You are right. But you can keep them in veg with a 24/0 light cycle. Veg them as big as you want them, then put them outside {or flip to 18/6 or 20/4 if you are an inside guy} and they will start to flower. Lots of work has been done with semiautomatics. Cross some of those seeds back with dank photo strains to get more ump out of them. Outdoor growers in wet climates have been doing this for years, just to be able to finish before the mold sets in.
I love the word semi automatic lol
But I really want to make them fully auto
Day 54 and 2 of them have white pistils inching out and so far I saw 3 packs of nutts
Now about those 3 males
2 of them were executed , one of which smelled like dank cheese, I will dry ice hash all the trim
The other male smelt like raspberry cheesecakes and sherbert ice cream with a hint of citrus and bananas. So I shaved him down I might let him pollinate my hoes for a few seeds (which will be autoxphotopurp x autoxphotopurp = should grow faster and have a crazy flavor) I didn't want any seeds out of this at first but the way this male smells and it has perfect close node structure, I have to get his offspring.. I had a honey bananas plant, a double Tangie banana, and a tangiematic, it might be a child of one of them with one of our 3 purple fathers.