Can plants pause in flower

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CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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When I put my Cherry Bomb outside about a moth ago she started to flower, preflowers got bigger, she stretched, then because the days were getting longer she stopped. Started putting out new leaves and side branches instead of bud sites. 11 days ago I decided to start bringing her inside to trigger flowering because she was getting too big for her pot, and the tips of roots were starting to break the surface. Almost immediately flowers started to form again. She stretched a little, only about a foot, so she's 5 feet now. Last time I flowered a plant, she took a week before showing any signs of flowers. This plant has formed flowers so fast its like she's trying to make up for lost time.
Now I'm wondering, did she really reveg, or did she just put flowering on pause for a while?
I just put her to bed for the night, so I'll post pics of what she looks like now tomorrow, but there's a pic of what she looked like just before I triggered flowering below.
So has anyone else had plants that had started flowering when moved outside then seemed to reveg really take off when flipped?
 

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JSB99

JSB99

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CanadianJim said:
When I put my Cherry Bomb outside about a moth ago she started to flower, preflowers got bigger, she stretched, then because the days were getting longer she stopped. Started putting out new leaves and side branches instead of bud sites. 11 days ago I decided to start bringing her inside to trigger flowering because she was getting too big for her pot, and the tips of roots were starting to break the surface. Almost immediately flowers started to form again. She stretched a little, only about a foot, so she's 5 feet now. Last time I flowered a plant, she took a week before showing any signs of flowers. This plant has formed flowers so fast its like she's trying to make up for lost time.
Now I'm wondering, did she really reveg, or did she just put flowering on pause for a while?
I just put her to bed for the night, so I'll post pics of what she looks like now tomorrow, but there's a pic of what she looked like just before I triggered flowering below.
So has anyone else had plants that had started flowering when moved outside then seemed to reveg really take off when flipped?
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She reveged. Then, when you brought her inside, where you have more control over the light schedule. When you brought her inside, you triggered flowering again. You need to wait until daylight is 14 hours or less, before trying to flower her outside.
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I was drunk last night so I guess I got the sequence wrong.
1. Indoors, plant not flowering
2. Brought her outdoors, plant started to flower, then stopped (shooting out pistils, forming calyxes)
3. Saw root tips starting to poke out of the surface of the soil, started feeding bloom nutes, started bringing in at night 8 pm to 8 am
4. 3 days later flowers start to form again, way faster than any other plant I've grown, I'm keeping her on 12/12
Now, 12 days after flip I'm at the point in the second set of pics.
2. was May 24th, 3. was June 15th. Indoors I had her under 15 hours of light, I should've brought her down to 14 before I brought her out, but I didn't. I know that's why she started to flower in the first place, and then stopped and revegged.
But she never had the weird growth usually associated with reveg, and the pistils that had formed stayed white, then became bud sites when I started bringing her in at night, and putting her in a blacked out room.
I had expected the usual 2 week shift period between veg and flower.
 
JSB99

JSB99

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CanadianJim said:
I was drunk last night so I guess I got the sequence wrong.
1. Indoors, plant not flowering
2. Brought her outdoors, plant started to flower, then stopped (shooting out pistils, forming calyxes)
3. Saw root tips starting to poke out of the surface of the soil, started feeding bloom nutes, started bringing in at night 8 pm to 8 am
4. 3 days later flowers start to form again, way faster than any other plant I've grown, I'm keeping her on 12/12
Now, 12 days after flip I'm at the point in the second set of pics.
2. was May 24th, 3. was June 15th. Indoors I had her under 15 hours of light, I should've brought her down to 14 before I brought her out, but I didn't. I know that's why she started to flower in the first place, and then stopped and revegged.
But she never had the weird growth usually associated with reveg, and the pistils that had formed stayed white, then became bud sites when I started bringing her in at night, and putting her in a blacked out room.
I had expected the usual 2 week shift period between veg and flower.
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Weird. I'd say just keep an eye out for pollen sacks, which means your plant turned hermie (hermaphrodite) from being stressed too much. This includes constant light schedule changes. Plants turn as a last attempt of species preservation, where they self-pollinate.

That's if you didn't know :)
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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I did know that, but thanks.
The only changes to her lighting after going outside and now flowering will be when she's ready to harvest, and maybe after that I'll leave a couple of the lower bud sites and stress her to see if I can get some seeds. The other plants in my area (at least 3 other guys are growing) won't be shifting to flower till a week or two after that, so I shouldn't have to worry about pollinating their plants, or my girl in the ground.
 
JSB99

JSB99

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CanadianJim said:
I did know that, but thanks.
The only changes to her lighting after going outside and now flowering will be when she's ready to harvest, and maybe after that I'll leave a couple of the lower bud sites and stress her to see if I can get some seeds. The other plants in my area (at least 3 other guys are growing) won't be shifting to flower till a week or two after that, so I shouldn't have to worry about pollinating their plants, or my girl in the ground.
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It'll probably be fine.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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If it starts throwing, or is already, weird leaves it revegged. Smooth edges. Single glossy leaves like Gene Simmons tongue. I’m growing 3 Cherry Bomb and they’ve going to produce. Be 5 weeks on Saturday and the colas are long and thick. Branching off with more bud. They like nutes too.
 
CanadianJim

CanadianJim

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hotrodharley said:
If it starts throwing, or is already, weird leaves it revegged. Smooth edges. Single glossy leaves like Gene Simmons tongue. I’m growing 3 Cherry Bomb and they’ve going to produce. Be 5 weeks on Saturday and the colas are long and thick. Branching off with more bud. They like nutes too.
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Nope, no single glossy leaves, or smooth edges. First time round it didn't get that far. It just put out a few spots of pistils and calyxes (or stigmas and bracts depending on who you ask) at the spots where the preflowers were and a few at the ends of the branches and main stems (I topped her a while before putting her out). Interestingly the ones at the ends of the stems/branches died off as she revegged, but the ones at the bases of the leaves didn't, they just stopped growing and normal little side branches started to grow. Those little side branches also have bud sites on them now.
 
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