When to start flowering?

Hey, All.. Got some bubblegums at about 3 weeks (8 total; 3 look a little rough). The 5 good ones have 4-5 sets of leaves and side branches about an inch long. The overall plant height is about six inches. They've really bushed up over the last week.

I really just want to grow my personal smoke and, as a forester, I know that every day the tree is standing is another day something bad can happen to it. Any guidelines on when to start flowering to produce potent smoke without a whole lotta concern about quanitity? I don't really smoke much... a half-ounce would carry me for a year or more.

See this thread.

You can start flowering now if you wanted as long as your plants are rooted! A loose guess would be if you grow them to 12 inches and start flowering for 8-9 weeks you should get @ 1oz per plant thats just a quesstamation but its there to give you an idea there are many variables to how much you will yield but hope that helps give you an idea!

I'm just gonna throw my 2 cents in here:

I always flower when my plant has 6-8 internodes (read this in some grow book, said that at this stage the plant is mature enough to successfully tackle the flowering cycle).

Also, it's best if pure indicas have 8-12" and pure sativas 20-24" before starting flowering, this height being also a sign that your plant is mature enough for bud production.

Expect indicas to double-triple their size, while sativas to triple-quadruple theirs.

PS: of corse, depending on strain and space available, these numbers tend to change. Some growers have fantastic yealds even with 12/12 from seed, with plants no taller than 1 foot.

Great... thanks folks. I think I'll give that 6-8 internode rule of thumb a try.

Kriegs said:

Great... thanks folks. I think I'll give that 6-8 internode rule of thumb a try.

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flowered my b gum at 4 ish weeks and got 161 g wet mmmm

Yes 18/6 is the best way to go! then 12/12 for flowering

Thanks, folks... I checked height yesterday -- my best ones are at 7" and they all have 5 internodes. No signs of pre-flower yet. So, I'll bide my time for awhile. This is so exciting.. I just get impatient.

Can anyone tell me how much water to give my plants im in coco pro 25 litre pot plants are white rhino 4ocm in height im using a dripper system cheers guy n dolls