Ok. I've had a few grows under my belt now. But I'm still fuzzy in one area:

How, exactly, do you tell your plant is "ready" to bud? I already know you can force budding as early as 1 week from seed, and that many growers simply set to 12/12 at 30 days. What I mean is when the plant "feels" ready to enter puberty.

What I have always done in that past is either 1) next new or full moon after 30 days, or 2) as soon as nodes stop forming bilaterally, and start "zig-zagging", whichever comes first.

Plants that have not started zig zagging when I start them budding usually stretch tremedously. I think the zig-zagging is the indicator, but dunno.

The wheelchair project appears to be starting to zig-zag at 25 days. I plan to throw it into bud on the Jan 4th full moon. I'm going to start the "pre-bud" (switch from 24/7 to 18/6) tonight.
Volker Reviewed by Volker on . how do i know when to put my plant on 12/12 hey, im not sure when to put my plant on 12/12, its got 5 sets of fan leaves and is about a foot and a half tall and the bottom leaves fell off about a week ago. im growing it indoors and it has what look like tiny buds forming up and down by the stems Rating: 5