CamperDon

Good evening,

Very pretty pics of lots of sweet trich covered candy .. I wish I had the nerve to order the Chocolope from somewhere, it'd be the only way i'd get a strain like that here in cow town, Oregon. Congrats to you with such pretty flowers

Have a Great night
don

rcmn11

thanks - cute, aren't they? i brought the chocolope back with me on a trip to the UK, but i have had pretty good luck through the mail. i've had two orders picked off by the gate keepers, all they did was keep 'em and send me a note. four other shipments got through though. the guys at puresativa dot com have helped alot, they'll direct you to a reputable company. another that's worked great is gypsy nirvana. good luck!

alleycat

The logic is that is how the plants grow and work for speeding up the harvesting. They need the 12 hours of darkness, and of course some strains vary from that, but the normal is 12 hours of darkness they need to flower.

So you can't change the amount of darkness they get that makes them flower, but you need them to still go thru as many days of their normal flowering cycle, or at least the plant thinks it's going thru those many days(which it counts by dark periods), and the only way to do that is take hours away from the daylight time of flowering plants.

So you run a 20 hour day of 12 hours darkness and 8 hours of light, that saves you 4 hours each day, and every week making up 28 hours, or over one full day, so 6 1/2 weeks with a 20 hour day of flowering roughly and you can get a plant that takes 8 weeks to ripeness as if it went the full 8 weeks with a normal 24 hour light cycle. This is getting the heads to ripen, which is what gets us the different highs off the marijuana.

Now you have the speeded up flowering time for the buds with the high of flowering for 8 weeks in only 6 1/2 weeks, but those 4 hours that are missing from your light cycle will make smaller buds too remember.

Happy Growing

Alleycat

CamperDon

I just heard this evening from a card holder friend of mine just recieved some chocolope clones, he goes to Vancouver to a dispensary and picks different ones up once in awhile.. I asked if I could get a clone of one before his mice eat em he's got a mouse problem in his grow they apparently like the taste of the different varieties that he's growin.
He said sure.. Yeah

don

kawliga

Just to be sure Don, this is only in the flowering stage right

Trimming of leaves and small stems during veg does not inhibit growth IMO

Thanks

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CamperDon

yep thats the way I believe it to be

nigel

that makes sense in an indoor context. 6 .5 weeks would be good, lol

Will send my reading off on an interesting tangent; i had not considered optimal dark cycle, only from the light side.

I have worked out a sequence on a timer to achieve the light schedule you describe, however as you said it cuts time; would need to be reprogrammed every 5 to 5.5 days.

I have played with a few multi station and time schedule timing systems, watering my customers gardens. Going to have a look at who makes that stuff here.

That different strains respond to different light cycles, is interesting. Been looking into how genetics from different geographies operate differently. mj is certainly an individual.

Thanks for your input. nigel

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CamperDon

Good morning,

Oh no, does this mean I have to start looking at how the individual strains grow and what each ones requirements are.. IE light, feed length of grow/flower cycles???
Of the cloneage I have been getting Trainwreck (from seed in 2006), Blueberry, AK47, Bubblegum, Medicine Man and soon to recieve chocolope all from clone, i've never thought of them having their own schedules lol
I always thought - I'm playin "God" in my garden, I was "Mother Nature" in this enviroment I was creating for the plants to grow, my rules you follow.. Guess there' always more to it eh!

Have a Great day
don

nigel

are genetically programmed for the environment and light cycles there.

I have noticed preferences in my sativa girls, both in how they flower, what they eat, the temps they like.

i think that's why you can never say you know a strain till you have grown it a few times; got a handle on its likes and dislikes. lol nigel

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CamperDon

dang, just when I thought I have everything under control... Thanks nigel gives me more homework to do, things to look into.
Guess I should look up the different strains characteristics that I have and see if I can figure out what their requirements are.. likes and dislikes
Thanks tons buddy.. God bless

Have a Great day as always
don