Flowering early

[jackforest]

What is the least amount of time necessary for vegetation?

How early can the flowering process be started?

I'm looking for a relatively small harvest and have very little expectations.

Just curious for a short fast grow...

[fluid69]

are you growing from seed or clone? I'm not sure about from seed, but from my understanding you can kick clones over to flower after they take root.

[jackforest]

no clones

[JD1stTimer]

Seeds can be started at 12/12. They will not flower until they reach sexual maturity. If you grow a seed you will notice that at some point the leaves grow alternately instead of opposite. This is when flowering will kick in if 12/12 is used. The only problem is that the yields will not be close to the full genetic potential. But if you are not looking for good yields it will work no problem.

[fluid69]

from seed, I vegged for 4 weeks. you may be able to go less.

[jedubz]

I let my plants Veg for exactly four weeks. Fox Farms Ocean Forest and 5 CFL's can do wonders in a short period of time. I plan to harvest in exactly 12 weeks from the day I planted.

I made a post similar to yours here http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-growing/170377-8-small-plants-9-weeks-harvest-enough.html

And have run into some problems since, but I doubt that's because of how quick I sent them into flowering.

Here's them right when I started flowering, (http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-growing/171440-just-entered-flowering-now-problems-come.htmlhttp://boards.cannabis.com/basic-growing/171440-just-entered-flowering-now-problems-come.html)

And after I burned them to a crisp. (http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-growing/171697-heat-tortured-my-plants-can-i-save-them.html)