The 12-12 From Seed Thread

mantiszn

mantiszn

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Think it's just down to genetics.
Had some show as early as 12 days, others have taken 5-6 weeks
Reckon average is about 3 weeks, that's just showing sex though not actually flowering.
Had one lot that showed after 2 weeks but didn't start flowering properly until about week 5



Endur0xX said:
Nice work she is fast!! It always seems to take me longer to get the flowers
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Endur0xX

Endur0xX

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I could get them to mature faster if I was to use a bunch of bottled stuff... But I prefer to keep it simple and not burn anything, plain promix at the start I dont use any roots booster and whatnot , I am surprised though, as early as 12 days!! at day 12 I can barely tell mine are marijuana plants hehe
 
mantiszn

mantiszn

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Those were exceptions to the rule, I was shocked to see pistils that early myself.
dont usually give them anything for the first week, by week two its usually a bit of oranic rhiz.
Coco = hydro though .. Soil always seem to take a bit longer. Worth the wait for taste though.. usually..


Endur0xX said:
I could get them to mature faster if I was to use a bunch of bottled stuff... But I prefer to keep it simple and not burn anything, plain promix at the start I dont use any roots booster and whatnot , I am surprised though, as early as 12 days!! at day 12 I can barely tell mine are marijuana plants hehe
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Endur0xX

Endur0xX

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Puffenuff was growing in coco for the led party cup competition and he was the first one to show sex, the first one to harvest, by far!! I didnt realise coco was so close to hydro, dont you think you can have similar than soil as far as taste goes?
 
oneyejacks

oneyejacks

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Yeah thanks Enduro, I am trying to do this better the third time with more light and proximity but we will see. The indica leaning strain I am growing has shown sex about 3 days behind (both planted at the same time). Ill try to get a pic of the indica in the morning...
 
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cletusboost

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Thanx again. I've been through all 900+ pages. Awesome! ? though, do yall run hps from the start? Thats where im at now and they seem to get to tall to fast. To the point of not being able to hold their own weight. I know this is all 12/12fs and thats what I'm doing. I have a dual spec 400 watt hps. I'm I going wrong somewhere? Oh! 800+ pages took a few days 2 get through it all, so 900+ 800+ whats the dif eh!
 
mantiszn

mantiszn

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I do like te way soil bud tastes, but for me the benefits of coco outweigh the sacrifice of a bit of earthy taste. The growth and vigor just dominates.
IMO coco is kind of like soil and hydro's love child.. best of both worlds.

Coco is technically classified as hydro though, because the medium is inert.

Endur0xX said:
Puffenuff was growing in coco for the led party cup competition and he was the first one to show sex, the first one to harvest, by far!! I didnt realise coco was so close to hydro, dont you think you can have similar than soil as far as taste goes?
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Hi Cletusboost, what is the difference between your day (lights on) and night (lights off) temps? A good way to control stretch is to minimise fluctuation from your day to night temps.
There's a good article here:

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1536.html

Also lamp height is important, if the lamp is too far the plants will stretch for the light, its good to have adequate cooling to keep the light close enough to the plants to minimise this

it could just be down to genetics, last plants were Tahoe OG's were stretchy as hell.. temp control didn't help :( its just how they are.

cletusboost said:
Thanx again. I've been through all 900+ pages. Awesome! ? though, do yall run hps from the start? Thats where im at now and they seem to get to tall to fast. To the point of not being able to hold their own weight. I know this is all 12/12fs and thats what I'm doing. I have a dual spec 400 watt hps. I'm I going wrong somewhere? Oh! 800+ pages took a few days 2 get through it all, so 900+ 800+ whats the dif eh!
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cletusboost

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Thanx brother! Well I have my light in a dresser, which I've calculated to be about 4sq feet. Its alot of light for the space , but I didn't see that as a bad thing. I have a 220cfm fan blowing through a home made cool tube. Day time temps are high at 88-90* and at night about 75 ish. I would like to get the temps down, but the thing heats the whole room that the dresser is in.
 
Serial Violator

Serial Violator

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Ok I was in Spain in the last week and saw a grow shop whilst walking down the street, so popped in to check it out and got talking to the bloke in their( kind of anyway,he was Spanish and I can barely speak English) and noticed he had coco with nutes in already, basically just add water. Don't think it was the super coco I've seen on here recently but didn't think you could get nuted coco just plain because it would just drain out after the second watering or am I totally wrong and you can get coco pre nuted???
 
mantiszn

mantiszn

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smaller pots = smaller roots = smaller yield
some people in here use as large as 3 gallon with soil

you need to find your own sweet spot to suit your needs.
for me its 3-4L airpots .. which would be about the equivalent of 5-7L normal pots.

some prefer tall skinny pots.. some prefer wide low pots.
all of these have the potential to affect how your plant turns out.

scroglodyte said:
about 1.5L i'm guessing. maybe 2
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