just wondering, is there any strains that finish in 6-7 weeks of 12-12.

if not whats the quickest you know of a plant becoming ready for harvest.

my 1st harvest was chopped at 9weeks and 1 day of 12-12 and now looking back i wish i had given them a bit longer.

i read most strains are 8-10 weeks.. but barring the ryder/autoflowerers is there anything thats real quick?

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p.s whats the quickest harvest you've pulled off and what strain was it?

Anything really indica dominant, possibly Afghani ?

I have just sprouted some afghani, with the intention of harvesting before christmas.

These are supposed to be 7-8 weekers

Euforia from DP is meant ot be a 76-7 weeker...but from what i seen its normally 8.

Hash Plant is meant to be 45 days but i have my doubts from what i hear.

Seed packs always say it will be ready before it really is.

My quickest...would be White Russians, 3 weeks to show their sex then I believe they were ready just after 7 wks.. May have been a fluke but they are always quite quick for me..

Ms Powerband

Early Queen from Mr Nice has some early finishing phenos, around 7 weeks for some.

a week or two really isnt that much in the grandscheme of things is it mate? I had a really nice blueberry that was done in 8, go for that or northern light or skunk no1 and you'll get a nice smoke thats easy to grow and finishes right enough, i was aiming for finishing in 8 weeks when i first started and that attitude did more harm than good to my first few grows, ive kinda relaxed now to the point where im chopping them when i think they are ready rather than to a time scale. (1 even managed to change my potting up early 'problem' into lazy arsed pot up late )

heard a lot of folks saying that Whiteberry from Paradise Seeds is a rapid flowering plant theres a few diarys on here.
im sure Oliwog said his finnished in 45 days

best weed i ever smoked was picked in a 3rd world country with no idea how many weeks in just some nice white hair bud! but i thhink some oLd earliies may do? maybe/? PERSIONALY 678 WEEKS aint much init but indicas mateeeeeeee! or true performing landrace frome equatore 12-12.

purple wreck m8

VERY fast flowering

8 weeks though

i will second that ive got some on the go at the min and im week 7 on monday and they are well ready for the chop i could have got away with flushing on the 6 week i didnt realise that they was a fast flowering plant kind of took me by surprise as my other strains are not as far forward and im in a bit of a situation flush the lot or chop the ones ready without flush.

i think what possibly causes confusion, is that some dutch growers and breeders start counting flowering days from the showing of pistils and not the first day of 12/12, and call the stretch period - fast vegetative growth. and then publish flowering periods like 45 days, whether that's the case for that particular strain i don't know? but i have a dutch friend who assures me that flowering starts at the showing of pistils and not 12/12, he wont have it any other way

Good point, Scraglor.

As for flowering speed, surely that only means something of value if the yield is included in the equation. Just as you don't want a strain to take too long during flowering because it decreases productivity, you also don't want to swap it for a quicker strain if yield is decreased at the expense of speed. What you're really after then is the strain that yields the most bud in the shortest possible time. Yield alone and speed alone mean little. Yield/time = productivity. Now that actually means something.

Big bud probably yields really good and quickly too, but if it's a shit smoke then it's a waste of time isn't it!

Quick strains are fine for commercial growers who probably never even smoke there own weed, but for percy growers surely the quality of the herb is a better reason to grow something. It's always a nice surprise to have something flower quick i know, especially if you are desperate for a smoke, but i wouldn't base my grow on something just because it's fast flowering.

I don't think 8 weekers are that uncommon but i'd really like to know what these 7 weekers are like that people mention, is there a cloudy trichome in sight?

Contradiction in terms? Made me chuckle.

weedio

i know m8

thats wot weed does 2 ya

but i think wot i meant was that it ACTUALLY takes 8 weeks as opposed to most strains which normally take longer than stated on the packet

early durban finished for me in 7 weeks from 12/12 ,


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BOG claims that both his BOGbubble and Bogglegum finish within 7 weeks, I've also read a few grow reports that support his claim. If you want something a bit less couchlocky and more uplifting, Joey Weed (as well as some grow reports again) claim their Apollo 11 and C99 F2's will be done in 50 days. All these strains were stocked by British Columbian seed banks last I checked, you'll have to do some Googling.

C4 from Chimera, very good plant, ak47 like high and potency...some phenos finish in 6-7 weeks, most big yeilders finish around 9 weeks 12/12.

Apollo 11, 7-8 weeker.
Got to try whiteberry sounds nice.

The only way to get something finishing in under 7-8 weeks is to use PGRs, like Bush Master, Phosphoload or Rox. They'll cut about 2 weeks off of flowering without decreasing yield, although you can't trust that the buds won't be tainted with the nasty chemicals, even if you stop using them before flowering.

Early Wonder Skunk

Mostly Indica.
The development of this strain began back in the 70's. The goal was to mature the bud in the heat of the summer, with the potential for two crops a year.The breeding stock was Afghani/Thai for the strong THC, a Hawaiian/Guatemalan for the earliness of the harvest and a Ruderalis for the dense buds and the consistency of the ripening time. Its medium to dark green with a main dominant cola. She has a hashy, skunk smell and sweet skunk flavour. This strain will treat you with the earliest bud ever.

Height 3 to 4 feet
Flowering time 5 to 6 weeks
Harvest outdoor July 21 to Aug 30
Yield 4 to 6 oz.


Course that may all be bollocks fastest strain ive found on the net from a breeder though...If i could be fucked to get it shipped from maple leaf country i might be able to prove/disprove that info.

That's a semi-autoflowering strain, like Mighty Mite and Guerilla Gold. I presumed that the thread starter wouldn't want anything semi auto if he didn't want fully autos like LR. If I thought that he was open to the idea of using semi autos then I would have said Mighty Mite and Guerilla Gold, never heard of Early Wonder Skunk but it could be thrown in there too. They all contain ruderalis, which gives them a semi auto characteristic. Semi auto meaning that they are atleast partially dependent on light cycle but will start to flower after about six weeks of veg, if the hours of light are below say 18 hours. Unlike true autos, they can be cloned aswel. Some phenos will remain indefinately in veg when held under 24 hour light.

i'd be very wary of short flowering strains. i don't know what strain it was but my friend's ex-dealer used to grow real cup winning quality stuff, he then switched to a quicker flowering strain and it was proper shit - just gave a headache although it looked and smelt the nuts - i never got of him since

yea they did finish in 47 days it was, i could maybe have given a few days extra but they didn't need it.
the breeder states 50 days, i reckon if grown in coco i could've got em done fully in 45 days,
nice frosty bud to. quit big juicy calyxes an a relatively high bud to leaf ratio, but the flavor wasn't amazing it was a bit hashy an a bit fruity but quit a knockout bud.
i've got a skunk1 on the go which is probably ready for the chop now at 7 weeks to the day of flowering but the other skunk1 needs another 5 days at least. i'm using coco this time so i always find flowering is speeded up a bit.
but yea the whiteberry was defo the fastest all round i've done. an a good yield an smoke to. i think i may have put a couple pics in my album,

I think my fastest sk1 (sensi) was done in 59 days which i thought was quick, but that was properly done (amber trics) and a very stoney stone

Why would coco speed up flower time?

i always count the days not from first pistols but from when the first buds appear at the tips of my branches usualy a week after the first pistols apear

i dunno it jus seems to speed up growth a bit like hydro does not by a huge amount only usually 5 days if that maybe week if your lucky. dont really know why it does jus they always take longer when ive grown in soil.

ak48 and a black domina pheno i have (so it must be out there) and voodoo have all finished in 7 weeks for me