When to start counting weeks?

Please, if i'm wrong tell me. My 8 weeks is 8 weeks from the day i came and saw the first flower being barley formed. Your eight weeks may be different. If they are how do you count your weeks? Im not trying to contest methods or prove wrong its just not like that. I am just curious to see others methods on counting weeks of flowering.

My name comes from my internet experience, not my growing.

I started counting after I put them on 12/12 I am a newbie but I thought that was the way if not oh s**t cause I got a long way to go still. I do have big large colas and lots of other buds no wonder I feel like they are not doing well at 6 weeks LOL

I start my base count the day I flip. But, harvest by Trichome color.

Forget the eight weeks if it bugs you so much. 56 days. Guess what. Some strains come in at 42 days or even 77 days.

All depending on the strain and type of cannabis the flowering period can range from 7-8 weeks to 14+ weeks. I know your looking for confirmation to your methods mate, but there are variables that can sway flowering, indoor and outdoor. thats something your gonna have to learn.....

Time will give you a general idea, different plants of the same genetics can very by several weeks. Harvest it when its done, not at the amount of days the breeder says too.

Im not looking for a confirmation im just trying to figure out when people start counting there days of flowering. I know when to harvest from the %of milky/amber trichoms im just curious to see how others count there weeks. When a seed pack says 8 weeks its usualy a good scale some say 8-10 others more. I just want to know how people go about to counting those weeks. When your planning a grow its good to have basic information like this. 90% seeds of any plant has the days to maturity on them. With cannabis its no different. Anything you read about a strain has the weeks to harvest and its usualy close cause of the time they put in breeding this strain over many cycles they begin to see a pattern its just a basic set of info to go by when planning and i want to know how others go about determining there weeks. Thats all

what was the question again??? oh yea, basically, when do you start counting flowering time? remember we're in the "outdoor" section... so you indoor guys might as well sit on your hands for this one. as jeffdogg stated there are a bunch of variables involved with the length of time needed for maturity. but that's not the question. there are also a bunch of variables involved with determining the start of flowering... it may vary by strain and growing conditions... generally i'm able to check on my outdoor babies once a day and can say with absolute certainty that they didn't start flowering at the same time. so the summer solstice thing doesn't work for me as i had more than a week and a half difference in the start of flowering.

When it comes to outdoors its not really counting weeks, unless you go by a farmers almanac. Oce flowering begins it takes a couple weeks to start seeing the actual "flower clusters" as you called them. To me thats a good rule of thumb, then you harvest them when they look "done" as specified in FDD's harvest thread, its very easy to tell.

https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

You can go by trichones all you want thats fine too, just like some ppl harvest when 2/3's of the plants hairs turn red. Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.

again, what was the original question?

i think it was; how do you tell when your plants start flowering, or when do you consider your plant flowering, all to be used to determine the start of flowering time

RightyMcquick said:

again, what was the original question?

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Could you really not read? I mean seriously.... LMAO Here

For starters the initial question was

When to start counting weeks?

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Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are gonna go by weeks thats the thing.
Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are gonna go by weeks thats the thing.


Can ya read it now?

Done trying to be snide or nice/nasty acting like I didnt understand his initial question? I answered it but might of been to your likings but as I said

Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are gonna go by weeks thats the thing.

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RightyMcquick said:

i think it was; how do you tell when your plants start flowering, or when do you consider your plant flowering, all to be used to determine the start of flowering time

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No No reread the title thats the initial question.

This, the very first question asked making it the INITIAL QUESTION

[h=1]When to start counting weeks?[/h]

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You good now?

Jeffdogg said:

Could you really not read? I mean seriously.... LMAO Here

Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.
Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.
Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.
Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.
Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.
Theres different ways to tell, but not alot of outdoor growers are not gonna go by weeks thats the thing.


Can ya read it now?

Done trying to be snide or nice/nasty acting like I didnt understand his initial question? I answered it but might of been to your likings but as I said

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ok, yup. i read your bold faced rant, and it's still not answering the question. the OP said he uses a 60X - 100X loupe to scope the trichs. thats done to determine the ripeness... not the start of flowering.


lets put it this way: how do you start the timer for flowering? weeks, days, hours... the time it takes doesn't matter if you don't have an accurate start date. how do you determine the start date?

and i'm sure that the "counting weeks" was just a generalization...

but i didn't see you answer the question.

Here's what I'm learning...in real time. Second outdoor grow. Last year I paid no attention to flowering times, just went by trichs. This year paying more attention, so started counting weeks when I first noticed little bitty buds (no doubt it was going to be a flower). Wrote the average finish times on the calendar and am finding they have the right mix of trichromes a week or so earlier than the date on the calendar. Then a long time grower told me to start counting from when you first see the pre-flower pistils. Makes sense with what I'm experiencing with this harvest. Hope that helps.

PS Just a fyi, same grower (40 years) told me here in the PNW you switch to flowering nutes in mid-July, not August 1. Next year....

Like these. This is when i consider it past transistion and in flowering. Week1 if counting weeks.