What do YOU consider to be day 1 of flower?

Nugachino said:

I count from the flip. And (try) to run them till they're done. I've heard it's a good idea to start changing the nutes from nitrogen heavy to a more phosphorous and potassium heavy mix.

That's not to say- go nuts with it. Just start changing the feeds gradually a week or two before changing light cycles. Like uh... drop 15% off the Nitrogen to begin with. And add that between the others kind of thing.

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Xcoregamerskillz said:

I think I'll start the early flower feeding schedule for my plant tonight then. I had heard feed veg until after the stretch was over, but maybe not?

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OldMedUser said:

I don't understand why some guys do that. I try to add Bloom and a half dose of Big Bud, 0-17-34, to the last feeding they get a few days to a week before the flip. They have a full dose of the other nutes too and they'll need it. During the stretch your plants eat up to 4x as much then it drops off drastically once stretch is over. I measured daily my ppms in a few DWC grows and I could tell when the end of stretch was near and then I'd do a nute change to a lower level of all flowering nutes not using the Grow at all. I apply the same logic to plants I grow in pots.

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Nugachino said:

Sorry. I'm not savvy on bottled stuff. I grow with organic soil. And feed with worm bin runoff.

The only time my plants get anything from a packet. Is when they're closer to the flip. Then they get some organic brunnings fruiting plant bloom booster.

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Nugachino said:

I use mine for the whole garden. Grows everything from potatoes to sunflowers really well. That. And it reduces the amount of household waste we bin each week.

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ttystikk said:

Day One is the first day after flipping to your flowering schedule.

As folks above have already pointed out, how quickly things progress depends on many factors like light intensity, temperature, strain and nutes.

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Nugachino said:

The breeders average is under perfect conditions. Usually by a highly skilled grower with all the lights and space they need to obtain that plants maximum yield.

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Nugachino said:

I count from the flip. And (try) to run them till they're done. I've heard it's a good idea to start changing the nutes from nitrogen heavy to a more phosphorous and potassium heavy mix.

That's not to say- go nuts with it. Just start changing the feeds gradually a week or two before changing light cycles. Like uh... drop 15% off the Nitrogen to begin with. And add that between the others kind of thing

They still need some Nitrogen in flower. If they start to yellow. They either need more nitrogen. Or they're closing in on the end of flowering cycle. Or even experiencing a nute lockout. Yellowing should start from bottom up. Not the other way round.

Yellowing from top down is either a sign of lockout or needing a feed.

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GroErr said:

Counting your days to know when they finish is pretty well a waste of time as there's a ton of variation in finish times from seeds. That said, I do count but only to track variables in my environment when I make changes and only when I'm running clones that I've grown before so I can see if there were any differences in finish times or expression for known clones/phenos. I count from the day I flip as it's the most consistent starting point across different strains/phenos.

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Dr. Who said:

^^^^BINGO THAT^^^^

Count? I don't need no stinking count!

They all go longer then they are stated to anyway! Some go a lot longer. I look at plant - plant tell me when done! I harvest then!

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Dr. Who said:

Count? I don't need no stinking count!

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sandhill larry said:

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