thanks for the reply, I like to use veg nutes for the first two weeks as it reduces stretch apparently in early bloom, well thats what i was told. i think you maybe right though. I could have done with more stretch too as the screen is only 80 percent filled. I had an inspection on my rented apartment so had to stash the plant for 24 hours in the dark. thats why i started flowering, going back to veg might have stressed it im guessing.
Its looking good now 18 main healthy tips and a lot of small tips in the gaps. its only 2ft by 2 ft screen. My first attempt at scrog. Cant show photos from this account for some reason.
I've seen a few guys state that you wait for a couple weeks to feed bloom nutes or boosters and that's just nuts to me. When you flip your plant it goes into a rapid growth spurt, (stretch), and is busy putting in bud sites and putting out flowers while it's also growing rapidly vegetatively. It needs all nutes at higher levels to do it's best. Right after stretch is done feedin drops back to pre-flowering levels and even less.
Years back as an experiment I gave some plants more of the Bloom and a half dose of Big Bud a week before I flipped and those plants all showed flowers earlier by nearly a week and at 3 weeks had way more bud sites and each bud was noticeably larger than other buds in the same places on the other plants. At harvest time the colas were easily a third bigger and there was lots more resin on them. Since then I've always done it that way.
Leaving your veg lights going for the first couple of weeks does help limit stretch some but not a huge amount. What really makes stretch less is having lots of tops instead of just the one main cola. Un-topped plants can easily double or even triple their height where plants with many tops will often only get 50% taller by the end of stretch. That's because the plant has to split it energies to so many places instead of one main one.
24 hours in the dark then back to vegging wouldn't stress the plant at all. Get a lot of new growers worried about a one-time light screw up but it takes a few days of the same thing before the plant starts to switch from veg to flower or back again so no worries with a single event of any light change. I'm pretty neglectful and sometimes downright mean to my plants and don't run into more hermies than anyone else. If your plant were to hermie it would have anyway and that dark period has no bearing on it.
I never give the plants a day of dark before flipping. Just change the timer and not cheat them out of the 12 hours of flowering time they lose waiting a day in the dark.
If it does increase resin or THC it's negligible I think but who knows unless they do a valid scientific study and I've never seen anyone post a link to one. Another grower myth methinks.
Same with harvest time. I can't schedule specific times to get to trimming so do as much as I can when I feel up to it. I take the top third or so of the plants and leave them to let the lower buds ripen up and get a little fatter for a week or more them work on the rest. With all the plants I got now ready for harvest I better work at it a lot harder or it'll be Xmas before I'm done and I got plants waiting to get into the flower room. I hate trimming so that makes it easier to put it off but can't really do that now.
Good luck with your baby and hope it grows so much bud that you end up hating trimming too.
I have arthritis and trimming causes my hands to cramp up badly and it hurts like a bitch.
