A good question

I will be starting my first grow soon, but I am perfecting the answers to a few questions and this is one of them. I read in the growfaq that cannabis doesn't begin to flower until the night cycle becomes longer than the day cycle. Now since I will be growing indoors, I will have complete control of the climate, light cycles, nutrients, etc etc. Does this mean I can run the plant in veg state as long as I want without having to worry about the plant dying? Or is there a certain point in time to where it becomes too late to start the flowering stage?

yes you can keep a plant in veg state for ever if wanted as long as you keep the light on 18/6 or 24 hrs. but i keep a mom for about 12 weeks and just grow one of her clones to replace. Peace

Ok that clears it up for me, because I am planning on keeping it fed great and giving the right nutrients until it is at a size that I feel is fit.

just remember that if you do plan on flowering your plant - it may triple (or more) in size once you switch to 12/12.

Hmm, didn't know that =P

Thanks,
Chris

And it's better to start a few plants just incase the one is a male. Your looking at a 50/50 chance with just one.

Hank.

yeah, I was planning on starting otu with 2-4 plants. I can't help but feel that I have read or overheard somewhere, that there is something you can do during the plants life to change it's sex?

Optimal growing conditions will make more females than males. Stress will often create more males. So if you just have consistently good temps, humidity, light cycle, etc. you should (hopefully) get a good female to male ratio. And yea you can keep a mom for years if you want to. Good luck.

I heard somewhere that interupting the night cycle with some brief light may give you more females. But i never did this in fear of getting a hermie. Just go by the book and all should be well.

Hank.

email468 said:

just remember that if you do plan on flowering your plant - it may triple (or more) in size once you switch to 12/12.

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wait a second... triple?? do you think a 1 foot plant is good to start flowering? or maybe wait for 2 feet?? my rom is 3x3x6.5 minus like 20 inches for the res and 7 inches for the HPS light... so i really have 5 feet to work with....

you've visited my grow journal - i started flowering when they were less than 12 inches tall (they were about 18" wide) - and now the shortest one is over 37" so they all more than tripled. Granted it is a sativa-heavy strain but they would have gotten taller if they hadn't overgrown right into the light.

I visited yours? I don't really remember, but yeah, thanks for that, I plan on making it grow thick and wide not tall, and then letting it go wild during flowering.

Blondie, you should probably flower at 1 foot in that case. You could probably go 1.5 ft with an Indica-dominant strain (maybe even 2 ft but that'd be risky). They definitely can triple...Sativas can triple, Indica is more like double, from what I've heard.

I thought that after a certain amount of time (the amount of time being dependent on the strain) that flowering would occur regardless of what light schedule you have.

tokensmoke said:

I visited yours? I don't really remember, but yeah, thanks for that, I plan on making it grow thick and wide not tall, and then letting it go wild during flowering.

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sorry tokensmoke! was talking to blondie!

Everready said:

I thought that after a certain amount of time (the amount of time being dependent on the strain) that flowering would occur regardless of what light schedule you have.

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If you think about it for a moment, how could that be true? We indoor growers are fooling the plant and we are pretending to be Mother Nature. In nature, plants veg in long light cycles during the spring and summer when there is 18 hours of light each day. Flowering is induced in the Fall when there is only twelve hours of daylight.

So, to answer your question, a cannabis plant will veg for as long as you leave the lights on 18 hours a day.

Vi

I think the plant would just die or be unhealthy after keeping it a long, long time (but I'm talking over 5 years). People keep mothers for 3 years pretty often, and I'm sure much longer than that has been done.

You can grow a 12ft tree if you wanted

You can grow a 12ft tree if you wanted

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-give an intrigued smile- hmmmm

As for all the help, thanks guys, I really appreciate it! Rep for all who gave me answers before this post!

EDIT: -sigh- when I hit 100 posts, I will give you all reps, -runs off to write down names-