When should I flower

sprite87

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You will be happy you waited. I know a month seems like a long time and you really just wanna get to flower, I know the feeling! But just be patient and you will be happy you were. If you flip too early you might regret it!
 

ComfortCreator

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Be patient man. Let the ladies mature a bit and top and maybe even experiment with LST. I'm on day 73 of flower right now and it is literally teaching me them meaning of patients. Sadly my veg tent has trees in it right now waiting for this flower tent to finish.
Day 72 here lol! Same its quite a thing
 

ComfortCreator

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They look really nice.

That is a tall strain that will stretch a lot. Yours are still small so you still have control over their growth. Give up more time for more yield. Take the smallest of risks and get more yield.

It can only grow so tall before you have to flip or risk it getting too tall after stretch. With a stretchy strain you should TOP your plants. This is easy, 99% successful for a newbie who is careful. That will add a week potentially to the veg time and will give you 2 tops per plant and more side branches.... more yield.

If you wait for several new nodes to form on each, you can top again for 4 mains each. This will add up to another week, but in return will give you a much higher yield and more branching. Some LST such as tying down the mains a bit can give you a broader table like base. Another easy although stressful step for a new grower.

With a small number of plants, some training and topping is a great option. At a minimum you would increase potential yield by 2x if you top them twice.

The best news is they are already established and if you top them they will recover super fast, potentially with no delay.

If you have say 7 feet of vertical space and 2 feet is taken by lights and pots, you have 60" left. The plants can be 20" tall and still stretch to 3x original size and fit your space.
Thats how I would do it...but thats me and why this is fun. You can flip tonight and be happy too!
 

Clumpyoyster

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They look really nice.

That is a tall strain that will stretch a lot. Yours are still small so you still have control over their growth. Give up more time for more yield. Take the smallest of risks and get more yield.

It can only grow so tall before you have to flip or risk it getting too tall after stretch. With a stretchy strain you should TOP your plants. This is easy, 99% successful for a newbie who is careful. That will add a week potentially to the veg time and will give you 2 tops per plant and more side branches.... more yield.

If you wait for several new nodes to form on each, you can top again for 4 mains each. This will add up to another week, but in return will give you a much higher yield and more branching. Some LST such as tying down the mains a bit can give you a broader table like base. Another easy although stressful step for a new grower.

With a small number of plants, some training and topping is a great option. At a minimum you would increase potential yield by 2x if you top them twice.

The best news is they are already established and if you top them they will recover super fast, potentially with no delay.

If you have say 7 feet of vertical space and 2 feet is taken by lights and pots, you have 60" left. The plants can be 20" tall and still stretch to 3x original size and fit your space.
Thats how I would do it...but thats me and why this is fun. You can flip tonight and be happy too!
I haven't had any stretch over double yet. I've grown mostly Sativa's too
 

Boatguy

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I haven't had any stretch over double yet. I've grown mostly Sativa's too
That is because you stunt early in flower by defoliation. Try waiting to week 2 or 3 before any of that.
I used to deliberately stunt by repotting right before the switch and a topping shortly after. Worked well for height control in a microgrow
 

fragileassassin

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Doing my first run at a scrog. Got like 35 tops per plant, each one topped early for 4 mains.
this run i just kinda did whatever, next run i want more structure and top all 10-12 i usually do a second time at like 3 nodes and see if i can manage them still.

I haven't had any stretch over double yet. I've grown mostly Sativa's too
I had a lemon haze or lemon skunk, something like that, that did triple. Thing was a monster that would have been 10ft tall. I kept trying to tie it over and stuff but i eventually had to supercrop the hell out of it mid flower and that ended up ruining it. didnt get much off of it.
 
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