phytochrome and less stress is a harder onset of flowering, which usually means that the momentum carries through til Harvest.
I'm just thinking out loud, sorry
I topped most of my tall plants once (didn't FIM or anything, since I was worried enough about cutting my girls for the first time) and fully tied the Sativas; the Indicas don't lend themselves to as much tying as the Sativas, so I tied them less so; the Hybrids kinda just let me know when they need tying by stretching a branch out into the shadows. So there are ties on pretty much all of the plants, but only the Sativas have the majority of their branches tied; the Indicas and Hybrids generally only have side branches tied, with maybe a tie on the side to arch the entire plant and get more light into the center.
The results are definite; way more branching and overall filling-out-of-space, but it is to be seen whether or not these new branches will be strong enough to support top buds. there are fans on everybody, but I think their potassium intake needs to go WAY up.
I'm also using Ginormous as a foliar to aid in the transition; I recommend something along the same lines, whether it's Bud Blood, Open Sesame, Ginormous, etc.
starting their flowers strong will finish their flowers strong!