To flower or not to flower???

[greenWillie]

Hey All, I am a med pacient out in Astoria and am wondering if anybody new at what node is the best to start flowering. I know most people start at around one foot but my plants are at three weeks and are starting on their seventh node at six inches. The seeds where from nervana and they are nypd and black Jack, I am growing in a home made aero ponics system and I have about four and a half feet to grow with. My light is a 400w with a hortalux blue MH.

What do you guys think ?

greenWillie Reviewed by greenWillie on 05-14-2010. To flower or not to flower??? Hey All, I am a med pacient out in Astoria and am wondering if anybody new at what node is the best to start flowering. I know most people start at around one foot but my plants are at three weeks and are starting on their seventh node at six inches. The seeds where from nervana and they are nypd and black Jack, I am growing in a home made aero ponics system and I have about four and a half feet to grow with. My light is a 400w with a hortalux blue MH. What do you guys think ? Rating: 5

[Jooky1]

you control flowering is based on the size plant you can have at harvest. If you can only have a 2ft plant then you flower directly from seed.
If you can have a 10ft plant flower when the plant is 3ft.
Typically everyone is indoors and have a 8ft ceiling subtract a couple feet to keep from burning plants from the light. Subtract the height of a large pot. Now you have a space of 5ft tall.
Plants double or triple when they flower.
So you could go as high as 2ft in veg. but the added time to get 2ft isn't directly proportional getting that much now product. They have found you and turn out more little plants and get an ok yield than growing large plants for a longer time and get a big yield.

You say you have 4.5ft, just flower 12" and call it good.

[greenWillie]

you control flowering is based on the size plant you can have at harvest. If you can only have a 2ft plant then you flower directly from seed.
If you can have a 10ft plant flower when the plant is 3ft.
Typically everyone is indoors and have a 8ft ceiling subtract a couple feet to keep from burning plants from the light. Subtract the height of a large pot. Now you have a space of 5ft tall.
Plants double or triple when they flower.
So you could go as high as 2ft in veg. but the added time to get 2ft isn't directly proportional getting that much now product. They have found you and turn out more little plants and get an ok yield than growing large plants for a longer time and get a big yield.

You say you have 4.5ft, just flower 12" and call it good.

Thank you for the reply, I have a vented hood so I can have the light as close as I want to the plants, so that is not a problem. i was just worried about going over my space and messing up my plants.
Have you tried the SOG method? I was thinking about doing this so that I can utilize more space by creating an even canopy. If I did this would I need to vedge my plants a little more then 12" ??

Again thank you for the reply, and sorry for all the questions.

greeWillie