Photos can finish in 70-80 days from seed.I've got some really good photo strains but I'm hooked on growing autos lol I cant seem to Breakaway from them...! Maybe one day I'll do some photo runs. I've got some Blue dream, Moby dick, X MK Ultra and Gorilla glue [HASHTAG]#4[/HASHTAG] and a bunch of other photos in my seed stash... I been growing autos for so long that the thought of going through long flowering process with photos make me not want to do any lol
You need an early finisher.
Most indicas will finish in 60-65 days so just fill up your tent with clones as many as you can fit in there and voila ... Straight to 12/12..
With the thought of starting to prep up your mom asap... Pop some seeds from a quick strain uve got there.. choose the one with most vigorous growth when 21-30 days old (look for stem width, side branching, amount of leaves (too many leaves just mean more defoliations..) of course u do all that in your auto tent 20/4 or whatever.. then u could keep vegging the mamas clones in the auto tent just make sure to shade them from the hid / strong leds until they get to 3rd node then they can def handle 600w mh / hps or an equevelant led @ 100cm away.. also you could veg them out the tent in solo cups for 2 weeks then move em back inside theres plenty of way for a prepretual grow just need to schedule it up right. Can be done with one tent easily. Including a week for drying inside the tent..
So then wheb ur about finishing ur autogrow u start taking clones... Then veg out the tent with cfls... While the buds are drying up in the tent... 7 days dry done.. clones rooted or even started growing.... Give them 1-2 weeks under strong veg light and flower... This way, 9 plants will cover a 120*120 tent (4*4).
So yea its not 70-80 days more like 120 for the entire proccess but if u prep it up while other grow is happening you lose no time... And a clones grow.. thats a dream brother just set & forget
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