Cpappa27
Well-Known Member
So let me start by telling you how these plants started. These plants in this current grow sprouted at different times, as I had some issues with some not sprouting so added more, then some took forever to sprout, and some grew super slow etc so they are kinda different ages but all were sprouted within 2 weeks of each other. Most of them are the same age, such as the Skunk 1 x NL2 by AGseeds, and many of my own crossed with GDP. I know my GDP Photo x Auto crosses some of those will flower for obvious reasons. All the Skunk 1 x NL2 and a couple of the Sensi Skunk1 are full on flowering.
These were planted on September 25th. They were supposed to go in the tent as usual after a couple three weeks, after the grow at the time finished. Well that grow, my last one, took forever. They were supposed to be 8 week strains and turned out to be 13 weekers. So all those plants that I started I had to slow them down cause I didnt have the space for them to veg for 5 more weeks. I kept them in small 4x4 square pots and solo cups half full of dirt, and watered them daily or even twice daily, under a 90 watt LED under 16/8. I managed to keep them small by keeping them in those little pots, plus I didn't stop the fungus gnats, so they slowed them down a bit too.
On September 13th I had transplanted them into their tall 5 gallon fabric pots in my supersoil and put them into the tent under 16/8. They were pretty tall and stretchy but sturdy and strong. Around September 20th I reduced the light to 15/9. About week ago I reduced the light to 14/10. Now a week later there are full on bud sets, they are stretching, the males are full on flowering. The sensi isnt flowering as hard as the AG SkunkxNL, but they also were a couple weeks behind the SkunkxNL. So now most of these are about 2 months old. The sensi are about a month and a half old.
I know that the standard says that you have to switch to 12 off 12 on to induce flowering and anything over 12 will keep them in veg, simply put. Its my belief that light duration is not the only factor in when a plant determines its time to flower or not. I think that light duration, light spectrum, environmental stressors, and age of plant all play a factor. I mean I cant explain it any other way these bitches are full on flowering under 14 hours light, 6AM-8PM
This is how I do it normally is slowly reduce the light as I get closer to flipping. Ive done it for years and none of my photos flowered under 14 hours light, which leads me to believe that its their age. Ive never had to do it like this before keeping them small for a month and a half before transplanting, so this is the only difference that I can see. They did get pretty stressed out at certain points with super high temps, or the gnats, or when I accidentally grabbed the wrong bottle and they got overfed and burned. Maybe the stress had something to do with it but I dont know. I planned on vegging these another 3 weeks and over the three weeks I would drop the light hours down slowly till I got to 12/12 and then later in flowering reduce slowly till they are under 9 on 15 off. I just super cropped them last week which sucks cause apparently thats when they decided to flip themselves into flower.
Also these plants are exhibiting strange behavior. The SkunkxNL turn their leaves sideways after about 9 hours light. These are under 3 360 watt LED lights in a 5x10. I wonder if because they were under that weak 90 watt 3 foot long led for so long that they somehow adapted to low light conditions and then when put under powerful lights it was too much? Either way I dont know whats going on but this is proof that cannabis plants flower under 14 hours light and that light duration may not be the only factor in inducing flowering.
Ill attach photos below with dates along the way up until this mornings pictures.
These were planted on September 25th. They were supposed to go in the tent as usual after a couple three weeks, after the grow at the time finished. Well that grow, my last one, took forever. They were supposed to be 8 week strains and turned out to be 13 weekers. So all those plants that I started I had to slow them down cause I didnt have the space for them to veg for 5 more weeks. I kept them in small 4x4 square pots and solo cups half full of dirt, and watered them daily or even twice daily, under a 90 watt LED under 16/8. I managed to keep them small by keeping them in those little pots, plus I didn't stop the fungus gnats, so they slowed them down a bit too.
On September 13th I had transplanted them into their tall 5 gallon fabric pots in my supersoil and put them into the tent under 16/8. They were pretty tall and stretchy but sturdy and strong. Around September 20th I reduced the light to 15/9. About week ago I reduced the light to 14/10. Now a week later there are full on bud sets, they are stretching, the males are full on flowering. The sensi isnt flowering as hard as the AG SkunkxNL, but they also were a couple weeks behind the SkunkxNL. So now most of these are about 2 months old. The sensi are about a month and a half old.
I know that the standard says that you have to switch to 12 off 12 on to induce flowering and anything over 12 will keep them in veg, simply put. Its my belief that light duration is not the only factor in when a plant determines its time to flower or not. I think that light duration, light spectrum, environmental stressors, and age of plant all play a factor. I mean I cant explain it any other way these bitches are full on flowering under 14 hours light, 6AM-8PM
This is how I do it normally is slowly reduce the light as I get closer to flipping. Ive done it for years and none of my photos flowered under 14 hours light, which leads me to believe that its their age. Ive never had to do it like this before keeping them small for a month and a half before transplanting, so this is the only difference that I can see. They did get pretty stressed out at certain points with super high temps, or the gnats, or when I accidentally grabbed the wrong bottle and they got overfed and burned. Maybe the stress had something to do with it but I dont know. I planned on vegging these another 3 weeks and over the three weeks I would drop the light hours down slowly till I got to 12/12 and then later in flowering reduce slowly till they are under 9 on 15 off. I just super cropped them last week which sucks cause apparently thats when they decided to flip themselves into flower.
Also these plants are exhibiting strange behavior. The SkunkxNL turn their leaves sideways after about 9 hours light. These are under 3 360 watt LED lights in a 5x10. I wonder if because they were under that weak 90 watt 3 foot long led for so long that they somehow adapted to low light conditions and then when put under powerful lights it was too much? Either way I dont know whats going on but this is proof that cannabis plants flower under 14 hours light and that light duration may not be the only factor in inducing flowering.
Ill attach photos below with dates along the way up until this mornings pictures.
