better yeilds

[stinkyattic]

since this plant was 5 months in vegetation it can accomodate this "shortcut."

5 months of veg is no shortcut! Burnable, that sounds like patience to me!

For a better yield:
-More light
-More time in veg, which you may spend training your babies- look up SCROG
-More ventilation, or supplemented CO2 if you are that far into growing
-High quality nutrients and supplements
-No stress such as insects, mold, light issues, heat, drought, cold, roots bound up, etc.

[Dutch Pimp]

I'm planning on harvesting much a plant within 2 weeks from now and I've been giving it 8 or 9 hours of light a day for the past week or so and not only have the buds been getting bigger at a faster rate, but the trichomes are spreading like mad and becoming very pronounced, insomuch that I was worried whether the accelerated trichome/resin production would outrun the proper mass and volume of the buds. I did all this because I read if you want to harvest quicker, pull photoperiods down, even to eight hours.

I may try that, next time.

[Garden Knowm]

HELLO dearest...PIMP..

you vegged a plant for 5 months.. INDOORS?

WTF.. can I see a picture of that plant.. thanks..

iloveyou

[drumanick0]

haha i wouldnt mind seein that pic too....thats long as hell, almost half a yearhaha, anyways, more tips on goodyeild?

peace out
nick

[Dutch Pimp]

HELLO dearest...PIMP..

you vegged a plant for 5 months.. INDOORS?

WTF.. can I see a picture of that plant.. thanks..

iloveyou

One of us is stoned. I said I might try pulling down the light period to 8 or 9 hours 2 weeks before harvest on my next grow. 30 days - plenty for veg. It was Burnable that did the 5 month veg. (Why, I don't know?) P.S. all my friends call me Dutch.

[jamstigator]

The main things I have learned, which primarily concern indoor growers:

1) Use a 4- or 5-gallon pot (or bigger)
2) Have an even canopy whenever possible
3) Keep your lights as close as you can without burning the plants
4) Use a decent nutrient regime
5) Use quality soil, with perlite and vermiculite mixed in
6) Don't overwater
7) Control your temperatures
8) Provide plenty of ventilation
9) Use as much light as you can without temperature problems

Do those 9 things and you are pretty much guaranteed a good yield. I don't think your lighting schedule (12/12, 14/10, whatever) at the end of flowering has anywhere near the effect on yield as those 9 things. In fact, from my experience with the two strains I have, changing the light schedule had no effect at all, but perhaps that varies from strain to strain. Personally, I just leave it at 12/12 and let 'er go.

[iwantFUEGO]

do your best to expose ALL the buds by growing the plant sideways.

[burnable]

HELLO dearest...PIMP..

you vegged a plant for 5 months.. INDOORS?

WTF.. can I see a picture of that plant.. thanks..

iloveyou

i should be more clear. It was out of necessity that the plant vegged for 5 months. I was moving from place to place and I really didn't even plan on harvesting anything from it. I had even hid it in my rigidly mormon parents' house and drove it on a 14 hour car trip. As a result it's had a hard life and inadequate lighting, so it's only about 18" tall but extremely bushy and mature, which is why i think she was so ready to give up her flowers. I can't harvest her all at once cuz off the thick secondary growth, so she'll have to be a perpetual.
Anyway, didn't mean to derail from the real point of this thread, it just seemed like ppl were wondering

[Trivium]

14/12 is the light cycle, not 14/10. I have a video were a fellow grower explains on how an extra 2hours of light increase's bud growth, and you still have the 12 hours to recieve THC. Much better IMO.

[jamstigator]

That's not really an extra 2 hours, because that's 14/26, instead of 12/24. So that's really an extra 55 minutes of light per actual 24 hour period. If that works, I can see how it might be worth it, but getting off a 24-hour format where the 'day' for the plants would drift two hours each actual day would be too hard on my brain. You'd have to keep a chart to know where you are on the 14/12 cycle each day to make sure you don't open the box when the lights are off, and you'd have to adjust your schedule 2 hours later each day to handle feeding and such. If I grew for profit...maybe I'd try that. Since I don't, that's just too much headache for me, whether it works or not. Heh.