SaneLawsMake4SaneSociety
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Hey all,
I have a room full of various 7 dwarf autos. They were all planted at the same time (lost the notebook, it fell into the wastewater bucket..., but its been like 9 weeks or so. They have been on 20/4 the whole time. ).
The 2 in the smallest pots are about a week away from chop, and are really small. All of the others are giant. One of these others looks ready to start flowering, but has looked that way for 2 weeks. The rest look like they are still in veg.
Unless someone with direct experience of a similar issue has a better plan, I am going to finish the 2 small ones, then start to cut the light back. I am hoping that I can induce flowering without getting all the way down to 12/12, as I hear that hurts yield a lot for autos
My thinking is based on this:
Many photo-period sensitive plants often don't need to be exactly at 12/12 to start flowering. 12/12 will definitely make any MJ plant flower, but I read somewhere that for some strains, as high as 15/9 is enough to start flowering, if not more, even. That all makes sense to me, because since cannibus is a worldwide plant, it seems very likely that some wild varieties have encountered environments in which if they wait for the light to get to 12/12, they die of cold before they get to pass on their genes. There may even be parts of the world where it never gets to 12/12. I have no clue about that last, maybe someone with some smarts can illuminate me on that, excuse the shitty joke, there....
Anyway, my hope is to lower the lights on period enough to nudge these fuckers to flowering, but to have the "on" time as high as possible within that "make these fuckers flower" limitation, so that it has the smallest detrimental effect as possible on my yield.
Anybody have any thoughts? (Anyone with actual experience on this subject especially)
I have a room full of various 7 dwarf autos. They were all planted at the same time (lost the notebook, it fell into the wastewater bucket..., but its been like 9 weeks or so. They have been on 20/4 the whole time. ).
The 2 in the smallest pots are about a week away from chop, and are really small. All of the others are giant. One of these others looks ready to start flowering, but has looked that way for 2 weeks. The rest look like they are still in veg.
Unless someone with direct experience of a similar issue has a better plan, I am going to finish the 2 small ones, then start to cut the light back. I am hoping that I can induce flowering without getting all the way down to 12/12, as I hear that hurts yield a lot for autos
My thinking is based on this:
Many photo-period sensitive plants often don't need to be exactly at 12/12 to start flowering. 12/12 will definitely make any MJ plant flower, but I read somewhere that for some strains, as high as 15/9 is enough to start flowering, if not more, even. That all makes sense to me, because since cannibus is a worldwide plant, it seems very likely that some wild varieties have encountered environments in which if they wait for the light to get to 12/12, they die of cold before they get to pass on their genes. There may even be parts of the world where it never gets to 12/12. I have no clue about that last, maybe someone with some smarts can illuminate me on that, excuse the shitty joke, there....
Anyway, my hope is to lower the lights on period enough to nudge these fuckers to flowering, but to have the "on" time as high as possible within that "make these fuckers flower" limitation, so that it has the smallest detrimental effect as possible on my yield.
Anybody have any thoughts? (Anyone with actual experience on this subject especially)