stage transitioning?

[maldo321]

well i want to start flowering my plants today but i read that i should keep them in a full 24 hour dark cycle before starting 12/12. i was just wondering if this was true and if anyone had any tips for flowering :rastasmoke:

thanks a ton

maldo321 Reviewed by maldo321 on 12-13-2009. stage transitioning? well i want to start flowering my plants today but i read that i should keep them in a full 24 hour dark cycle before starting 12/12. i was just wondering if this was true and if anyone had any tips for flowering :rastasmoke: thanks a ton Rating: 5

[BobBong]

I don't see any reason to disrupt the normal pattern more so than you already are.
Just switch to 12/12 at the end of a day and watch the magic happen.

If it's a mature vegetative plant it shouldn't take more than 10-14 days to see the growth pattern change. :thumbsup:

[redtails]

Like Bob said, no reason to try to mess with the natural cycle.

A good bloom fertilizer with a low N, a higher P, and avg K, particularly one made specifically for cannabis, makes all the difference as well as the final flush a week or so before harvest to clear the nutes out.

[maldo321]

Like Bob said, no reason to try to mess with the natural cycle.

A good bloom fertilizer with a low N, a higher P, and avg K, particularly one made specifically for cannabis, makes all the difference as well as the final flush a week or so before harvest to clear the nutes out.

any specific fertilizers you would recommend?

[SimplyWeed]

If it's a mature vegetative plant it shouldn't take more than 10-14 days to see the growth pattern change. :thumbsup:

im on my first crop ever just now and about to start flowering.. What changes will I see when I start flowering? obviously buds will start forming etc but will the plant grow faster on 12/12. My plants seem to be stretching rapidly on 18/6 just now while there vegging.

Thanks

[BobBong]

im on my first crop ever just now and about to start flowering.. What changes will I see when I start flowering? obviously buds will start forming etc but will the plant grow faster on 12/12. My plants seem to be stretching rapidly on 18/6 just now while there vegging.

Thanks

Stretching can be caused by a lot of factors. Heat, Light mainly.. maybe there's not enough light.. maybe it's to hot in the room.. Maybe the plant is male? Maybe it's hard Sativa genetic?

To many factors to really say for sure why the plant would be stretching. Female plants, even Sativa's should be slow steady growth with even spacing between nodes.

When you flower a plant before a mature vegetative or preflowering stage it would be considered force flowering a plant. This generally causes the plant to progress hormonally much faster than what is written into it as a normal speed. This can be fairly stressful and can cause the plant to stretch as a result. Usually the plant will only stretch for a week or so then you will see a change in the growth pattern.. In a less stressful environment this stretching can be minimized by doing certain things, Some treat the first 7-10 days of the 12/12 cycle as a "transition" stage where the plant is still treated like a vegetating plant.

Don't forget you're packing the life of the plant into 3-4 months indoors when naturally outdoors plants can grow for 6 or more. "Super speeding" the life of the plant so to speak.

B1 vitamins are great for minimizing stress whenever something is changed in the garden. I would always strongly recommend a B1 complex for any garden.

Hope this helps,
Bob.

[redtails]

I notice the growing tips lighten a bit in color to a pale lime green then a few days later there's the pistils or pollen sacks showing up at the nodes starting around the top.

maldo- the ferts I use and highly recommend are the fox farms line. Grow Big, Big Bloom, and Tiger Bloom. I use a combo of these and some of their other "enhancers"(really expensive but worth it). If you only get one of those go with the TB for flowering, it's 2-8-4 and you only need 2tsp per gallon of water(every other watering recommended) so the small bottle(about $20) will last you years basically.

[SimplyWeed]

thanks guys...

I'll be flowering on Saturday. currently have 14 plants under 1 x 600w light over a 6x4ft space and they are growing perfectly. Im guessing at some point i'll need to introduce a second light, is it best doing that when I start flowering? is there more of an incentive on getting as much light as possible during flowering or does it not differ from vegging?

Thanks in advance

[frostedwonder]

I have always seen or heard on here that go from less to more if your able to. The plants will love your 600w either way but to save money on electricity you can always go smaller on veg area, especially if its from reg seeds that you are not sure on gender just yet. If I was growing femmed seeds then I would throw everything I have at her without trying to save electricity and go for big growth and faster maturing if possible. I have a switchable ballast so for me if I am out of clones then my babies are first veg from seed on t5ho or cfl then my 400watt mh bulb then switch to hps 400w to finish in flower.

[SimplyWeed]

I have always seen or heard on here that go from less to more if your able to. The plants will love your 600w either way but to save money on electricity you can always go smaller on veg area, especially if its from reg seeds that you are not sure on gender just yet. If I was growing femmed seeds then I would throw everything I have at her without trying to save electricity and go for big growth and faster maturing if possible. I have a switchable ballast so for me if I am out of clones then my babies are first veg from seed on t5ho or cfl then my 400watt mh bulb then switch to hps 400w to finish in flower.

To my knowledge I should have 14 females there. It was feminized seeds I bought so here is hoping.

Would you go for 2 x 600w if you knew they were female. Things concerning me just now would be that the plants are getting very bushy so the stems arent getting as much light. I have all 14 pots side by side and some are overlaping. To spread them out I think I would need an extra light. The plants are californian Dream, I dont know anything about them but I would like to maxamize yield so my next crop can be small and someone advised me for yield I need as much light as possible.

Thanks for the tips