Early Flowering

[Ganja90]

So I'm just starting a new grow, and I need help. I am hoping to get bud as soon as possible as I want to try it. Is there any way I can grow the plant to my desired height even if its a foot and it then switch lighting and get it to flower?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

[d4rpa.]

If your indoors like it sounds like you are, you can grow it to your desired height on a vegetative lighting schedule. When you want to flower you can put it to 12 hours a day of light 12 hours of darkness a day (using a light timer). The plant will grow twice it's height at this point, so if your optimum height is 1 ft then you want to start flowering at 6 inches.

Thats all assuming your indoors of course.

[Ganja90]

Ok thanks, yes I am growing indoors. What are the hours for vegetative lighting? (ex: 18 dark 6 light)

[knifetish]

In an ideal setting 24 hours of light is best. If your using hps 18:6 is good for the cooling and saving electricity. If you got flos though, it will grow a lot slower by not getting in the 24 hours of lighting. I stepped mine up to 24 instead of 18 and noticed a small difference. Plus I think cutting off the 24 hour light the plants are used to and having them in the dark for the very first time in a month makes the turn around time a lot quicker. This is all theory mind you.

[stiky dodo dumb]

d4rpa has the idea but the facts are that after switching your schedual from vegg to flower (24/0 or 18/6 to 12/12) your plants will continue to grow 50%-200% larger as they flower.
-Got that straight out of Sept. issue of high times-

now you can use low stress techniques and tie down branches as they grow, or even tie the whole plant to one angle and let it bush out. tieing the stems to holes or something in the brim of the pots their grown in so their horizontal instead of sanding straight up. as time passes the plant will naturally reach toward the lights, tieng them back will allow parts of the plant that would otherwize be shaded to have a better chance of fruit set.

you could also cut the top growth off just above the last node you'd want to have, carfull not to snip ANYTHING als the the little tiny growth atop the plant. its actually quite easy to go past the node and stip a leaf or two in the prosses.
topping the plant like this will ultimatly stop vertical growth and divert energy to the lateral branches. soon enough the plant will bush out and end up with a few tops that might get to your desiered hight, or els you could tie theas reamning branches down and so on and so forth.

[stiky dodo dumb]

In an ideal setting 24 hours of light is best. If your using hps 18:6 is good for the cooling and saving electricity. If you got flos though, it will grow a lot slower by not getting in the 24 hours of lighting. I stepped mine up to 24 instead of 18 and noticed a small difference. Plus I think cutting off the 24 hour light the plants are used to and having them in the dark for the very first time in a month makes the turn around time a lot quicker. This is all theory mind you.

well in theory the small period af darkness allows the plant to heal itself and take care of any stesses its had, some mother palnts are kept on 24 hours of light cause folk cant afford to have their mother plants bud when they need clones. im not saying that the extra 6 hours of darkness would induce flowering but when you need clones its better safe then sorry.

Ganja90- if you want to budd in a hurry you can sprout the seed on 12/12 and end up with however small a plant youd like, vegg tiem allows the plant to grow out increasing hight, yeald, and time till harvest. you can fairly much do whatever you like, you mimicking nature hear.

[Gärtner]

So I'm just starting a new grow, and I need help. I am hoping to get bud as soon as possible as I want to try it. Is there any way I can grow the plant to my desired height even if its a foot and it then switch lighting and get it to flower?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Mainly the height of the plants depends upon the breed, or the clone,, The baby resembles the mother, But if you would like to have more height, its upon the nutrition and the light cycle...