Minimum time seed to flowering

It's called the Sea of Green (SOG) method and is used for rapid harvests with high plant density. When you flip the plants into 12/12 (usually about 7-14 days old) they shoot off in a huge amount of growth. Internode spacing is pretty stretched, but your plant grows at an insanely fast rate and then flower when ready. If you want a quick harvest and you're willing to sacrifice some yield, then it's probably a good way to go.

This method can also be combined with a Screen of Green grow, allowing you to fill up your screens quickly due to the rapid growth of your plants.

can we get some one in here who actually has done this... i think im gonna try this just to see the results, i dont see a 7-14 day old seedling sprouting up anywhere more then half what it would ussually. It just doesnt logically make sense, and if you sacrafice half the yeild in half the time then it really means nothing. Or half the yeld in a third of the time is even worse. So u get a seedling at 7 days old that like what 2 sets of leaves at best, switch to 12/12 now the plant is going to grow, but not flower due to its immaturity. So it will double or tripple in size giving u about 6-8 sets of leaves which is small, now ur plants starts to flower but it doesnt get that boost because well u already used your NOS when u switched to 12/12. So you plant continues to flower. and 2 months later u have half the yeild margin. Now if you had vegged for a month, which is the time it probably takes to get your seedling to mature and flower under 12/12, u get sooo much more.... really is cutting back a week or 2 worth loosing your yeild. the time it takes your plant to fully flower is probably the same if you vegg for a month.

hehe, i have started turmoil... ok, you want an example? i'll be the example, i'm putting a 10 day old beanling in the flower room tonite.

i'll write a thread, and post a link here.

Sky :abduct:

ps, the plants on icmag began flowering in two to three weeks from seed (sexed positively) if i recall correctly...

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Originally Posted by Scarlet Sky

hehe, i have started turmoil... ok, you want an example? i'll be the example, i'm putting a 10 day old beanling in the flower room tonite.

i'll write a thread, and post a link here.

Sky :abduct:

ps, the plants on icmag began flowering in two to three weeks from seed (sexed positively) if i recall correctly...

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good news, i got no beans right now, im glad some one took the initiative.

http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...look-like.html

This plant was flowered at 4-5 nodes (and 4.5 inches tall) at 14-15 days OLD.. from seed...

The plant grew 6 X's its HEIGHT after switching to the flowering cycle (12/12)... It grew from 4 inches tall to 24 inches tall in 20 days (after switch to 12/12).

cheers

Mountainman, are you the same guy who allowed CC into yr. grow and they wrote an article on it, maybe 3 or 4 years ago ? Let me know, man. I have a question on air scrubbers for you.
Folks, the reason I started the thread was a) Because I had heard half-assed roumers that seedlings could be switched to 12/12, however it would seem from the posts here that the plant continues to grow in a manic vegetative way for a period of time, before flowering. And b) because I want to make new mothers from seed so I intend sprouting loads of seeds and growing them out. I'm not interested in yield, simply having enough to make a judgement on its quality.
I have always waited 4-5 weeks from seed before flowering, or until the plants reached their 5th-6th. internode and I could sex them.
So whats it to be ? Wack thinks I should do it like I've always done it; Mountainman says its possible.....BTW mountainman, When you flipped those seedlings to 12/12 and they started growing like crazy, how long was it before you saw the flowering response ?.

I am here to the rescue, Jack da wack.

Lets say you are growing a Northern Light. You know that you are gonna wanna harvest after ~60 days or 8.5 weeks. You grow your cute little seedling 15 days from the time it pops out of the soil(not even from seed). Then you flip to 12/12. Do you really expect to harvest ANYTHING in 8.5 weeks? Well you shouldn't. Its going to take at least another 2-3 weeks before it even STARTS showing sex.

As you see in my sig, I have 12 females. I flipped them to 12/12 at day 30 from seed. They were a little young at the time. Not sexually mature. They didn't start showing flower for another 2 weeks. After 3.5 weeks i finally got all the males out. While I have had them in flower for nearly 6weeks, they are just beginning to thicken up, and are at the stage where they have no smell, but buds are fattening up.

Obviously different strains mature faster than others, but you are smoking crack if you think you can veg for 15 days and harvest 8.5 weeks later. Yes, you can flower it at day 15, but don't expect a mature harvest for another 10-12 weeks.

My new magic number is 36 days for veg. I think its minimum.

it does lengthen flowering time as they are not mature but you can start 12/12 from seed if you wanted to, there really isnt an advantage to it that I see atleast indoors, if your outdoors near the equator guess you dont have much choice except to just use long flowering sativas if you want large plants,indoors they will be slightly smaller versus vegging for say 3-4 weeks but not a huge difference unless you are vegging for a longer period of time.

yeah, my point was strickly the fact that it has no advantages and probably isnt going to work out in favor. I really see it just taking the same time with less results. yeah veg is half but flowering is gonna take longer, and not be as much with smaller plants. vegging is when the plant determines its size, you can get a pretty good figure as to how big they will get in flower.

Here's someone on c.com who grew 12/12 from seed: http://boards.cannabis.com/indoor-gr...-confused.html

though I'm not sure if they did that purposefully or not since they're new.