12/12 Flowering cycle?

Keep nutes on schedule and in addition go get some bloom for once you see the buds. There is always mixing directions of how much nutes on the bottles. Seedling, veg and flowering as it varies for each stage but do not flush

I recommend staying with veg nutes during the first weeks of flowering, it will keep a little more N in your plants and may help the stretch.

12 hours dark, consistency is the key here which is why a timer is a great tool to use, sometimes absoloute darkness cannot be achieved.

regards,

Originally Posted by ru4r34l

I recommend staying with veg nutes during the first weeks of flowering, it will keep a little more N in your plants and may help the stretch.

12 hours dark, consistency is the key here which is why a timer is a great tool to use, sometimes absoloute darkness cannot be achieved.

regards,

I have also found that starting flower firts immediatly switching over has caused some nitrogen deficiencies later on. You want to keep those pan leaves green as long as possible and most flower first don't supply enough nitrogen. Losing the fan leaves prematurely can impact final harvest.

Originally Posted by RoguePlant

I'm starting my flowering 12/12 cycle tonight. I was just wondering, is there anything I should know before I go all in? I know ......(complete darkness for 12hrs, absolutely no light) and that's about it. Should I keep using veg nutes for a couple more days, or flush and start flowering nutes? Or flush and just use plain water for a week before flower nutes?

Happy Growing !!

I always throw the switch on mine for 72hrs when going to flower and then same thing 72hrs b4 harvest.. It will shorten time plant takes to go from veg to flower and increase trich production in end..

I will start my bloom food about 10 days from bloom, usually at the on- slaught of pre-flowers and floral arrangement. This is your plants way of saying, I'm ready, so that is when it begins. When they make their phisical changes, I make the nutrient changes. I grow useing raw essentials all organic. tea nutrient only I veg in soil I pre-mix before I plant. This gets them through the veg process. If i see a deficiantcy, I adjust by cold brewing a tea with worm castings and a tiny amount of blood meal.This happens seldomly. (Any MORE). It did take awhile to dial it in. ratio wise. Still much easyier to deal with mistakes. And fewer of them growing this way. I will never buy a pre- prepared nute again. After learning to recognize what marijuana needs, by a plants appearance. This is in fact the simplest way to achieve awsome results,ie huge resinouse crops of tasty bud. It says something about your nutrient selections if you have to do a flush,to achieve tasty buds. Snap a leaf right before flushing taste the juices in the stem,note how chemical it tastes. Try growing in organics, do the same thing, the diffrence is night and day. no flush required or recomended!

just flip them. no fancy shenanigans needed.

I'm in total agreement with the long dark period, before bloom, 48 to 72hrs. This gives your plant a little extra "EXHALE" time before bloom begins, and will trigger a faster response to the changed photoperiod.