are my plants mature enought to flower

[GrowinGreen23]

Actually i got this information from a few of the well known people offering solid advice on this forum. I mean do i know its an exact scientific study to prove it's five nodes or more? nope plus i tried it like that and i was satisfide with what i came out with for a beginner!

GG23

[Kaparski]

SO shitzen...

Im grow area is about 3 feet high and my plant is nearing the top of the cabinet......its been about 2 months since it seeded and has been pruned once....its still in its veg. state

If I were to flower starting next week how big would the final plant be?? would it grow even larger?

Additionally, could I leave the daylight bulbs in the cabinet for the flowering stage and still produce a good yield? Would it encourage more growth if I left those lights in? What are the negative effects of using a 5300k bulb for flowering?

[babystarbud]

it would be aprrox twice the height of the cab if it hasnt been topped or trained in some way.

there seems to be a lot of misinformation on here about light.

IMHO, theres no such thing as bad light.
there is, however, such a thing as good light.
i dont want to get into a discussion about what is better than what, im sure we allready know that. you just have to make the best of what you have or can get.

AFAIC keep all the lights you want on it as long as you can controll temp and air circulation, blue, red, both, whatever!

[pinkchick]

Now, I am quoting from a book. Best time to flower is when the plant shows you its ready by moving from veg to pre-flower under 24/0 or (better) 18/6. In the beginning, the plant developes nodes, with branches appearing in the middle space. After a while, no new branches appear but pre-flowers - experienced growers are even able to tell the sex in pre-flower. Then you switch to 12/12.

Of course, if you don't have the space... Hm. As far as I recall, mostly indicas will double their size during flower. Sativas are impossible to grow in a cab without pruning and training, which costs even more time.

I just completely burned one of my mostly indicas (long story, don't ask - just one of those days). They are now 3 1/2 weeks from seed, 2 weeks under a 400W HPS - last time I use that for veg, by the way. They are growing fine, but too much heat plus immense electricity is just not worth the trouble. They now have 6 nodes and develop their side branches - where additional bud will be placed eventually. My girls will get another 2-3 weeks of veg, probably, and then be sent to flower. I rather invest another week if necessary and get better results... but that's just me.

[OmegaVermelho]

I do understand that, but I'm a little confused about using only red spectrum in vegetative and the fact someone stated it has a detrimental affect on the plants sex.

Well from all i´ve read so far i can´t really say ... all i can say is that a bunch load of ppl do it with very nice results, altho i dont really know what is the female ratio per plant seeded...i allways assume that a plants sex has to do with genetics (appart from hermies) and not the light spectrum ...
I do hope that GrowingGreen23 info is correct cause i allways veg with Blue, so in that way maybe my female plant ratio will be higher then the usuall 50 - 60% ... :rasta: :rasta: :stoned:

[oliwog]

well to be honest i dont think it makes a huge difference with what colour you use there are reccomended ones for the stages as they best represent the natural light conditions for that season
either way i have both a red and blue on mine through out both veg and flower
oh and in respect to what the thread was originally about i emailed femaleseeds.nl and they got back to me and said that the plants can be flowered from one week from germination but due to my low light levels they recomend giving them 2 - 3 weeks veg and to top/prune them to get a better result but they said it will work fine either way
there coming on well so far they already have secondry nodes coming through at two weeks from germ now
il put a update on seperate thread with pics soon so peps can follow rest of the grow along with my other plants untill they finish
look out for it