you got it budy...this turned out to be an experiment if plants had memories,....and i think they do.
a day and a half after i put it back into 12/12, i was inspecting it and noticed that there were a lot more leaves sprouting out of the corners where a new stalk or leaf would come out, much like they do in flowering......assuming that i will see a pistol by tomorrow or even some time today will prove that plants have some sort or memory
as long as you give them a memory, that is!
Ok, so what I think you are testing is whether or not a plant will pick up where it left off in the flowering process...
by that i mean (for example) if you stopped flowering at 4 weeks and removed the flowers, vegged for a while and then began flowering again... that the plant would resume flowering at the same intensity as a plant that was flowered for 4 weeks.
and you are trying to say that it "remembers" where it left off, like a human would do if he was building a boat or something.
Hate to be a buzzkill but this is preposterous. Virtually all terrestrial flowering plants have the hormone that induces flowering during the entire life of the plant. The hormone's structure is such that it's activity is directly inhibited by sunlight, which means that when sunlight hits the flowering hormone, it changes shape and will not interact with the plant (thus preventing flowering).
changing the light cycle to 12/12 simply gives the hormone darkness to do what it was created to do.
Every process in living organisms (plants AND animals) is controlled by some type of inhibition/activation mechanism that is dictated by internal or external stimuli. There is NO "memory" in the sense you are talking about. Plants have no neurological structures to support your theory.
I could go into much more detail about all of this, but that is outside the scope of this thread. Bottom line is that you are stressing your plants to hell and will probably end up with a hermy. Next time be more patient and let the plants get big enough before you start flowering. =P
