You're running out of time, like in days, Can't you pull them out of the flowering room and keep them under a desk lamp for another few hours each night ?
I have a desk lamp and had planned to use it. I just want to leave the seedlings in the flower room as long as possible as they seem to like it a lot more than the desk lamp.
I didn't mean to grow under it,you move the seedlings under after lights out in the flower room.I did that with rooted clones all the time.
you have some serious grow issues if this is true. You are saying at 1 month old they are about the size they should be at 6-7 days. How are you growing, what kind of light? what kind of grow medium and nutes?
This is not true. They can flower at any time if you give them 12/12. They do not have to "sexually mature" as I hear a lot of people say.
this is not true a plant must be sexually mature to flower
i should have looked before i spoke. more like a month old, 6"+ tall, 3 nodes
get the light closer for one thing. 6" and 3 nodes is stretched. I have some right now under t-8 flourescents. At 6 days old they 1 1/2" tall with 2 good nodes and the 3rd node just coming out. at 6 inches they should have 6+ nodes. Any more than an inch a node is stretching.
sorry, but you need to experiment yourself instead of listening to hearsay on the internet or in books. They don't have to be sexually mature and they don't have to have alternating nodes to flower. I have experimented. It doesn't matter how old the plant is or how big it is. If you put it under 12/12 it will start flowering immediately UNLESS it's an auto strain, then it has to mature before it will flower. Photoperiod plants go by the length of the nights as the sole factor controlling flowering.
Well i have done plenty of "experimenting" and the plant under 12-12 continues to grow until sexual maturity is reached and then begins the flowering process.
The dark period is when flowering hormones are created. In a sexualy mature plant that is. The light period destroys those hormones. Its not the dark period that controls flowering. Its the shorter light periods not destroying all of the hormones created during the dark period. In a nutshell that is....
i agree they are stretching a little bit. due to constraints of space and electrical budget, i cannot be running more lights, or relying less on daylight. my current crop was completely vegged on daylight and 27 watts of a desk lamp.
Anything more than an inch is stretching? Now that is just personal opinion plain and simple............There is no biological or botanical fact to that statement....
A photoperiod plant doesn't have to be mature, it is the amount of light and nothing else. Right now I have some growing that were put under 12/12 at 9 days from seed, they started flowering immediately. 9 days from seed is nowhere near mature and nowhere near alternating nodes. I have done this before with plants just 3-4 days from seed just to see what happens. They went into flower also, just didn't produce much.
yes, you are correct. That is my opinion.