is my plant flowering? 2 month veg.

lil weezy. lol. you have been extremely helpful with providing information with my growth! i just read that 3 times and im 70% confident to do this. i cannot cut the leaves on top right now because i dont know exactly where the bud will grow so i will wait a lil bit more time.

i have SOMETHING that's not showing in some of RIU plants. right now the plant is in dark time so i cant go take a picture but...

where there is branch and leaves.. i also have something like a branch but it shoot WAYY higher. somewhat like supercropping but the leaves arent huge they very skinny and looks sick. the leaves do not fan out. they are a mini size of these fans. do i also wanna chop these branches?

Bosson26 said:

lil weezy. lol. you have been extremely helpful with providing information with my growth! i just read that 3 times and im 70% confident to do this. i cannot cut the leaves on top right now because i dont know exactly where the bud will grow so i will wait a lil bit more time.

i have SOMETHING that's not showing in some of RIU plants. right now the plant is in dark time so i cant go take a picture but...

where there is branch and leaves.. i also have something like a branch but it shoot WAYY higher. somewhat like supercropping but the leaves arent huge they very skinny and looks sick. the leaves do not fan out. they are a mini size of these fans. do i also wanna chop these branches?

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I try my best. When pruning you want to cut the branches, but with the leaves you want to pinch them off at the base, to help seal that area than leave an open wound prone to disease and infection. I would have to see what you mean by how they look sick, mini sized leaves arn't bad less they're yellowing and about to fall off like all leaves. I'de say less it's a scragly lower branch, leave it until there's a picture for me or someone to judge it from, as it is it could just cause unnescesary stress. I usually look at my plant and 'weigh out' the goods and the bads, and what I want to do.

Lil Weedy said:

I try my best. When pruning you want to cut the branches, but with the leaves you want to pinch them off at the base, to help seal that area than leave an open wound prone to disease and infection. I would have to see what you mean by how they look sick, mini sized leaves arn't bad less they're yellowing and about to fall off like all leaves. I'de say less it's a scragly lower branch, leave it until there's a picture for me or someone to judge it from, as it is it could just cause unnescesary stress. I usually look at my plant and 'weigh out' the goods and the bads, and what I want to do.

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i think i confuse you alot when i said sick. it's not yellow or anything like that. but it's a very weak mini size fan leaves. they are very curl up. it doesnt look like a mistake because there's more than one just like it so it seem very natural to have these. ill upload picture in the morning.

jumboSWISHER said:

hey bro, first off the needle like things you are seeing are pistils, wich means your plant is a female! congrats! this is a sign that your plant is ready to start flowering. second, to have your plant start flowering you MUST have your lights 12 hours on 12 hours off. it wont start flowering untill you give her 12 hour nights, it is impossible for the plant to make the chemicals to flower without 12 hours dark every night. hope this helps bro! ur plant looks yummy

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The part where you are incorrect is the plant can't flower in a veg light setup. I have a blue cheese female thats about 3 feet tall, she has buds and pistils on some of the branches....its like she wants to flower full blown, but I'm not letting her. She's a mother

hey guys. i just went to check on my plant to make sure the plant was in dark time but the light was still on. im disappointed with my timer it works fine lastnight. it shouldve been off at 7pm and i discover it on at 2:30. i dont wanna break my time cycle cuz it's best for it to be in off at 7pm.

before i turn it off i took a quick picture of what i was talking bout. here it is. a branch comes from the stem and shoot up like supercropping and this is the mini leaves im talkin bout.

Bosson26 said:

hey guys. i just went to check on my plant to make sure the plant was in dark time but the light was still on. im disappointed with my timer it works fine lastnight. it shouldve been off at 7pm and i discover it on at 2:30. i dont wanna break my time cycle cuz it's best for it to be in off at 7pm.

before i turn it off i took a quick picture of what i was talking bout. here it is. a branch comes from the stem and shoot up like supercropping and this is the mini leaves im talkin bout.

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That's too bad... Sorry to hear! Maybe you have it backwards? Iono. That branch is fine though, it's new growth, but it's upper growth, it will make a good nug, I'de leave it. Hope you figure that timer out!

hey bro.. sorry to hear about the light burn and the timer malfunction.. been through that myself... its a bitch.. spent about 30 bucks a piece on timers now to avoid that issue...

as far as pruning and removing leaves goes, i highly recommend not doing it... ill state my case and leave it at that...

1) removing foliage stresses the plant plus it has to spend energy is regrowing what it grew out once already... stress causes diminished returns.. the more cutting and hacking you do, the more stress, the more diminished the harvest.. you will get a harvest dont get me wrong.. but you could lose 10 to 15 percent by hacking away... plus the energy it uses to regrow all the stuff again causes things to slow down...

2) lollipopping, which is essentially removing the lower "worthless" growth is somewhat ok... but... if you decide to cut away the bottom of the plant try to use the cuttings for clones.. make them useful if possible.. but also, if you super crop enough, those lower branches that you would remove wont need to be removed since the tips of those branches will be at canopy height, or close to... it may take a couple super croppings to get there... but it will happen... you'll kinda learn how to control what you want your plant to do as you super crop over time...

3) the main thing i dont agree with is removing fan leaves that "shade" bud sites... first the flowers themselves dont absorb much light at all.. the fan leaves that are on the plant absorb light and store energy for the flowers that are growing near by to use.. so when you remove a fan leaf to uncover a bud site, you are just taking potential energy away from the flower that will grow there.. plus you are removing the means by which the plant actually absorbs light and creates energy.. so theres that much less light the plant will be able to absorb.. plus, again, the plant wastes energy just trying to regrow the damned thing again.....

thats just my arguement.. i would much rather augment hormones to create growth (ie super cropping/FIM'ing) or tie branches back to make more room for light to penetrate than i would removing foliage and other plant material...

gotta admit simpson made so much sense i only had to read that once. just to go further more i google more about pruning.

one thing bout pruning is as lil weezy recommend it actually bring the energy toward the top so it doesnt waste energy in the bottom. BUT that cut will stress the plant and you'll lose 10-15% of your harvest. this is also being said on THCtalk.com .

so what it comes down to i believe pruning should be done while it's in veg to avoid that loss. im already in flower even tho im only seeing a few pistils now i rather treat my plant correct so im too late to prune. i havent made i clone but i do have more seed. since this plant proven to be mother is it 100% sure that if i cut the bottom branches to make a clone it will come out a female or is it a gamble?

as for the timer i can turn it on and off twice a day by putting a clip at a certain time. i just put 2 STOP clip next to each other so in case it missed it there another stop right next to it to turn it off. if both fail im takin the timer back tonight. it's set to turn off at 7pm and 7:10pm. so let's see.

okay i went ahead and FIMing the plant. im not even gonna take a picture or anything cuz i dont wanna hear i did it wrong lmao. but hey doesnt FIM stand for FUCK i MISSED?

blaze1camp said:

for the cat above asking about cloning you can take a clone from a flowering plant you actually want to wait till about the 3rd week of flowering to do it...

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they sure as hell grow extremely fast during flowering . i FIM the plant. a great member on RIU suggest i do it. let's see result!

1 week flowering.

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after i FIMed the plant ONCE. if colas is where new leaves are born then dam i that one cut gave me at least 7 or 8 colas!!! it really seem like this did NOT stunt the plant at all. ever since that cut the plant been growing extremely fast.. i bump up my nutes and holy shit. she is growing very very fast during flowering. it did not do this much during veg i believe it's because i had other plants around and their leaves were possiblity blocking some lights! check outt the pictures!

congratulations its a girl yes 12/12 lighting and red spec cfl's @ 2600k and you will be on the high road to bud heaven, have you considered using a 125/150w ENVIROLITE? the PAR is exact spec for cannabis growth cycles, are you using any nuits?? a boost will make the buds bigger and more thc trichromes will form, you could use an envirolite and have your tornado cfl's as side lighting check my latest pics I use an ENVIROLITE mixed with 2 90w LED UFO grow lights had mad BIG results leave me some comments or summink ps your little lady looks very well ~ Stelthy

blaze1camp said:

for the cat above asking about cloning you can take a clone from a flowering plant you actually want to wait till about the 3rd week of flowering to do it...

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I MUST AGREE FULLY! Topping a plant is uneeded stress, stress can cause plants to become male...less stress on the plant is better. I am meaning growing from seed, not clones, clones should always come from a female plant....

My Strawberry Cough and Blue Cheese are monsters! I would say they are 4 months each and are full, about 3 feet high and at least a 2 foot by 2 foot bushy area, if not bigger.

I could flower them but they are my mothers. My pics are posted in Organics, titled My Shizzi.

oh my god.. plant keep growing..

I know the Bulldog White Widow takes about 2 weeks to start showing pistils and its showing quite a few now but I need to have a bit of patience since I've got about another 7 weeks to wait for this strain to properly flower, but how long before you can actually start seeing buds? I can see pistils and leaves but that's it for now. Ive put it under a 65w CFL Red flowering light (325w equivalent), It is my proper first single experiment before I chuck another 3 of these in from feminised seed like this 1