This is not the first instance that I have heard of White Russian auto-flowering as a mother, one of the primary reasons I never grew her. Perhaps some Ruderalis genes got mixed up in there along the way, who knows. Although I have grown Serious' BubbleGum and she is a lovely lady indeed
I found this email from Simon to someone who had a similar problem. It is not flowering it is just the way it grows I guess. I do not see hairs but he said stress can cause autoflowering to come thru so hopefully my FIM didn't stress it to autoflower. I guess I will wait and see. heh
Hi ,
You are probably reffering to preflowers at the base of every knot where the fanleave grows from the stem.
The AK-47 and also the Chronic for instance, have very noticable preflowers and more than 1 grower have mistaken these for actual budgrowth. May be you have noticed that the plants did go on growing while producing flowers at every node, but there is probably no
actual budformation.
There are usually 2 preflowers at the base of every leave, or 4 at every knot as those leaves are usually opposite of each other at the main stem. Because these preflowers are so big and abundant it seems for many people like the plant is in flower while under 18 hours of light.
Please look closely; it is probably not a cluster of flowers, but a couple of single flowers with very noticeable big white hairs sticking out. Trie to clone it should be no problem.
Also, we have never seen flowering of healthy AK-47, Chronic or White Russian plants under 24 hour of light. Flowering under 24 hour should mean stress. So place them under 24 hour of light if you think 18 is a problem. They should be fine then, if not look what is stressing them, they should not flower.
Sincerely,
Simon
And this from a Serious guy.
Hi,
You may think that what you have is auto flower but it is not.
Many of our strains will show pre flower after the 5th node.
We at Serious seeds keep our plants at 24/7 light.
All the peoples complaining about this were veging at 18/6 hours light.
As soon as they have put there plants at 24/7 they got back to veg.
Sorry for this issue.
Tell us how it goes and if you want replacement
Respect
Claude