Splinter7
Well-Known Member
i know it's just my personal data i can analyze, but i never had to wait longer than day 67 of flower on any grow (120 plants or so over 20 years) and when i did it was sleep inducing.
my last grow i had genes that were 60/40, 40/60 and 1 that was nearly 100% indica. breed recs, i know, were between 50 and 63 days. all of them could have gone 80 days or more. the indicas were the slowest to mature. i never had such a slow ripening, i realized people growing sativas will need to take them longer, but all these are indicas or hybrids. the shwag seed i used to grow was ready at ~63 days or earlier under HPS (i did grow some old silver haze that took 13 weeks, but that was a rare event). even long ago, they were always cut by trichomes, with first check at 75% red hairs.
my prior setup, blurple viparspectra, was getting stuff ready by day 56. on 50/50 genetics. i even did an early cut at day 44 out of that tent and it was very viable...people enjoyed it. it was very fruity unlike the skunk/lemon that it turned into when more ripe.
i realize strains are different and that is important, but how important are the lights in doing this. the new lights i have use 301b diodes, but don't have uv diodes. i did add some UV with an agromax pure uvb bulb, but i don't think it did much.
my last grow i had genes that were 60/40, 40/60 and 1 that was nearly 100% indica. breed recs, i know, were between 50 and 63 days. all of them could have gone 80 days or more. the indicas were the slowest to mature. i never had such a slow ripening, i realized people growing sativas will need to take them longer, but all these are indicas or hybrids. the shwag seed i used to grow was ready at ~63 days or earlier under HPS (i did grow some old silver haze that took 13 weeks, but that was a rare event). even long ago, they were always cut by trichomes, with first check at 75% red hairs.
my prior setup, blurple viparspectra, was getting stuff ready by day 56. on 50/50 genetics. i even did an early cut at day 44 out of that tent and it was very viable...people enjoyed it. it was very fruity unlike the skunk/lemon that it turned into when more ripe.
i realize strains are different and that is important, but how important are the lights in doing this. the new lights i have use 301b diodes, but don't have uv diodes. i did add some UV with an agromax pure uvb bulb, but i don't think it did much.
