I have a friend (growing about 5 years now) and he starts 24/0 and works his way slowly throughout the grow to 4/20. think every 1.5 weeks he shortens the day a bit. he gets pretty damn good results but as stated above work with your skillset (he has his masters in Horticulture)
This method will result in tall plants, which will not perform well under artificial lighting. Any buds more than about 600mm from the lamp will be fluffy, leafy & will be a pain to manicure for little yield. Also, this tapered lighting schedule cannot be used in a continuous harvest SoG plan such as mine.
In SoG, where clones are immediately put into 12/12 light, plants will grow in a tapering vegetative habit for the 1st 3-4 weeks, when they will shift into full flowering habit. Vegetative growth under 12/12 will halt when the plants are about 400-500mm tall roundabout the end of week 4- and the end result is stalks of tight, dense buds that are easy to manicure.
I really don't understand why people insist upon complicating things.
Hello Al,
May question is on the 14th day of the cycle you are cutting clones from the mamas, moving the newly rooted clones to the flowering room, and harvesting to make room for the new clones. Also you would have the last harvest drying for 2 week which is about right to process.. So that's 3 if not 4 things needed to be done on that 14th day
.. Can you give some insight on how you deal with this process. I am sure you have this dialed..
Thanks Al,
You're quite right- I'm busier than a one-legged asskicker every 2 weeks. However, the drying only takes 3 days in my bud dryer.
See detail
here.
Cutting a batch of clones takes only about an hour. Packing a set of pots with media takes about the same. Pots have to be washed with a 10% bleach plus a few drops of dish soap solution before re-use, but if you have about a tray's worth of spare pots, the pot-washing task can be deferred until time is less precious. However, clearing space for the new batch of clones is a bit of a challenge.
I often have to put some plants from tray 4 on the floor in the flowering room to clear space to bring in the new batch. After that, it's go-go-go on manicuring to get them into the dryer quickly before mould has a chance to get at them. It's important to keep plants pending harvest in the controlled conditions in the flowering room, where there's a dehumidifier & plenty of ventilation available to keep the outbound plants in good shape until they can be manicured.
I've long considered using some sort of manicuring/trimming machine to speed up the tedious & much hated manicuring task, which I should be doing right now as a matter of fact... but I don't like leaving any leaf at all on my buds, which is always the result from any of these machines.
