Wondering When To Flower

[dirty]

hideyho fuckers,

I have had my little dudes growing indoors underlights ( 18/6) for about a month now. Prior to that they grew from seeds outdoors for about 3 weeks. They are about 40cm tall and bushy and thick as all fuck.

 

when should I start to reduce the light cycle to 12/12?. my grow room is 1100 x 1100 and about 1800 tall. I figure the absolute max height the plants could grow to without burning would be approx 1200.

 

thanks dudes

take it easy

[Tom]

I usually switch to the flowering cycle when they are at 1/3 the available grow height (where you are now), this allows for stretch and for the light(s) to have a good coverage across the canopy when they reach their full growth, if your plants are an Indica dominant then I let them grow a little past the 1/3 as they don’t stretch as much as the Sativa dominants in flowering.

[dirty]

thanks tom,

i am growing white widow ( mostly indica) and early misty (50/50) so I guess I will give them another couple of weeks to get a bit more height.

 

take it easy

[Tom]

Careful with the WW, those plants can have a fair bit of stretch during flower and may need to be tied down if you have the space, some plastic trellis fastened around the walls can be useful for that.

[Chev]

Yup, the WW can go a bit feral if you don't watch her :: Bloody good hardy strain

The first time you've grown the 2 strains out? Early Misty sounds interesting..............

[dirty]

yeah, it is really my first grow.

I started outdoors just after xmas, a bit late I know, but better late than never. I ended up killing most of those plants with a heavy dose of pyrethrum. A couple survived.

 

One has gone hermie( about 150cm tall) I think, and one is looking like a nice little lady( about 1m tall).

I germed a few more seeds , and then I built an indoor grow room.

 

One of the original outside plants is also indoors with my little dudes. It is about 65cm tall and mega fucking bushy. I haven't decided what to do with it yet. i might finish my two outdoors plants first so I know what to expect ( they are a bit of an experiment I guess, so if I fuck them I don't really care). then I will flower the rest of the gang

 

 

thanks for the advice

take it easy

[Tom]

Take care with moving plants from outdoors to indoors, you can also introduce a few bugs into a tropical atmosphere and they will absolutely love it, check out the prevention link in my signature for an effective method of bug control.

[dirty]

thanks for the heads up tom.

I got rid of all the soil the plant was in , and repotted it in coco.

so far I have not found any bugs or other crap in my grow room.

during construction of the room, I bombed it and the surrounding area with a long lasting surface spray, to knock out any little nasties that wondered into the area. so far so good!