bk78
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nice 6 week old seedling
Could somebody please breakdown the different periods for the stages of growth?
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TreeFarmerCharlie
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What I'm getting at is that I don't think the stage definition is up for debate and I think it's an actual horticultural definition.
TonyGuyZ
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Really what you growing man
Yeah poured on some miracle gro and some superthrive
What do you mean "moved mine up"? To a bigger light?
When I pop seeds, I do so in my cloner tent. Once the seeds pop through the medium, I give them one more day, then they go into my 400W MH veg tent with the other veg plants. Just did this yesterday for two Sour Diesel seedlings. I still consider and treat them seedlings for a couple of weeks, but after that, they start getting fed at low doses, so I consider them veg at that point.
I'm just trying to provide some factual operating knowledge to you from a grower who's grown hundreds (if not thousands) of plants over going on a decade of indoor growing, plus 20 years on top of that outdoor.
TreeFarmerCharlie
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Have two Cherry Wine F2 CBD plants growing that I was planning on sticking outside that are on day 28 since sprout. They were grown from regs so I’ve been checking on them daily to see if they are showing sex. Yesterday morning they weren’t showing really anything. I saw one nub on the back...
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Pandora6
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It is a horticultural definition I'm not arguing that. Do I let mine go passed what definition calls seedling 100 percent. All I ment was use the horticultural definition as a guide line for when to repot or move to stronger light.
Pandora6
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Move up as in bigger pot. Stronger light.
I have mine under 13w CFL x2 then x4. From sprout till around week 2 then moved to my veg tent.
Oh and I let my seedlings sit in full sun for a few hours a day. Still inside that is
BluntMoniker
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The only thing I'm able to find in terms of the actual terminology and its use, is that it denotes young plants, or plants that have yet to be placed into their final grow space.
Even looking through an extension of PSU on seed and seedling biology, it refers to the plant as a seedling, up until the point it is planted outdoors.
So in general horticultural terms, it's still semi ambiguous, as they consider the plant a seedling until it's in its final growing space.. which doesnt exactly equate to our field, where you can up-pot several times before final containers, or put your seed directly into its first/final pot, or you can go weeks or months before putting plants in their final resting place.
If theres marijuana specific definitions or requirements to differentiate seedlings from general vegetative growth, it's likely just a generally accepted metric and not a definitive biological differential between "seedling" and non seedling
Ahhh, ok. I transplant to my final pot from my starter pot at the end of their third week in the veg tent. They then veg for another further five weeks before they go into flower for 10+. As I said before, my seedlings go under my big girl veg lamps after two days max from popping out of dirt (for clones, they go in the day I move them from cloner to dirt).
MelanieLovesCookies
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Thank you all for the information, I will respond to the posts after I can read in detail, but it seems even here there is no consensus on certain information!
twentyeight.threefive
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Welcome to RIU.
MelanieLovesCookies
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Is there a minimum period from when the seed sprouts to keep it in s vegetation before it can be forced into floweeing?
Nope, but obviously, the plants will remain very small and the yield will be equally small. Works well if you cram in a whole bunch of small plants in a perpetual (I ran my operation like this for quite a while a few years back with a mixture of newly rooted clones and seeds).
There should be a few "12/12 from seed" threads here on RIU if you use the search function.
Here's a picture from my 12/12 from seed run. There are three batches of eight flowering plants here. Every three weeks, eight new ones went in, eight came out for harvest (usually I'd have to leave the harvest batch in an extra week or so depending on strain).
Grew in spray painted 2L Coke bottles in a myriad of mediums (hempy, hydroton, soil and peat). Each eight plants went into the eight bottle carriers that I borrowed from the side of a convenience store. Very convenient indeed.
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twentyeight.threefive
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Yes there is a minimum period from seed to flowering. It won't flower until it reaches sexual maturity. If you give a one week old plant 12/12 light it's not going to start flowering.
MelanieLovesCookies
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What would be the approximate period to reach sexual maturity?
Thundercat
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That depends on strain, phenotype and even your environment. Some plants might reach maturity as early as 4 weeks from when they have leaves and start photosynthesizing. Most plants in my experience take 6-8 weeks to reach maturity though, and some heavy sativa strains may even take longer.
Like was mentioned you can flip the plant to 12/12 lighting whenever you want really. The plant will just continue to grow and mature until it reaches the point it is able to flower.
This is a major reason I discourage people from counting flowering time from the 12/12 light switch. The plants don't instantly start to flower, they have to reach the point they are able to once their hormones reach the appropriate levels. Thus flowering starts once the plants start forming flowers, just like all the outdoor growers.
MelanieLovesCookies
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Got it,! So you normally don’t go beyond 6 weeks at veg?
Thanks!
TreeFarmerCharlie
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I’ve gone as long as 8 weeks in veg.
TonyGuyZ
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Yep all depends on how big you want your girls