SeanIzen
Active Member
I read on the forums in a CFL thread growing your seed under 12/12 lighting from the get go and keeping it like that all the way through can keep your plants under 2' and instead just grow one large cola without a ton of nodes and leaves...
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How?
Just by using the tricks of Mother Nature!
Assume that seed in cold ground needs 5 to 10 weeks before it chooses its sex.
With 12 hours of light you can force them to choose there sex right away.
Mount a preferably in height-adjustable light fixture with 4-5 fluorescent lights over your seedlings in your flowering room.
The best fluorescent lights are 3x Philips cool white 33 ( NOT "deluxe") and 2x Philips 83 or 84 !
Your lighting store knows exactly what you mean and they are not expensive.
Have the tubes run on the same 12 hours as your flowering space by using a timer.
This way you prevent bad light and getting herma`s.
Use pots size 9x9 cm or 10x10 cm in which you put 1 seed.
To read how to germinate your seed follow >THIS< link.
Sow 3 seeds for every 2 females you need, 20 days before you harvest. Use good sowing/cutting soil with clay in it!
Be sure your medium isnt overfed. An EC of 0.5-0.7 is ok, and in this figure I include the ballast from the tapwater.
With the fluorescent lights right above their heads youll be amazed how well the seedlings will develop on 12/12 hours .. and directly choose to be male or female.
Thats why you can weed out the males on the 16-17th day. After 20 days even the biggest noob can recognize the males and get them out.
Dont be afraid of pollination females are always receptive a bit later than the males to release their pollen. In the worst case there can grow just one seed in a node of the plant through pollination of a female that chose sex.
They always show their sex in the node by creating one female flower. (Apparently there is a reason for this)
After you have harvested your flowering room you can put the female seedlings right from under the fluorescents into the 12/12 flowering regi me the same day, so you dont lose any time.
Because the new batch of females are already flowering for 2,5 weeks you only have 7 weeks to go to your next harvest!
In the meantime (20 days before harvesting) you have again sown seeds and the process repeats.
The result: You get more compact plants without all the lateral branches that take lots of space, take away light and cause a lot of cutting work.
A seedling which is put on 12/12 straight away will only make one big bud of 50-70 cm without lateral branches.
SO you can put more plants on a square meter because they dont stand in each others way!
If you start realizing that 85% of the weight comes from the main bud youll understand this system and will seriously consider using it.
Bigger growers can always make a deal about the price of the seed. (Think about that)
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If anyone else grows like this can you give your results? possibly pics of what these plants look like??
And I understand that a plant still has a veg time no matter what, all this is saying is that it seems to keep the veg time to a minimum.
Source:
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How?
Just by using the tricks of Mother Nature!
Assume that seed in cold ground needs 5 to 10 weeks before it chooses its sex.
With 12 hours of light you can force them to choose there sex right away.
Mount a preferably in height-adjustable light fixture with 4-5 fluorescent lights over your seedlings in your flowering room.
The best fluorescent lights are 3x Philips cool white 33 ( NOT "deluxe") and 2x Philips 83 or 84 !
Your lighting store knows exactly what you mean and they are not expensive.
Have the tubes run on the same 12 hours as your flowering space by using a timer.
This way you prevent bad light and getting herma`s.
Use pots size 9x9 cm or 10x10 cm in which you put 1 seed.
To read how to germinate your seed follow >THIS< link.
Sow 3 seeds for every 2 females you need, 20 days before you harvest. Use good sowing/cutting soil with clay in it!
Be sure your medium isnt overfed. An EC of 0.5-0.7 is ok, and in this figure I include the ballast from the tapwater.
With the fluorescent lights right above their heads youll be amazed how well the seedlings will develop on 12/12 hours .. and directly choose to be male or female.
Thats why you can weed out the males on the 16-17th day. After 20 days even the biggest noob can recognize the males and get them out.
Dont be afraid of pollination females are always receptive a bit later than the males to release their pollen. In the worst case there can grow just one seed in a node of the plant through pollination of a female that chose sex.
They always show their sex in the node by creating one female flower. (Apparently there is a reason for this)
After you have harvested your flowering room you can put the female seedlings right from under the fluorescents into the 12/12 flowering regi me the same day, so you dont lose any time.
Because the new batch of females are already flowering for 2,5 weeks you only have 7 weeks to go to your next harvest!
In the meantime (20 days before harvesting) you have again sown seeds and the process repeats.
The result: You get more compact plants without all the lateral branches that take lots of space, take away light and cause a lot of cutting work.
A seedling which is put on 12/12 straight away will only make one big bud of 50-70 cm without lateral branches.
SO you can put more plants on a square meter because they dont stand in each others way!
If you start realizing that 85% of the weight comes from the main bud youll understand this system and will seriously consider using it.
Bigger growers can always make a deal about the price of the seed. (Think about that)
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If anyone else grows like this can you give your results? possibly pics of what these plants look like??
And I understand that a plant still has a veg time no matter what, all this is saying is that it seems to keep the veg time to a minimum.