When do i consider the plant to have turned to flower?

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Slipshank

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Do you start the flowering days the day you switch to 12 hours light 12 hours dark? Or once you see a sign of the flower, which took 14 day from light switch?
 
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curious2garden

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Slipshank said:
Do you start the flowering days the day you switch to 12 hours light 12 hours dark? Or once you see a sign of the flower, which took 14 day from light switch?
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I do mine from flip but it takes 2 weeks for a full hormonal shift to flower. It doesn't matter since you shouldn't chop by date. You should chop by plant maturity; ie how your plant and it's trichomes look.
 
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spek9

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Slipshank said:
I'm 45 days in from flip 30 days since flower showed. And I was going by look for harvest just trying to figure out time for later to better time out grows.
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Every single strain is different. Often, plants from the same batch of seeds are different.

The only way to be able to semi-reliably estimate flower time is grow the strain out at least once. The next time you run that strain *in the same environment*, you should be able to predict within a two week window.

I've been doing this for a long time, and for the most part, I can gauge down to within 5-7 days for most of my strains. Sometimes I'm a bit short, sometimes a bit long.
 
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curious2garden

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spek9 said:
Every single strain is different. Often, plants from the same batch of seeds are different.

The only way to be able to semi-reliably estimate flower time is grow the strain out at least once. The next time you run that strain *in the same environment*, you should be able to predict within a two week window.

I've been doing this for a long time, and for the most part, I can gauge down to within 5-7 days for most of my strains. Sometimes I'm a bit short, sometimes a bit long.
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Well said
 
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