St.buds If you look up MICRO-GROW SOG with CFLs By Dr. Bud Green Genes
you'll find a lot of good information, but ultimately, you're right: we have to take our own conditions into consideration and figure out what's going to work best. These are my basic notes on micro-growing:
MICRO-GROWS
• Flower only plants that are healthy and happy.
• Veg plants for a minimum of 3 weeks before switching to 12/12.
• The number of weeks your plants have vegged is a bad indicator of when they are ready to flower.
• Use the height of the plant as a gauge for determining the height they will finish at.
• Know your strain and how much additional growth it will produce while flowering.
• Know your grow space limit for vertical plant height and plan accordingly.
• Choose a growing method that works for your vertical space limitations.
• Create an even canopy by pruning, training, and rotating your plants.
• The size and style of your grow space will ultimately determine the tallest possible plant height. From this you can deduce the tallest height to begin flowering.
GWE: A cannabis plant will only grow vegetatively for the first few weeks of life; stick to 18/6 light sched.
When forcing your cannabis to flower early, plants will stay small and spend almost all their energy on producing flowers/buds on what few stems they have, instead of growing tall or making more colas/nodes.