It really shouldn't matter as long as the lights that are on the plants are on. When the lights in your grow area are off, then you want your babies in COMPLETE DARKNESS. Make sure nothing interrupts them when your grow room lights are off. If you are planning to have your lights in your room...
Did you germinate the seeds first or just throw them in the soil? Either way you could end up waiting to close to a week. Give them some more time and keep the soil moist, but not drenched. Good luck!
On the 2nd picture there are a lot of bare spots. Next time make sure you have a lot of side lighting throughout vegging and flowering. Bud looks nice though!
Yes this is most certainly possible. Some people use this technique while others take clones from the vegging plant and put them in flowering to tell the sex. If you feel the need to veg more, then go right ahead. The plant shoul be fine. Good luck!
Your plants look good, but I would gradually drop the lighting down to 18/6 or 16/8. You should give your plants, equipment, and your electric bill a break. What kind of lighting are you using? Good luck with the grow!
Both of those bulbs you have would are O.K. for vegging, but they sure as hell aren't strong enough. I would definitely make a trip to Home Depot and get the highest lumen output bulbs you can find. They come in packaged deals which are very cheap. I would definitely invest in a Y splitter...
I'd say be as shady and as less conspicuous as you can. He's not going to do anything if he's off duty. I probably wouldn't do a huge grow, but maybe 10 plants would be O.K. As for smoking, maybe just smoke on the other side of your house. I would probably be a little paranoid, so good luck...
Congratulations! Looking pretty good if you ask me. On my first harvest I hung them upside down for about 5 days and then picked most of the bud off and put them in air tight glass jars. I would open the jars a few times a day as to prevent mold and once a day I would take them out and put...
Mine didn't really start stinking until a few days after flowering and it just kept getting worse (by worse I mean I loved it!). I have heard of many people's stinking towards the end of vegging. I had this same question a while ago. Check out this link...
Well technically you can use that HPS system for your entire grow, but it really won't show its true colors until flowering when the plants are more interested in the red/orangey spectrum. But that bad boy is bright enough, so I don't see why it shouldn't work. Yea I would definitely add some...
I suggest sticking with soil if this is your first grow. It is much easier. Make sure to keep your plants on a steady lighting time everyday! Once it is on 18/6, keep it like that until you are ready to go to 12/12. I don't really think you could be telling sex after only 2 weeks and not...
Well even though you are saying that it is not "genetically correct", it is POSSIBLE to begin the 12/12 lighting cycle that early. On my first grow I didn't know exactly what I was doing and I did this around the same time. A few weeks later I started seeing little white pistils. I researched...
Your plants are going to be huge if you just started flowering now. How tall were they before you started flowering? They look good, but some side lighting would help as well. Good luck on flowering!!