Can stress cause flowering?

I have recently moved my grow room to a larger area due to lack of space and possible high heat temps. I have 2 WW mothers that seem un-effected and 1 carmalicious that seems to be flowering and another carma that seems fine also. they are all in the same room still under the same veg light conditions and times. these mothers are getting too big, so I want to replace them with clones, but this carma seems to be flowering. I have goten clones off of all of these mothers allready and know they are all fem. should I just boot the 1 bad carma? Each mother came from seperate seeds not clones.

Any help would be great. I did not think pictures would be needed cause I know what I see. but if needed I can snap a few in a minute or 2.

Thanks

nobody? Darn. Maybe tomorrow. TTYL RIU

Are you sure it is flowering and not just showing PreFlowers during Veg.

I tend to find after around 8-10weeks of Vegging any mothers i have that i see PreFlowers.

If you could supply a pic it would help me to distinguish whether its flowering or just showing shes a lady.


J

pics speak 1000 words post em

I would say it is possible, in the same way as a female will herm if stressed, as a survival reaction. I can't say for sure, but I would think age of the plant may play a factor.

Here we go, a pic of the mom and a few clones (hopefully)


The Mother plants are approx 5 months old now, gonna rotate them out asap anyhow. just wanted to be sure they were ok.

pic's up sorry for delay.

looks like pre-flowers to me.

I don't think it is flowering just yet. It looks like pre-flowers to me.

hmm , i would be worried.normaly even preflowers dont turn amber like that until the plant has almost finished its life cycle.

the 2nd pic looks abit hermie

Ok OP, actual attempt to answer it... how many bladed leaves is it growing at the new growth now? When you were moving them, were they exposed to a long dark cycle (ie in a box or something)? Is there a chance the preflowers couldve been pollinated by a male?

during the move they were moved in a black plastic bag covered completely. and only in dark for maybe 5min. without water for maybe 20min.
However, here is the "stress" part.. For the past few weeks (2-3 weeks) I have not been here to change nutes or adjust ph ect. a friend has been adding water to them, but that is all..
My Whitewidow #2 Plant is growing like crazy no preflowers ect.

My Guess is, the stress caused by the lack of nutes and likely bad PH over the 3 weeks has harmed this plant..

Oh and the new growth seems normal, Weird.......

if new growth seems normal id grow it out. just my 2 cents

(Coming From Experience)

Any vegging plant that has multiple things stressing it out at once will cause it to flower in veg...I did it twice last year due to pH fluctuation, supper cropping, nitrogen toxicity, root bound, 20 degree temp and humidity fluctuation. If all of these conditions mentioned at the same time effect a vegging plant they will cause veg growth to halt. u don't get any new shoots out of the tops for two weeks... (If u don't do any treatment and leave it in veg it will take 2-3 weeks to revert back to veg growth as if u were to throw it in flower and back in veg u would have a growth halted stressed plant) Also fuzzy calyx pistils turn brown and u get a bud like top at all top nodes and side growth continues veg until effected . done it with 2 different strains thought they were auto-flower but they weren't because the clones i had (cut before the stressed flower production)grew out to be vigorous vegging plants for over 2 months, i also forgot to mention that both plants that had this stress induced flowering were plenty mature over 2 months old with sexy white pistils at every node before they started looking like 2-3 weeks in and i got worried, so i did anybody would do if they seen bud on there plant, i put it into flower and the crystals kicked in over one night, as for my other plant that had the same condition which was smaller in size so i thought it wouldn't produce much if flowers as is.....i decided to experiment.....LST'D every main branch and let all undergrowth grow up for at least 3 days to a week, still no vegetation from the tops waited until every premature chute was 2 nodes old, and cut every main branch (6 branches over 7" each) off after the premature chutes and that's all i was left with was 6 premature chutes about 2 inches high that quickly grew into a bush. The only problem i contemplated would be the spread of root rot so i decided to clone the plant and disposed. Since then i veg'd and harvested all the clones i had previously cut off the stress revived plant and did not once see the same conditions in that cycle. stress can make your plants think they are going to die and then they start to protect themselves, i had sugar coated crystals on a vegging plant on 18/6 and it looked 3 weeks in except for the brown pistils all over indicating stress...ROOT BOUND WILL CAUSE FLOWERS IN VEG NOT PRE-FLOWERS...IT WILL TAKE TRANSPLANT AND 2-3 WEEKS OF VEG AND NO STRESS TO REVERT! mature plants are way more sensitive if it happens cut any branch off with flowers leave the vegging growth and cater to her, or if shes big enough stick her in and watch her grow quick and dense