Finishing Faster Than I Should

I'm an experienced indoor grower who kicks out 4-5 grows a year. My grows almost always finish flowering much sooner than the guidelines that come with the beans suggest. Example -- I just finished a grow of 8 different strains, mostly Attitude freebies, and all but one strain finished flowering a week to 2 weeks faster than advertised. The 3 autos finished a week early and they had 12/12 lights the last 4 weeks! The Kushage and S.A.G.E. (!) finished 2 weeks early.

I use a 1000W. light and have the pots elevated close to the light until near harvest. I water every day with the older plants getting 24 ounces of nute water a day. When flowering I employ a homemade CO2 generator -- a gallon jug with yeast and sugar. I use a 30X 'scope to watch the trichomes and harvest when I see gold tris and brown pistils. I know when to harvest and am not cutting them down early.

So, what factors I'm using are responsible for such rapid growth and development? My guess is that daily nute water comes closest to reproducing the constant flow methods used in hydro set-ups. Hydro is faster because the roots get near-constant feeding, right?

Any other suggestions as to why I'm so speedy?

BigSteve

I think you need to do an entire grow journal of your next grow with pics and all the details my friend...so that I can sub and watch closely

im with massah on this one get a journoul going!

Tell us your secrets to speedy harvests. Id like to see a journal

Hey bro, do you use nutes with a lot of sugar/glucose?? or do you add your own sugar? this will make plants flower faster.... your homemade co2 generator is also helping expedite the process! =) hope this helps clear things up.