when to flower?

My plant is about 1.5 feet tall and its just from bagseed, am i able to flower if is want or do i have to wait until it matures?

lol...hope you have some room for it to flower in...plants when going into flowering will double even tripple in size. You can induce flowering now if you want. Generally you want to look for preflowers and that the nodes are starting to interchange...meaning that they don't grow exactly oppisite each other, they will look staggered, that usually means the plant is mature enough to start flowering.

thanks man, do you know where i could see a picture of what your talking about?

Here is my plant. Notice that the nodes are differently placed along the stem. Too bad this sucker was a male...it was a very nice plant.

definitely start to flower! I am in my 10th day of flowering my ladies are pushing 18" already they all started to flower at max ht. of 14" so ten days, my littlest one grew 5 1/4"!

yeah is looks like it. Yeah my plant has little leaves where the stems meet the stalk. also, some if the leaves are curling very slighty around the edges. Is my PH off, or am i giving it too much nutrients?

your plants are gonna be huge

ive got room for it. but im using cfls. I have three 100 watt bulbs but they only use 36 watts a piece.

Your curling leaves mean either heat stress or nute def.

Also too...if your going to be growing with cfl's...i'd get about 5 more of those things of the size of your plant. That pic of the plant i showed you...i grew it with 7 CFL's. Look at my gallery to see it in full.

nice, how many watts were the bulbs you used? Did you get them online or something because i just bought mine from Lowes.

i had all 27W CFL's. 5 of them were what's called daylight, which is rated at 6500K, and the other 2 i had were cool white 4100K. I just bought them from Home Depot. Having a little bit of spectrum mix is good for your plants, but be sure to have more blue spectum then red when your vegging. So...let's say your going to have 6 lights...make sure that 4 of them will be 6500K and the other 2 can be either the warm white 2700K or the cool white 4100K.

When you switch to flowering get the 42W warm white 2700K cfl's, you'll want about 5 of those as well, and for good measure you can throw in a few of the bulbs you already have, but be sure to concentrate on the red end of the spectrum for flowering, so for 6 lights...make 4 2700K, and the other 2 either the 4100K or the 6500K...i'd say if you had both those spectrums to use 1 each...1 4100K and 1 6500K.

yeh ive thought about that. But none of the bulbs i bought indicated the light spectrum. One is pretty flat white but the other two have kind of a yellowish light.

hps alllll day

yeah i know, i just dont have the money or a way to effectively vent the heat created.

Usually they will say warm white...cool white...or daylight on the package. My cfl's even have the spectrum rating on the ballast itself, as well as white "colour" they are...being cool white and daylight.

Here's a pic of one of the lights with the colour rating on it.

well im pretty sure i have the right bulbs, so i guess now all i have to do is wait until i can determine the sex.

homegrownboy said:

Usually they will say warm white...cool white...or daylight on the package. My cfl's even have the spectrum rating on the ballast itself, as well as white "colour" they are...being cool white and daylight.

Here's a pic of one of the lights with the colour rating on it.

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how much are those lights?

A pack of 2 were 9.99 of the cool white, and the daylights were 12.99...i live in Canada also, so things where you live...assuming the US...will be cheaper.

Ive read everywhere and havent seen anything that mentioned clusters at the upper internodes. figure this probably isnt a good thing?

homegrownboy said:

A pack of 2 were 9.99 of the cool white, and the daylights were 12.99...i live in Canada also, so things where you live...assuming the US...will be cheaper.

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At wal mart not too long ago they were selling 3 26W daylights 6500k for 9.99 and 26 w soft whites somewhere around 1500-1750 lumens for 74 cents. It was tight.