BIG lighting problem in little grow room

I came to visit family for the weekend and we had a car crash and can't get back till friday, have already been here 3 days more than we were suppose to plant's were last fed on friday.

Got someone to check my electric meter as it's not in the property and it's on 19p, that's not lasting with my 600w light! they cannot put the emergency credit on as the electric key is inside the property and they can't get in the property (i don't give out spare keys).

I believe i can get a code off my supplier tomorrow for a new key from a local shop but my light cycle is lights turn on at 3, it's now 9 so they have had 6 hours of light and will be off untill this can be sorted tomorrow, that will be about 12 hours of darkness minimum i really don't wanna put my girls into budding yet i want to keep them in veg.

Am i fucked?

Someone please help?

you might stress em and they become herms but dont worry about it my light cycle fucked up couple times this grow and so far everything looking great defiantly female but if its only one day of 12 + darkness you should not worry to much

How could anyone help you? Either your light is out or something else is wrong. Either way, it will have to wait til you can deal with it personally. I don't think 12 hours darkness at this point will hurt it so long as you can get it back on tack ASAP. People have their timers fail all the time and can still get it on schedule again.

They wen't only between 12 - 16 hours without light but 3 have produced bristles, they are about 6inches tall, 5bladed leaves, about 10 - 16 nodes each (very bushy) about 11 inches wide measuring the largest leaves. Can i continue to veg these on 18/6 till they are about 12" tall, ps the nodes are not alternating so how are they starting to bristle?
I'm hoping the few hours out of light cycle has not put my plant's into bud but i am hoping as it say's on the 600w hps sunmaster bulbs box "encourages early flowering" that i can continue to veg till they get taller and then put them into 12/12 or do i have no choice but to bud now?
Please don't post unless you honestly know i really don't want to have these in bud unless i have to as i predict i will only get about 4 oz's of these 4 plant's

Sorry pictures are unavailable, If you require any more information about them to identify the problem let me know

+rep for help as always

No just go back to 24/0 for a week to kick em in the ass.

I think you will be fine, this is only a slight stress.
What i would do is this:
First get them under 18-20 hrs of light a day, maybe 22 but i think they should still get a sleep in.
Now i would take pictures if possible, with a tape measure or something else to base size on. Now keep an eye on them to make sure they continue to grow, using your pictures to be sure if needed, often its very hard to see the day to day growth at this point.
If they grow you are golden, i would give them a full week to make sure everyone is growing nicely (as well as before or very close).
If they do not grow, they have started flower and putting them back under the veg light (time cycle) has caused them to revert, this can take 4-6 weeks in a lot of cases. So if no growth you need to decide if you want to spend that kind of additional time of them, or just throw them into flower, which should happen fairly rapidly still.
Hope everyone is alright from the accident, need anything else feel free to hit me up.

totally find dude, there's no way they would have jumped into flower that fast. it takes a while
Just set your timers back on the schedule you had before and pretend like it never happened

Thedillestpickle said:

totally find dude, there's no way they would have jumped into flower that fast. it takes a while
Just set your timers back on the schedule you had before and pretend like it never happened

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Okay mate just got worried as they have the bristles and smell, was a huge shock coming back to them with basically white/yellow leaves bone dry to the crisp with no nutes i knew it was going to happen while i was stuck up there, now my fam have a spare key so it won't happen again but as soon as i got back i whipped up some nutes and fed it and they are all looking alot healthier already i recon 2 - 3 more days and they will be back to looking beautiful and healthy

And as of 2 of the 4 seeds being non feminised 3 have been easily identified as female and the one which is not yet identifiable is a feminised seed either way so that's all good although might get slightly crowded with my 1.2 x 1.2 x 2 tent with 4 plant's in but well see since i am not training them in any way

Yea probably better not to top them or they will crowd in that space.

How many pistils are you seeing? it shouldn't be more than 8 pistils per node max at this point. That would be 1 calyx on each side of each shoot, with 2 pistils per calyx and two shoots per node. It's called "preflowering" and it's normal when a vegging plant becomes mature.

Well they are 1 per side of each shoot like you said not two but i will check again soon they only have half hour sleep left it's time to nute these beauts

Also from when i returned and they had not been watered in 7 full days i'm assuming they would have run out of food in the soil 5 - 6 days before i returned a couple are fine, the others especially one the candy kush has only the 2 lowers set of leaves were completely yellow and bone dry cripsy, i have high hopes these will repair, the top of the 2 lower leaves has half gone green since nuteage 2 days ago so recovering but no recovery in the lowest so far so i am hopeing it will start to turn green and healthier as the upper leaf heals more.

any tips?

I wouldn't worry about old leaves, as long as they are not becoming worse. As your plant grows and branches out more and more a few leaves down low will be nothing compared to the hundreds of new leaves growing up top. Focus more on the growing leaves, but try to keep the old ones healthy

yea I said 8 as a maximum until flowering. Each calyx usually puts out 2 white hairs, but sometimes you can only see 1