Quote Originally Posted by emmpey
yeah, we're all like that here bro

4 weeks is the absolute minimum, hang on for 40 days if you can. even better would be to wait until you have alternating leaves which is a sign the plant has fully matured.

if you flowered yours now you would only be looking at around 1/8 - 1/4 oz per plant - wait two weeks and it'll be more like 1/2 oz or better. a good compromise would be if you could flower a couple to smoke early and let the rest carry on vegging.
Good words of knowledge their. However One of the peak times for the bloom cycle is after the Cannabis plant has had it's full run in Veg..
example: You might soon relize (if you put much time into it), that Cannabis has many diffrent growth stage's. At the start the plant spits out a single pair, the the next is a pair with 3 finger's, ect. After this set's in you might get lucky and find some pre-flower's. Then alternating node's kick in. Then in most case's, what usually follow's a short time after...the plant will exibit(sp?), more ,and more finger's on set's of leave's as the plant gets older. It's like a whole nother growth spurt! And finally the plant will produce it's normal pattern, which tells you the strech won't be all that bad, and bud production will be optimal for weight. Given the right condition's.
I have witness'd this on every strain grown.
However whats weird is this seems to not happen if I take a cutting from this plant and start a batch of clones. the clones won;t go through this second growth spurt for some reason.
I had some bag-seed-Sativa's afew years ago, that had a handfull of leave's the size of steering wheel's, and by the end of the second growth spurt she would only produce the standerd 9 finger leaf pattern, all exact in size, and structure, measuring roughly 6" at best. never again did she produce anything other then that. While growing under a diffrent light I topped the other sativa before the second growth spurt, and used the cutting as a mother, the resultant clones never went through the second stage.
This hasn't been a one time example either.
Anyway just thought I'd throw in a comment. Other then that.....Nice job:thumbsup: