Minimum time seed to flowering

[houdini]

What is the minimum time I need to veg. for before the plant is mature enough to put into 12/12 ?.

houdini Reviewed by houdini on 01-29-2007. Minimum time seed to flowering What is the minimum time I need to veg. for before the plant is mature enough to put into 12/12 ?. Rating: 5

[Scarlet Sky]

i've seen peeps go 24/7 for ten days, then flip to flower...

[JackdaWack]

from seed, there is no way the plant is any way near ready for flowering 10 days from seed, and the 24/7 light schedual doesnt mean ur growing faster either. i would give a plants atleeast 25-30 days from seed they should be mature enough to flower, aswell as they should be able to hold a high ppm with out burning. 10 days thats like not even a plant yet.

[houdini]

Thanks Wack. I sorta thought 4-6 weeks myself, or until there are 4 internodal spaces. I'm growing out 50 seeds in the hope of locating a good mother. I'm going to sprout the seeds, put them in rockwool, and begin growing them in flats until the roots burst through. They then go into my aero system, I'll veg. them for 2 weeks or so (assuming 2 weeks in the flats) and put them onto 12/12

[JackdaWack]

well if your looking for a mother i would suggest finding some of the best ones that are vegging take clones at one month and then after they root, flower a couple of them to see sex, and then once u find femals the other clones still vegging will be nice and big ready to fully flower. and then u can pick your femal mother who is still vegging and it works out pretyy good. Just make sure u know which clones go with which vegging plant so u can determine sex and good genatics for a great mommy.

[canuck grower]

You can go straight to 12/12. There is a thread going on on icmag about it. People get around 1 - 1.5 oz using that method. The plant is going to grow and mature before it flowers regardless of the light cycle.

Personally I would just go 18/6 for a short time then flip them to 12/12 but you can flower from the get-go if you want to.

People growing sativas indoors can go 12/12 from the beginning as well to keep height and total time till harvest down.

[Garden Knowm]

4 nodes.. from seed.. that is usually 12-16 days for a healthy plant..

and NOW you KNOWM

[houdini]

I've been growing for longer than I care to remember and this is the first time I have heard that seedlings can be put on 12/12 and they will continue growing and once they are sexually mature they will automatically start to flower ?

Do I understand you correctly canuck ? O.K., so lets say I put week-old seedlings into 12/12. How long (on average) will they continue veg. growing before they are sexually mature and start to flower ? OR does the flowering response commence immediately once under 12/12 ?

[canuck grower]

Ok houdini I haven't done it myself so I'll refer you to where I read about it: 12/12 FROM SEED WORKS! That NL plant yielded 46g. Relevant posts: #11, 12, 22, 23, 25, probably others but I don't want to read it all again .

What I got out of that thread is that they will grow under 12/12 until mature and then begin to flower when they are ready. Like I said I don't know if I'd ever try it myself, and G.Knowm's post confirmed my suspicions that 12/12 from seed isn't going to be better than a short seedling/veg cycle and then flipping them after they have several nodes.

:jointsmile:

[JackdaWack]

to be completely honest with you, find a journal or somthing on this, dont go around saying this works becuase one kid did it, and posted one picture of a little plant, i can def say that your plant doesnt flower until it is matured and sexed, and well that takes times in the veg stage and in the flower stage who is to say it will even happen because now your forcing it to do something it really doesnt want to do. i mean u say they grow under 12/12 until there mature, u might as well put them under 20/4 until they mature and have full size plants when u flower instead of little runts, it probably takes longer for them to mature in 12/12. seems like a ppl "think" this works but in reality, u get alot less, in the same time.