2 timely questions

best light timing for cloning 18-6 or 24?

how long do you stay 12/12 after budding commences?

Many thanks in advance for lighting my bulb...

i do clones on 24, you keep 12-12 til they finish budding.

I also clone with 24 hour a day lights on, I also veg 24. You flower with 12 on 12 off until the day you cut your plants down.

I was thinking of going 18-6 somewhere near the end so I can begin to share the room sooner with new borns...no good?

ive heard that its possible but i would advise you not to try it.

I cloned hundreds of plants with just using a photoperiod of 18/6 with monumental success. When you are in the flowering stage, keep your lights on a 12/12 photoperiod till they are finished. I have seen my othe friends modify the photoperiod for instance the last few weeks prior to harvest to switch the photoperiod to a 8/16. They claim it helped their harvest but who knows without a controlled study to verify their claim it is just basically what they think occured.

And what to you considered 'finished'? All browned up? Please advise.

when about 90 percent hairs are brown or if have scope then around 50 percent of trychs amber, although it is a matter of personal taste.

Educate me...
'if have scope then around 50 percent of trychs amber'
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if you look down a scope 30 - 60 magnification you will see litte glass type bulbs on bud which start clear then go cloudy and turn amber, light to dark, when bout 50 percent are amber is a good time, will do some pics for you later, you will prob have found some pics on this site b 4 i get time.

Ah, scope = microscope or will a magnifying glass suffice?

Thanks for the time and knowledge!

While I got cha...

I'm beginning to fear the girls will out grow the grow. It stands about 5'. The light takes up room too. Think pruning the faster growing branches will keep them on the short side? Your thoughts plesae...

you could prune or try and tie them down with something.it would have to b a good magnifying glass,

p.s. you dont do pruning when in flower though, thought id better add that.

when you clone, do they already have preflowes showing? Just asking because jorge cervantes says to never flower before preflowers show and that plants kept under light 24 hr a day took significantly longer to show preflowers. I have some 18 inch plants I want to flower but no preflowers are showing.

you flower a clone as soon as you want after roots take cause its an adult already.

That is good to know!! Thanks.