How long can i veg???!!!

[BrokenBone]

OK i just got 2 clones today one very young and one is a teen that appears to be ready to flower. i was just wondering if i could veg it another month or so? any advice would be great. ps, its a indoor closet grow and my first grow is threre a limit to how long u can veg

 

[tobikan.judan]

Veg forever dood

 

[BrokenBone]

^^real shit??

 

[Dinosaur Bone]

In the "Ask Ed" {Rosenthal} Book, Ed says he saw a mother once that was 7 years old........... So to play it safe keep your veg time down to under 5 years I guess.

 

[Tstone]

u can grow for a long time , but if small grow room maybe go 5-6wks. Once u start flower stage it will take off!

 

[leftreartire]

in my honest opion you can veg for a very long time. what seems like forever but remember when you flower your plant it will come close to tripling in size. thats right triple. but a lant does need to be mature to flower and if you put it on 12/12 you still need to wait for it to mature for flowers so i sugest that you veg your plants untill you are certain that they are pistile and it is female then you can flower. that is my opion and i am sure some will vary and some will say i am wrong but take it as you want.

 

[BrokenBone]

ok cool learn something new every day.

 

[BrokenBone]

in my honest opion you can veg for a very long time. what seems like forever but remember when you flower your plant it will come close to tripling in size. thats right triple. but a lant does need to be mature to flower and if you put it on 12/12 you still need to wait for it to mature for flowers so i sugest that you veg your plants untill you are certain that they are pistile and it is female then you can flower. that is my opion and i am sure some will vary and some will say i am wrong but take it as you want.

my grow room is small and i plan to lst both clones but is that the method to get more than one shoot/cola or is that method called fimming??? i want to get the most out both clones

 

[gobbly]

alternating nodes is maturity, not pre-flowers. And yeah, nothing is going to flower till it hits maturity (starts alternating nodes). You can flower your mature clone immediately, or wait (this is the idea behind sog/scrog, the need for a lot of small mature plants pretty much necessitates clones). Keep in mind that most sources (mel frank, ed rosenthal, etc) will say that plants will be most potent if flowered somewhere between 6-12 months of veg. After that the potency tends to drop. I suspect the mothers that you see that are years old are kept around for breeding (there are for sure 10+ year old mothers out there). The progeny doesn't care about it's parents age, but I don't think you'd want to keep cutting a mother much longer than a year. If I'm wrong someone speak up though! I have never kept a clone long enough to know myself, this is all just based on what authors have written

 

[gobbly]

my grow room is small and i plan to lst both clones but is that the method to get more than one shoot/cola or is that method called fimming??? i want to get the most out both clones

LST, topping, supercropping, fim. they are all different things. I'd suggest looking more in depth into each, but I'll give you a brief rundown.

LST: Basically attach weights or use rope/wire to pull (bend) parts of the plant down. Basically giving it small amounts of stress, equivalent to a person walking around all day with ankle weights.
Topping: Cut a stem just above a node, forcing to plant to develop two new growth shoots from the nearest node, as well as encouraging some lateral branching.
Supercropping: You lightly crush the cellulose wall inside the stem of the plant. This causes the effected shoot to stop growth while it repairs the wound, and also causes a fair amount of lateral branching. The repaired stem will be much more efficient and much stronger, and can produce similar growth structures to fiming.
Fiming: You remove the growth tip, in most cases leaving the surrounding stem and fan leaves. Kinda hard to describe, pictures and video help a lot. You basically are removing enough of the growth tip to force extensive lateral branching (by forcing hormone production in lower branches).