Rookie Lighting Mistake

So I kinda maybe sorta didn't know you were supposed to change lighting cycles from veg to flower. I'm a newbie and thought it didn't bud until the very end. The plant seems to be okay: about 18 inches high, roots fill up a 5 gal bubble bucket, though I have to remove 3-5 dead leaves of varying sizes on the lower end each day. They've been at 24/0 from seed to about week 6 of flower; I just put it at 12/12. Will it still bud? Is there anything I can do to help it recover?

Thanks!

its going to flower alright. its probably going to double in size also... im guessing anyways.. im still pretty new at this myself

If it's alive before you flip it, of course it's going to flower! Why would it not?

Thanks for the replies, it's great news.

So if my nutrient schedule has two more weeks of feeding before flushing and harvest, do I need to modify it at all if it hasn't started budding yet?

It's been a week and no buds =/. The lower leaves on the plant are still slowly withering and dying, but they aren't getting replaced, and the plant is thinning out overall. I'm on week 7 of a General Hydroponics Grow-Micro-Bloom feeding schedule at 0-6-20; do I need to add some Grow to the nutes so the plant can regenerate while it tries to bloom late? Thanks.

Listen man, you can veg a plant as long as you want, so techniacally you did nothing wrong... in fact, the longer you veg, the more bud if flowered correctly.... The only thing to worry about is rootbound, but you said 5 gallon buckets and your plant are 18 in tall so your ok....

If you are removing that many leaves there is a good chance you have over ferted. I lose like a leaf or two a week from my critical mass and most of those are due to nutrient on the lowest leaves. I would not expect leaf loss until week 5 or later of flower.

Your plants are at week 1 of flower if you have just switched them btw.

Mouse out

Sounds like you've been feeding a veggin' plant on a flowering schedule... If it's not an auto and you were on a 24/0 light schedule there's no way it's 6 weeks into flower...

You flipped the switch a week ago, you're on week 1 of flower, now start your flowering feeding schedule... Good luck...

what light are you using? why are you removing the bottom leaves? are they yellow and dried out? is the yellowish moving up the plant? some pics would help, but if the bottom is very yellow, that could be a lack of nitrogen. could also be a lack of light penetrating thru the canopy. you dont wanna lose too many of the lower leaves too early on, they kinda act as batteries for juice. the plant will draw some energy from them, and kill them off on their own, but a bunch of leaves a day could be the sign of a bigger issue

I would be inclined to agree. too much P and K locking out the rest of the nutes.

Mouse

Alright, I'm gonna go back to week 2 flowering feeding/lighting.

dont stress it , now uve gone 12/12 she'll start the change into flower , having it in veg for all that time isnt a bad thing the longer the veg the bigger the outcome

I'm entering the fourth week of going 12/12, and my plant is showing no signs of budding. The leaves all look green and healthy, but as mentioned before, a lot of the lower leaves have already died. Should I still wait for this one to bloom, or give up on it and start a new one?

screw the feeding schedule , u will need flush if any at the last weeks of its life not what the schedule says , and to set it clear , u will have to reschedule , take this 1st week of 12/12 as the 1st week of flowering

I did start the first week of 12/12 as flowering... it's been four weeks, and nothing. It's still drinking, but I think I've damaged the plant in some way. I think I should go ahead and throw another seed under a towel.

Hmm check that... I see some white hairs! That means it's on its way to budding, right?

Take a picture as someone said ( I read earlier) a picture is worth a thousand words but a thousand words doesn't necessarily give a clear picture

Your lower leaves are yellowing/falling off from lack of proper light and because you've been vegging so long. Make sure you are on 12/12 light cycle. Flush your plant if you have any GROW nutrients in your bucket. Begin with a decent helping of BLOOM nutrients immediately after your flush. Do not mix grow and bloom nutrients. At this point adding grow nutrients will not help yellowing/dead leaves as someone else mentioned. Also forget what a different person mentioned about nutrient lockout, don't even commit it to memory. Follow a schedule for the kind of nutrients you are using. Get yourself a TDS/PPM meter if you don't have one and make sure you aren't over-fertilizing your plants. Try and keep your TDS at 1000PPM or less. A problem many people have when they veg for as long as you, is that once the plant is actually in flowering, it drinks like mad. If your foilage is healthy, drinking 2gal. a day is not abnormal. All that drinking will cause PPM fluctuations and if the roots drink it all your plant could die. So keep an eye on that water level daily. Flush your plant at the end of grow. Make sure you harvest it at the right time, not too early or late.

If you are seeing white hairs that is a good sign, are they on the tips of the branches (buds) or coming out of the sides of the branches (preflowers/female pistils)? I would say post a pic, but since you have 7 posts and they are all on this thread, perhaps you might consider not asking any more questions. Instead, start researching what it takes to effectively grow marijuana... including looking at the many pictures on this site of plants in the same phase as yours. once you understand a bit more, ask away.... just a thought. cheers and good luck!

mr.bond

pictures!!!

So no Grow? What about Micro? Can you recommend a ratio including liquid KoolBloom (all I know is not to use the full prescribed strength)? You're right I vegged for too long; pretty much 10 weeks of veg with 24/0 light, this will start the 5th week since I changed to 12/12 and restarted my feeding schedule from that point. But my plant probably suffered because it wasn't getting the right nutrients for its current life stage, as you said.

These are the best I can do on a camera phone: