alternating nodes after topping?

heathaa

heathaa

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i topped my plants like a month ago. the two new shoots are like a foot tall now but all the nodes are alternating is that normal after topping?
 
GreenGrower14

GreenGrower14

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the nodes grow perpendicular to each other normally, the plant looks like a plus sign from the top if you can think of it that way is that what u meant?
 
heathaa

heathaa

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the nodes grow perpendicular all they way up to where i topped it from where i topped it and up they are alternating like they are flowering. i was just wondering if its normal they alternate after topping or is it going into flowering its outside btw
 
Nubby Tubbs

Nubby Tubbs

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when the nodes start alternating, your plants are mature enough to flower. its a time thing. its also a good way to tell seed from clone.
 
heathaa

heathaa

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so if they are mature enough to flower does that mean they start flowering? or is it just the way the plant is not being perpendicular and being alternating considering i topped it
 
Nubby Tubbs

Nubby Tubbs

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think of it this way... when seeds sprout, the nodes are symmetrical for a while. after a while theyll alternate, and that just means that your plants can handle the budding process. cannabis wasnt meant to flower from seed, no matter what those noobs with their wacky thread tell you. anyhow, the top you took off that plant continued to age... its not so much a growth thing as it is a hormone development thing.
 
heathaa

heathaa

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so since they are alternating they are fully mature. but i take it they still have time before they flower?
 
Nubby Tubbs

Nubby Tubbs

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oh i forgot that part of your question because im high...

your plants will not flower until you change their light cycle. veg em for 5 years, if you want. i HAVE heard that the hormones go wacky and the plant will clone differently after a year, but i havent seen that, in my activities.
 
heathaa

heathaa

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Nubby Tubbs said:
oh i forgot that part of your question because im high...

your plants will not flower until you change their light cycle. veg em for 5 years, if you want. i HAVE heard that the hormones go wacky and the plant will clone differently after a year, but i havent seen that, in my activities.
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my plants are outside and are getting a few minutes over 10 hours of complete darkness
 
heathaa

heathaa

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basically what im asking is since they are alternating nodes now are they going into flowering?
 
Icculus

Icculus

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No not necessarily right? If they are under more than 12 hours of sunlight then they will stay vegging.
 
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