CA MTN MAN
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Looks fine to me. If they are in flower they sure aren't more than a week in so you should be alright
Yep, they turned into flowering stage not more than a week. Can I use them to make my clones? I can't wait to plant outside...especially after watching a video on Youtube today. Nature's power is too gorgeous to believe.Looks fine to me. If they are in flower they sure aren't more than a week in so you should be alright
Today the sunrise and sunset time is 06:01 a.m. and 19:16 p.m. respectively, plants still need to be processed indoors.As long as hours stay above 14
Since youIs it means my project to plant them outside will make no sense because no matter what I do, definitely they will flower?
I'm searching for materials to buy on the web now, really need your expertise, this is the first time for me to grow 12/12 photoperiod strains.
Howzit kkhhaadd? That's kind of a lot to go through, but I'll try to help. First off, I don't think your plants are flowering especially if they're under 24 hour light and they're not autos. I'm pretty sure those are just pre-flowers and totally normal once plants get around 2 months old.What should I do now? Please help, it's pretty tough for me to handle it. Those two plants are under 24 hours in order to stop early budding. It works with it, I haven't seen more pistils appear so far.
1.Should I mimic the natural day light hours as quickly as possible? How long should I decrease per day? And what's the appropriate time to transplant them outside? BTW my latitude is 28.3 in northern hemisphere, the longest day hour is in summer solstice, no more than 15 hours.
2.I have another two plants in seedling stage, I put them on my window sill when the dark night coming and put them under the LED grow light after I wake up, they receive the light at the time of sunrise. The light hours they've received is nearly as long as the natural light hours. It won't be influenced like the older two plants, right?
3. Next year if I'm still going to plant outside, what should I do? Just sowing seeds in the fields? In my place the early spring is always cloudy and rainy, that means there is not doubt that the plants will be spindly growing.
The two bigger plants are Critical Kush and Critical+, the other younger girls are Blue Cheese and Cheese.
I appreciate your help! If my dream come true, you'll be my benefactor!
Howzit kkhhaadd? That's kind of a lot to go through, but I'll try to help. First off, I don't think your plants are flowering especially if they're under 24 hour light and they're not autos. I'm pretty sure those are just pre-flowers and totally normal once plants get around 2 months old.I forgot to mention; probably the best resource on growing in the tropics I've found on the internet is oldhaole's grow journals. His first two or three seasons are/were on cannabis.com and the rest are on icmag. He's been growing here for 40 years and shares a lot of good info in his journals. And he's a good writer and a cool dude. You should read through them; you'll learn a lot.
Thank you, I need time to digest. I will visit those sites later.I forgot to mention; probably the best resource on growing in the tropics I've found on the internet is oldhaole's grow journals. His first two or three seasons are/were on cannabis.com and the rest are on icmag. He's been growing here for 40 years and shares a lot of good info in his journals. And he's a good writer and a cool dude. You should read through them; you'll learn a lot.
With day lengths like that why bother vegging just run from seed straight outdoors and keep popping beans every 2 weeks or so. As the plants reach maturity they'll go straight into flower. You won't get huge plant (just plant more) but you will get to continually grow and harvest almost year round if temps permitHello,
I live in Jamaica, 18° N, At the moment I am growing my plants on the roof where they can catch sun from about 7am until 4pm and I placed lights above it so i can keep them growing without going into flower. I have some experience with growing indoor or outdoor conditions for the Netherlands, but these conditions are new to me. so far my first Jack Herrer went straight into budding, never reached higher then 15cm from the soil. After that i relocated my plants and made sure there was light above them in the evening until midnight (sun comes up at 6am). right now I have 1 Silver Haze, 2 Jack Herrer, 2 NY Diesel and 1 Super Skunk growing. biggest challenge so far is finding good Nitrogen food and/or root development food (this weekend I am making my own compost tumbler so I can feed my plants this compost mix of: green leafs, vegetable/fruit peals and bat manure). My plants grow so slow!! The sun is great during the day, for the remaining 5 to 6 hours of light I use 2 Philips T8 Fluorescent lights. I started to use this just because I wanted to stop them from flowering, now I am thinking about getting better lights and use the additional 6 hours of artificial light to actually improve the grow. any suggestions on what lights to use? i saw CFL 23Watt with 6500K 2100 lumens in the 'home depot' of Jamaica.
I am very happy to finally find some more information about growing with the short daylight hours, great to hear from growers who grow in these latitudes with sun and high temperatures all year round with no longer then 13 hours of sun in a day, etc.
Happy Growing everybody!
I was really hoping on creating some nice big trees, thats why i started vegging under a light outside. if I just run them from seed to outdoor and flower as soon as they are mature as you say, how big can i expect them to be, and how much would i gain from a normal size plant? will it effect the quality of the bud when it kind of skips the vegging stage like that?With day lengths like that why bother vegging just run from seed straight outdoors and keep popping beans every 2 weeks or so. As the plants reach maturity they'll go straight into flower. You won't get huge plant (just plant more) but you will get to continually grow and harvest almost year round if temps permit
Wouldn't effect the bud quality. To gain the same amount as growing a tree just grow a few extra plants. Will probably get to around the 2-3 foot mark by the end of flowering. Why don't you give both a go and compare them. It's going to take a lot of room and time indoors for you to grow trees with those light hours. Most people growing trees outdoors receive upwards of 14.5 hours of light on the Summer solsticeI was really hoping on creating some nice big trees, thats why i started vegging under a light outside. if I just run them from seed to outdoor and flower as soon as they are mature as you say, how big can i expect them to be, and how much would i gain from a normal size plant? will it effect the quality of the bud when it kind of skips the vegging stage like that?
Thanks for feedback
Thanks!Wouldn't effect the bud quality. To gain the same amount as growing a tree just grow a few extra plants. Will probably get to around the 2-3 foot mark by the end of flowering. Why don't you give both a go and compare them. It's going to take a lot of room and time indoors for you to grow trees with those light hours. Most people growing trees outdoors receive upwards of 14.5 hours of light on the Summer solstice
We had a afghan kush cut that would produce a pound of rock hard buds at 3 ft .Wouldn't effect the bud quality. To gain the same amount as growing a tree just grow a few extra plants. Will probably get to around the 2-3 foot mark by the end of flowering. Why don't you give both a go and compare them. It's going to take a lot of room and time indoors for you to grow trees with those light hours. Most people growing trees outdoors receive upwards of 14.5 hours of light on the Summer solstice
Can you send me some of those beans pleaseWe had a afghan kush cut that would produce a pound of rock hard buds at 3 ft .
Yep that's what I would do. Personally I wouldn't top them, just let the plant do its thing naturally. But if your going to pop beans and very few weeks or more than one plant at a time top one and compare it to an untopped plant.Thanks!
Just to summarize your suggestion of growing; this would be straight from seed, from day 1 until harvest, outside with no added lights? with transplanting when needed but keep growing on the same spot under the same conditions? Would it still be a good idea to top the plant? Or will this only cause the grow to slow down?
Yep that's what I would do. Personally I wouldn't top them, just let the plant do its thing naturally. But if your going to pop beans and very few weeks or more than one plant at a time top one and compare it to an untopped plant.
I decided to test both growing theories.Around 9 deg and 17N 11:28 shortest day and 12:47 longest day. Plant more plants or start vegging them under artificial light indoors tent, room, whatever then put them outdoors. Plant more plants works fine, and step them up, starting in a cup, 1 gallon, 5 gallon, 10 gallon...++++. I start in cups and finish in 5 gallons but I am not in the ground. More roots=more fruits
Just remember that water and electricity don't mix so make sure you water proof it. If you aren't worried about people seeing the light during the night I'd just leave the box open for sunlight. The beauty of growing this beautiful plant is that there are so many different ways to do it. Just keep experimenting until you find a method that suits you.I decided to test both growing theories.
- I will start new seeds outdoor on my roof and all i will do is water/feed them and transplant them from 1L pots to 4Gal pots to maybe a 10Gal pot depending on how they grow.
- At the same time I will also start new seeds under 3 or 6 CFL's with 23compact wattage with 6500K, 2100 lumens. What I am planning to do is make a growbox but have 1 side open which will give it air to breath and also natural sunlight. the other 3 insides of the box i will paint white and will try to figure out a way to attach the lights to the 'roof' of the box with chains. I might make a board that i can put against the opening when it gets dark, this way the light will be mostly kept inside the box.
I would love some feedback about what you guys think of having a grow box where 1 side is open, just to be clear; this box will be outdoors on my roof.