When should I flower? Trying to scrog

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Cflbegginer

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Just wondering when I should flower? I read somewhere when canopy is 50% full but not to sure so some advice would be awesome :) cheers guys I've attached pics it's my vfirst grow. And also what do I do if I find a male? I'm having a lot of difficulties looking at preflower? And I don't want to go to flower then find out one is male and rip it out and leave all this extra scroging room :(
 

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tomascat

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u need to get a scope to look at the trychs. they go from clear, then cloudy then amber. I chop when im 10% amber
 
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Cflbegginer said:
Just wondering when I should flower? I read somewhere when canopy is 50% full but not to sure so some advice would be awesome :) cheers guys I've attached pics it's my vfirst grow. And also what do I do if I find a male? I'm having a lot of difficulties looking at preflower? And I don't want to go to flower then find out one is male and rip it out and leave all this extra scroging room :(
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I'd give them another 2 weeks of veg & then flip - as for the male q, that is the risk you take not knowing sex going into flower.
Fem'd seeds or clones are your best friend in applications like this.

tomascat said:
u need to get a scope to look at the trychs. they go from clear, then cloudy then amber. I chop when im 10% amber
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He's a good 2 1/2 months from chop.
Where'd that come from ?
 
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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I'd give them another 2 weeks of veg & then flip - as for the male q, that is the risk you take not knowing sex going into flower.
Fem'd seeds or clones are your best friend in applications like this.



He's a good 2 1/2 months from chop.
Where'd that come from ?
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Thanks mate, appreciate the help :) I'm going to make cuttings when I amdefinately sure of what the sex is.
 
Scrogmonkey

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Cflbegginer said:
Unsure of strain, and I have a 400w hps plus 2 130w watt cfls at 2700k and 25000k and 6 23w cfls placed around the outsides of plants
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OK,that should be more than enough to get a good stretch out of them then,I thought at first you was just using them tiny cfls in the pic:bigjoint:

I personally like at least 80% of my screen filled,but I have also seen people start flower as soon as the heads have touched the screen.(I did that once,and failed to fill my screen fully :dunce:),
I would certainly wait 2 weeks like the other guy says.
 
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Scrogmonkey said:
OK,that should be more than enough to get a good stretch out of them then,I thought at first you was just using them tiny cfls in the pic:bigjoint:

I personally like at least 80% of my screen filled,but I have also seen people start flower as soon as the heads have touched the screen.(I did that once,and failed to fill my screen fully :dunce:),
I would certainly wait 2 weeks like the other guy says.
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Awesome!! Cheers for the help guys!! If I find males while flowering and take them out do you think it's a bad idea to take them out and revert the lighting back to veg to fill the screen more or just deal with it and take some cuttings?
 
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Cflbegginer said:
Awesome!! Cheers for the help guys!! If I find males while flowering and take them out do you think it's a bad idea to take them out and revert the lighting back to veg to fill the screen more or just deal with it and take some cuttings?
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Switching from Veg to Flower, back to veg to fill the holes in the canopy & then back to flower will be very time consuming - they don't shift gears over night.
My recommendation would be to pull any males you find as early as possible & finish this run while taking clones. The babies can be vegging in another area while this flowering cycle finishes up.
Just the best use of time IMHO.
 
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GreatwhiteNorth said:
Switching from Veg to Flower, back to veg to fill the holes in the canopy & then back to flower will be very time consuming - they don't shift gears over night.
My recommendation would be to pull any males you find as early as possible & finish this run while taking clones. The babies can be vegging in another area while this flowering cycle finishes up.
Just the best use of time IMHO.
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Yeh okay I'll do that, can I take cuttings when it's in flower?
 
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Cflbegginer said:
Yeh okay I'll do that, can I take cuttings when it's in flower?
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Yes you can - the earlier into flower the better though.
Once you're sure your target plant is a lady take a couple of cuttings from lower branches that probably won't make it to the canopy to produce bud anyway.

This is a Double Bubble mother I cut at 8 weeks flower. She stalled as a bud for at least 4-5 weeks before deciding to work with me & send off new growth.

Double bubble Mom.JPG Double bubble Mom (1).JPG
 
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grorite

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you can take cutting whenever you want some may take longer to root. I reveg my lsd for clones every time I harvest and I get new growth in 2 weeks under one 23 watt cfl
 
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