To vegetate longer or not? this is the question

first time grower here, I was wondering since my plant has a lot of affected leaves, some of them are nutes burn and some of them stomato clogs and caused the plant to suffocate and cant breath due to spraying neem 3 times within 3 days, now the plant is about 30cm tall but alot of the leaves looks like fucked up, does it mean i should vegetate longer or i can switch to flowering whenever i want since it has been in vegetating phase for more than a month ? nutes burn was first then neem spraying problem, and my 2nd question is, will the affected leaves flower or i should automatically forget about them and they're useless now? i mean some of them are pretty big leaves, some them have minor nutes burn/stomato clog and some of them have minor ones
thanks in advance for any helpful reply

Id wait till they get green cuz the stress but If they get to big you will have a hell of a time flowering
why would u spray that much neem is a good second question u only need to do it once a week unless u got something. neems a better preventative than a cure tho

Leaves don't flower. They provide the plant with nutrients throughout the grow. As far as spider mites go lose the neem oil. Grab a hot shot no lest strip $7 walmart or ace hardware and hang it near the girls. Youll have no more problems there.

From my experience if shes not growing vigorously then she won't flower vigorously.

What soil do you use? Pot size?

Can you get them outside, if you can flush them real good get all that poison out of them, let them have fresh air, repot into bigger container with great soil. And let them absorb as much sun light as posable.. Let the wind bend and flex them.. And veg as long as posable you can always top them to keep them at the desired height. good luck///

actually there wasn't any spider mites, i was using the neem as a preventative but seemed like i didn't know how to use it and sprayed the plant everyday, it's in hydro, Aerogarden system, 1 GALLON REZ , i dont know what is vigorous and whats not but 2 days ago it was 22cm tall, today she's 28cm... and she's sucking nutes the hell out of the reservoir, EC decreases by 0.1 everyday and sometimes more than 0.1 within just one day, i also add ice cube everyday to have the reservoir temperature close to 19C so the water in the reservoir is diluted and cause the EC decrease? just a guess

Blacktophat said:

Leaves don't flower. They provide the plant with nutrients throughout the grow. As far as spider mites go lose the neem oil. Grab a hot shot no lest strip $7 walmart or ace hardware and hang it near the girls. Youll have no more problems there.

From my experience if shes not growing vigorously then she won't flower vigorously.

What soil do you use? Pot size?

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I would defiantly wait til I have got all problems fixed first before putting into flower. You want minimal stress while flowering or it will decrease your yield. And if its only a foot tall, that's another reason to keep vegging, in my experience its definatly worth being patient and getting some size about the plant before flowering. I've had shit yields off plants I've flowered at that size, making it hardly worth the effort. I say get it as big as u can before flower provided there is enough room in ur grow room. Like
I said, its defiantly worth the wait.

Not sure how you did it but, always spray right before lights off!! If you sprayed neem and lights were on for quite a while after spraying, that could be the cause of the damaged leaves! It is kinda like sunburn, I killed a whole crop cause I didn't research good luck brother man

smuzza said:

I would defiantly wait til I have got all problems fixed first before putting into flower. You want minimal stress while flowering or it will decrease your yield. And if its only a foot tall, that's another reason to keep vegging, in my experience its definatly worth being patient and getting some size about the plant before flowering. I've had shit yields off plants I've flowered at that size, making it hardly worth the effort. I say get it as big as u can before flower provided there is enough room in ur grow room. Like
I said, its defiantly worth the wait.

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thanks for your info man, i think i will keep it for more couple of weeks of vegging, i dont think i can keep it any longer though because the roots are already filling about half the reservoir so i think i should keep some room for more roots for the next 2 months of flowering :S

Waiting for someone to say get a picture...
Lol....

i did exactly what you are saying, been spraying it during the light on cycle for three days straight until i got that problem, so you are saying i should spray few minutes before the light goes off, and how many time a month? for like twice?

I took these pictures 3 days ago and forgot to upload them here lol

Nice Ol Bud said:

Waiting for someone to say get a picture...
Lol....

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now she's about 33cm long...

Every 3-4 days, and yes right before lights out! However, if it were me and with only one plant, I wouldn't bother! Just keep an eye on it, and anytime you see anything out of the ordinary, post a picture and ask!

Well healthy or not, you're doing to have to flower soon because aerogardens are made for herbs and that plants going to outgrow it fast

Clown Baby said:

Well healthy or not, you're doing to have to flower soon because aerogardens are made for herbs and that plants going to outgrow it fast

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yea i would say the same... there is not much room left for more roots, definitely will start the flowering transition feeding in 3-4 days and switch to 12/12