2nd Ebb and Flo Grow getting crowded. Start flower at week 5?

[danlboy]

This is my 2nd ebb and flow with 3 x 3 foot tray. 5" pots that hang in insert that has 25 holes. 1st grow came out 1/2 lb bud. 1st grow I transplanted from smaller chamber with 2 inch pots with hydroton into 5 inch pots with hydroton into tent. 400 watt HPS. Using Latewoods Legacy with Floralicious Plus.
I think the transplanting really stunted growth cause they are about 2 weeks ahead of my old crop. Last crop 7 females flowered after 7 weeks harvested at week 16. It looks like I may run out of vertical room for this grow and I need to sex em so I can thin, I have 12 plants now (5 white widow and the rest ROM x CC- not sure what those are really)
Question is.. should I change light cycle now so I can pull males before they get much bigger?

******** Tiny I know you had a system like this at one point and were very helpful with my first grow****

danlboy Reviewed by danlboy on 07-18-2010. 2nd Ebb and Flo Grow getting crowded. Start flower at week 5? This is my 2nd ebb and flow with 3 x 3 foot tray. 5" pots that hang in insert that has 25 holes. 1st grow came out 1/2 lb bud. 1st grow I transplanted from smaller chamber with 2 inch pots with hydroton into 5 inch pots with hydroton into tent. 400 watt HPS. Using Latewoods Legacy with Floralicious Plus. I think the transplanting really stunted growth cause they are about 2 weeks ahead of my old crop. Last crop 7 females flowered after 7 weeks harvested at week 16. It looks like I may run out Rating: 5

[tinytoon]

Yup time to flower!! Gonna be awful crowded in there

[danlboy]

Im thinking it may be more productive to move to an ebb and flow bucket system, I could get 9 5 gallon buckets in the grow tent. It would spread them out some and give me more vertical grow space.

[tinytoon]

Keep in mind that you need some room to get in there and tend to plants. Your tent looks to be about the size of mine and I do 4 5gal buckets DWC in there and at the end I'm glad it was only 4.