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mhbound said:
after you initiate flowering expect the plants to grow 2-3+ times bigger than they are now in the first 3-4 weeks of flowering, they grow like a fucking madman...So it all depends how big you want your plant.

Mother plants(the ones we take clones from) stay vegging forever..

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maryanne3087 said:

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mhbound said:
after you initiate flowering expect the plants to grow 2-3+ times bigger than they are now in the first 3-4 weeks of flowering, they grow like a fucking madman...So it all depends how big you want your plant.

Mother plants(the ones we take clones from) stay vegging forever..

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200-300% stretch is rare with plants that are vegged for a while ie 1.5 months

There's a lot of factors to determine stretch. Including but not limited to.

- Amount of vegetative time. Plants vegged for say 6+ weeks won't stretch nearly as much as seedlings/clones flowered 12/12
- Color spectrum (Red to far red ratio, blue light effecting crytochrome response responsible for elongation)
- Light intensity (in upper, lower, and inner canopy)
-Tempearure and temperature difference (between night and early morning)
-Nutrients (over abundances of N and P will cause stretching) some growers myself included will feed high N nutes to assist stretching to reach the desired height with a shorter veg time)
-Pot size, I have a haze plant in a 2litre pot that's been vegged for several months before flowering and it's only 4.5 ft tall and didn't stretch virtually at all, clones taken from this plant stretched a lot. Given root space and plenty of nutrients to "capture" the stretch clones achieve a mature height of 6ft.
-Plant growth regulators/retardants

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