Switching to 18/6 on week 6 of flower?

SmokyLungs

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Crazy question but only looking for answers by people who have done this and have experience i am on week 6 if i switched to 18/6 for the last 2 weeks or week and half will my flowering plants finish? Obky reason im asking i have newer seeds that are starting to flower way too short and small i want to veg thise before they get too much into flower
 

SmokyLungs

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any new growth resulting from this type of reveg will grow more green, not more trichomes, not more thc, no more buds, lots of revegetation. next time veg longer for bigger plants> I'd suggest finishing these 12/12 to avoid a fail
U might be confused i hhavetwo groups of plants the ones on week 6 and the ones just starting to flower i want to veg those if possible i was wondering if 18/6 light would disturb the 1st group of late flowerers from finishing for the last 2 weeks or 1 week of possible
 

SmokyLungs

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Alright was just asking to see if it was as dumb as i thought lol i have my answer il just finish my 1st group and reveg the second
 

SmokyLungs

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Fyi people reveg all the time even after harvest with no herm issues im growing strains from respectable breeders not cookie crosses or pollen chucks worked lines but still il just finish my 1st under 12/12
 

Aby55

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Yes people do reveg all the time. To save genetics. Not because there timing on round 2 was off.
I would finish flowering all of them then harvest and leave some lower growth to reveg.
Revegging also causes major branching and takes about 2 weeks sometimes longer depending on the strain.
Ive revegged plenty. In a sepperate area from my flowering plants.
 

Olive Drab Green

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Crazy question but only looking for answers by people who have done this and have experience i am on week 6 if i switched to 18/6 for the last 2 weeks or week and half will my flowering plants finish? Obky reason im asking i have newer seeds that are starting to flower way too short and small i want to veg thise before they get too much into flower
You would cause it to reveg and waste 6 weeks of your time. You will have to start over. I dunno why you flowered 6 weeks before figuring out they were too short.
 

SmokyLungs

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You would cause it to reveg and waste 6 weeks of your time. You will have to start over. I dunno why you flowered 6 weeks before figuring out they were too short.
Yall are misunderstanding i have 2 groups of plants the short ones that i was planning on 12/12 from seed then the 6 week flowering plants which are big i can careless if those herm on the final weeks or reveg on the final week because i would be harvesting those completely nanners that late in flower would cause no issues not sure how u guy missed that the bud would be near finished no seeds will be even be able to form that late in flower by the time they do stress if they do nanners dont grow over night takes a while for a plant to react im well aware of the risks but that is meaning less that late in flower and close to harvest my main question is will the flowers from my big plants still finish add weight trichome maturation for the last 2 weeks or even a week under 18/6 the only ones im keeping around are the short ones which my goal is to reveg those asap because a few have started showing sex
 

Aby55

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Nobody missed anything...your buds will get ruined.
They might still be worth harvesting but you could lose a good amout of weight considering most swell up in the last couple of weeks.
They go into like a shock for awhile and dont grow at all.
 

jsisko01

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Hi SmokyLungs. I can tell you from experience because I have re-vegged many times either by accident or on purpose lol. The plants that are already in flower will get ruined. They will not continue to add weight, they will get stunted once you switch over to the 18/6 light schedule. Usually the buds get super airy and the whole plant will be like popcorn buds. If you're lucky they won't go hermy. The seeds forming on the currently flowering plants is not what you need to worry about, but rather they can form pollen sacs pretty quickly. They could release the pollen in your room and even if the new plants aren't flowering yet, you will have trace amounts of pollen in your grow room that can remain floating around in the air and then pollinate your other plants once they do start flowering. Even if that's a month or 2 later..

Your 6 week flowering plants, once they are no longer stunted, will start re-vegging and grow like a crazy bush and have irregular growth with strange looking leaves. If you're familiar with the monster cropping technique for clones, that is exactly how the re-veg will look. Stringy, long stretching, and the hormones will be wacked out and cause branching in all directions. Sometimes people like that effect because it creates much more tops, but you will be very aggravated trimming the buds because there will be much more weird leaf matter to cut off than if they flowered the normal way. The current buds on those plants will become airy and sprout new tops from above them. So the current buds will turn into shit, but the new buds should be okay as long as they don't go hermie. But again, you will hate the trimming process most likely. Every strain differs but I've done this a few times! I hope that gives you a better idea of what to expect lol.
 

SmokyLungs

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Hi SmokyLungs. I can tell you from experience because I have re-vegged many times either by accident or on purpose lol. The plants that are already in flower will get ruined. They will not continue to add weight, they will get stunted once you switch over to the 18/6 light schedule. Usually the buds get super airy and the whole plant will be like popcorn buds. If you're lucky they won't go hermy. The seeds forming on the currently flowering plants is not what you need to worry about, but rather they can form pollen sacs pretty quickly. They could release the pollen in your room and even if the new plants aren't flowering yet, you will have trace amounts of pollen in your grow room that can remain floating around in the air and then pollinate your other plants once they do start flowering. Even if that's a month or 2 later..

Your 6 week flowering plants, once they are no longer stunted, will start re-vegging and grow like a crazy bush and have irregular growth with strange looking leaves. If you're familiar with the monster cropping technique for clones, that is exactly how the re-veg will look. Stringy, long stretching, and the hormones will be wacked out and cause branching in all directions. Sometimes people like that effect because it creates much more tops, but you will be very aggravated trimming the buds because there will be much more weird leaf matter to cut off than if they flowered the normal way. The current buds on those plants will become airy and sprout new tops from above them. So the current buds will turn into shit, but the new buds should be okay as long as they don't go hermie. But again, you will hate the trimming process most likely. Every strain differs but I've done this a few times! I hope that gives you a better idea of what to expect lol.
Thank u i was looking for an explanation from a man with experience its all clear now im just gonna finish them under 12 of my new group only 2 have sexed yet to females anyway il just reveg or kill those thank for the ccler explanation im just gonna leave them under 12/12
 
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