Kassiopeija
Well-Known Member
fair enough... here's a chart that may put some merrit to what I said.... (there's ample other evidence out there in my books, but lots of it is genetic...)20 weeks of life and I cut it because I couldn't keep it going. All the leaves were falling off, I needed the room in the tent, and for the most part the buds were done. I'm not saying 10/14 is all that's needed. I switched to it based on what the breeder said might help it to finish faster. Normally I wouldn't take that kind of advice but this time the source was solid but I don't have a side by side of 2 clones grown with different light schedules so I can't say if it had any effect.
to add, Cannabis can display both long-day/short-day flowering traits, as a equatorial sativa is very different than an northern indica or ruderalis....
The temp drop flower induction works... I mean, if lights just stay the same (18/6) and I drop temps to 10°C for sativa, and it begins to flower... then I up temps back to 25°C and it reveggs... this winter tested successfully... although it didn't flower long, so I don't knwo how it would've turned out, but I could see the influence, and the genetic makeup is there...
Then, if you browse alot through these forums you occasionally see folks that have these leafy type of plants that never seem to finish, "autohell - 3 months in" by Icetech, as an example... especially with automatics I get the impression some breeders created a chaotic genetic mixture, and these plants don't flower out properly but stay in an intermediate limbo somehow...
it "could" be that coldness, longer nights, ever-decreasing nights (GLR), spectrum, perhaps even hormones... could do the trick in these cases, just a guess...
and then there are those that give silly explanations because, maybe they didn't even know what they created in the first place... which, given the randomization of genes included in seed-creation, can never be ruled out completely...