malicifice
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Do you consider it flowering when you switch your lights to 12/12, or when you determine the sex? The difference could be 1-2 weeks.
When is it really in flowering?
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Nice Ol Bud
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I usually count it whenever I first see sex.
It makes more sense.
NoB
It makes more sense.
NoB
Ronjohn7779
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Count once you start seeing signs of flowering. It can take a week or two before it happens. So if a bank says it's a 7 week flowering add another week to 2 to that i.e. 8-9 weeks finishing (use this as an estimate). Some plants switch over in a matter of days and others take a bit more time. You'd only truly know when its ready to harvest till you check things out with a 40-60x magnifying glass.
yep, from 12/12. Though I can understand how this seems open to interpretation, if you really think it through it makes sense. The time a plant develops bracts (calyx) can vary based on conditions, and what one person defines as a pre-flower and an actual bud can vary, causing at least a few day difference in what one person might consider flowering based on ovule production. In other words if you judge flowering by bud your own values will probably be consistent, but likely would be meaningless to someone else.
12/12 is a finite event. There's no question when it happens, you can mark it down to the nanosecond if you want
This is why breeders, and pretty much anyone with experience who is conveying flower times to others, will list flower times as when they switched to 12/12.
Kerovan is right. There is a hormone that the plant produces which will cause a switch to flower. This hormone degrades almost immediately by light. A 12 hour dark period will allow enough of this hormone to collect and induce flowering. The first night of a full 12 hour dark period induces this and biologically the plant enters a flowering period.
12/12 is a finite event. There's no question when it happens, you can mark it down to the nanosecond if you want
This is why breeders, and pretty much anyone with experience who is conveying flower times to others, will list flower times as when they switched to 12/12.Kerovan is right. There is a hormone that the plant produces which will cause a switch to flower. This hormone degrades almost immediately by light. A 12 hour dark period will allow enough of this hormone to collect and induce flowering. The first night of a full 12 hour dark period induces this and biologically the plant enters a flowering period.
malicifice
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Thanks guys, just getting closer. It would be nice of it was two weeks closer but I can wait.
Kerovan
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the thing is, you can't go by timing anyway. you have to examine the trichomes to determine when it's really ready. Optimum harvest for maximum thc is when most of the trichomes are cloudy with some turning amber.
malicifice
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Yeah I need to ask Santa for a magnifying glass.
Kerovan
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you can get a good pocket 30x or 60-100x microscope from amazon or radio shack or edmund scientifics for $10-$15. Well worth the minimal cost.
http://www.amazon.com/Carson-Micro-Max-Lighted-Microscope/dp/B0009MFTSW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1292111860&sr=8-4