Redbeards Orange Widow. Seven weeks veg. Flipped a few days ago. Excited to see what this big beautiful lady does! She’s for sure a big genetic, eating up my four by all by herself.
All in nine weeks from popping the seed and cupping. I count veg weeks from the time they are bagged, still counting them as seedlings otherwise. Topped twice, fimmed and viola’
My scrog top stands at twenty four inches. Not unusual timing for my plants at all, I normally start flower at six to seven weeks, I was just amazed at the size and canopy of this Lady.
I can do it for you can you link the thread and give me the post number?@Aqua Man how do I delete a duplicate post? I used to have a button to do that, can’t find it now. I uploaded a pic and it did a duplicate
It’s gone, I think! Thanks tho!
Hey Zomb! Don’t know if Trader told you or not, but I dropped my iPad and shattered the screen. Have a new one now. Nine weeks max, not an unusual time range for me. I have this one cloned so the next run should be even quicker. She has a beautiful canopy on her, will update pics this eve. In answer to your question, the TS3000, has been an excellent light. As you have seen my flowers are gorgeous and the heat is a non issue. You must remember that lighting and chemical companies are a business set on selling you products. You will find through the years as I have a majority of it is hype. I set that light at sixty five percent through veg and amp her up come flower time.
Because we can play god. The DLI is much different in nature as intensity can be from 2000-130,000 lux over a day. Just ask the farmers some years are better than others. So if we manage to do well keeping the rest of factors in order we can hopefully improve the overall results… much easier said than doneI've been thinking about this lately as I do something similar - slowly ramp up intensity throughout veg and then hit 90-100% intensity somewhere around week 3 or 4 of flower. But in nature...that's not how the sun would be working. It would actually have the highest intensity/DLI during the vegetative phase and then as the months go by you would be getting less sunlight and intensity as you reach the end of flower. So why do we do it the opposite when we grow indoors?
Need smart people like @N1ghtL1ght @Moe.Red @Aqua Man @Observationist to chime in on this.
Xlent question and one to ponder. Been outside for many years with no thought to that, when I took the grow indoors I went to the vets of those grows. I just followed their direction. Old adage, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it, would apply in my case.I've been thinking about this lately as I do something similar - slowly ramp up intensity throughout veg and then hit 90-100% intensity somewhere around week 3 or 4 of flower. But in nature...that's not how the sun would be working. It would actually have the highest intensity/DLI during the vegetative phase and then as the months go by you would be getting less sunlight and intensity as you reach the end of flower. So why do we do it the opposite when we grow indoors?
Need smart people like @N1ghtL1ght @Moe.Red @Aqua Man @Observationist to chime in on this.
They are happy, I’m happy. I really suck at Mother Natures job, but I try hard! 
Simulate the climates where it grows the fastest during veg, then simulate the climate where it grows fastest during flower. Or a colder environment to see how it does there. Like one strain can be grown 100 different ways. Now is that better than nature. . Idk. . my thoughts are nature always knows more than us. Therefore we are likely to run into very complex problems. Like perhaps we lack beneficial pests that wont allow us to achieve the same results as if we had them.
Then there is the analogy of the bodybuilder. No amount of moving him from Rome to Denver to Africa will express the genetic potential they hold as a 12year old. It’s way more than just environment. Very variables. Much complex. Big puzzle. Much fun.
Id like to try grafting a mother. Wonder how a slow pheno does when bolted onto a fast pheno. I wont be using illegal steroids though.
