12/12

[Davidj56]

When do you start the 12/12 light process??? How do you do the process explain to me what it means?? How long do you do it for and how old should the plant be when i do it??

Davidj56 Reviewed by Davidj56 on 07-01-2006. 12/12 When do you start the 12/12 light process??? How do you do the process explain to me what it means?? How long do you do it for and how old should the plant be when i do it?? Rating: 5

[Zandor]

12/12 is the process in which you flower the plants. When growing out female plants you only want to smoke the flower part of the female plant.

Most people will veg their plants for about 30 day's give or take. It depends on your experience and your style of growing. Veg is a min of 18 lights on and 6 lights off.

Once you decide to put them into flower after the first week of a light cycle of 12/12 you can start feeding them some nutrients for the flower cycle. I.E. Bloom nutrients are now added at this point to enhance your veg nutrients.

It takes about 50-60 day's or more for the plant to finish budding but it's imposable to guarantee that here. Factors like nutrient quality, light, ventilation, temperature it was grown under, stress, and even the strain can all affect how long it take to flower.

You will only know when the proper time to harvest is when all the Trichomes are cloudy and only about 10-20% are amber. You can only view them with a 10x or more pocket microscope. A 30X lighted pocket microscope is the best.

There is a lot more to know like Ph control and knowing your strain but that is the short quick version.

You may want to read up on more specific information before you just post general questions that are to hard to get a straight answer.

Happy growing.

[dreamknight]

thanks for quick version its very heelpful.

[BlueBear]

Also, before going to flower leav the plants in 24 to 36 hours of darkness before the 12-12 scycle.
Adieu

[alienhybrid]

Do you need to do 12/12 artificially in order to flower or will they do it naturally once the days shorten?

[Anathema2121]

Do you need to do 12/12 artificially in order to flower or will they do it naturally once the days shorten?

If you're growing outdoors, then yes, your plant will automatically flower once the days shorten. You could artificially induce flowering by blocking light to the plant for twelve hours a day, but that is more of a pain in the ass than it would be worth and you might as well be growing indoors if you're gonna go through that trouble.