When does your Day 1 flower count start?

[Judge Mental]

Just curious what everyone considers day 1. Do people start counting at flip of switch? Or when buds start forming? I go with flip of switch. Interesting to see how everyone does it.

Peace

 

[schuylaar]

the flip...

 

[DCobeen]

when you flip to 12/12 if you was doing longer light time. some do 12/12 all the time so they count when it starts to flower.
Peace and love

 

[Dogenzengi]

I count from the flip, but I remember I will probably have to add the length of time of the stretch took to the end of my Flowering.

 

[Dogenzengi]

+rep DCobeen for covering the 12/12 from birth Crew.
Happy Growing,
DZ

 

[NorthofEngland]

when you flip to 12/12 if you was doing longer light time. some do 12/12 all the time so they count when it starts to flower.
Peace and love

That explains quite a lot....
Like when someone says they finished flowering in 5 weeks....?
THAT'S WHY
Counting from the buds becoming visible.

When you're Mother got pregnant with you....
Did she count it from the date of conception?
Or from when people started to notice her bump?

And, if the latter, isn't it strange that you were born after a 6 month pregnancy....
But still weighed in at 8lb 11oz ???

 

[Dogenzengi]

That explains quite a lot....
Like when someone says they finished flowering in 5 weeks....?
THAT'S WHY
Counting from the buds becoming visible.

When you're Mother got pregnant with you....
Did she count it from the date of conception?
Or from when people started to notice her bump?

And, if the latter, isn't it strange that you were born after a 6 month pregnancy....
But still weighed in at 8lb 11oz ???

LOL

Nobody wrong in this convo, just a difference in grow style.

 

[churchhaze]

I start counting after the flip.

There's no point to waiting till I see preflowers to count. What if it already has preflowers before putting into 12/12?

The reason it takes longer than the advertised time to flower is because seedbanks like to exaggerate. It has nothing to do with how they count flowering.

 

[NorthofEngland]

I start counting after the flip.

There's no point to waiting till I see preflowers to count. What if it already has preflowers before putting into 12/12?

The reason it takes longer than the advertised time to flower is because seedbanks like to exaggerate. It has nothing to do with how they count flowering.

I never mentioned seed banks OR advertising.
I was referring to the fisherman's tales of certain growers.
In cyberspace people can make any claim they feel like making.

 

[Lo Budget]

I count from the flip. But I don't flip until I see pistils, at the earliest. Never done a 12/12.

 

[jondamon]

I count my flower time as days of 12/12.

So when I say I finished plant "X" in 60 days of 12/12 it took 60 days from flipping to 12/12 to finish plant "X".

If a strain has a flowering time of 8 weeks I would xpect it to finish around 8 weeks after stretch transition slows down. So actually more like 9-10 weeks.



J

 

[Bugeye]

There is nothing to flip when you grow outside or in a greenhouse. So I start my flowering count at first sign of budding, usually late July or early August for me. Those seed company flowering times are good estimates, but estimates only.

 

[BWG707]

There is nothing to flip when you grow outside or in a greenhouse. So I start my flowering count at first sign of budding, usually late July or early August for me. Those seed company flowering times are good estimates, but estimates only.

Im glad you brought this up. I can never find a definitive answer about this. Do you start when you see buds forming on the nodes or do you start when you see buds on the very tips of the branches? My plants will always start forming buds below the tips and take a week sometimes two weeks before a bud will start forming on the tip of the cola. I think most people would start as soon as they see any buds forming anywhere. I start when I see buds on the tips. But actually this doesn't mean much at all to me because I don't use how long a plant is suppose to flower for, I use a combination of different signs, trics, swelling, etc. I only keep a count to get a general idea of flowering times for certain strains for future grows.