Thank you very much church, really appreciate all the info. Thing is my plant sprouted late november last year and there's hardly any signs of preflower, since it's been 5 months already and somebody told me lowering wont begin because o the heat and unless there is 12 hours of total uninterrupted pitch darkness, it's very close about 10 hours o total darkness, so i've made a temporary cardboad box to provide my grow with 12/12 , been two days now, no difference yet. My mother isn't too happy with weed in my backyard, so i just want to get it over with, so i thought i could force it to flower, any ideas?Weed will start flowering when days become short enough. In south india (Kerala is 8.5074° N), you should lean toward mostly sativa strains with long flowering times as it's always 12/12 there and flowering will start immediately from seed no matter what you do. You make up for zero veg time with longer flowering time.
Temperature doesn't control flowering in cannabis, photoperiod does. Definitely pick a strain suited toward your equatorial latitude leaning toward pure sativas. Indicas are better way up north where daylength changes over seasons is very volatile. (see below chart for what I mean)
Oh thanks or your help pro, i really didn't pick any particular strain, i wouldn't know how to anyway, it's just random seeds i picked up while we were cleaning our stash, one grew into a male, it got sunburnt while flowering, i got very little but im not complaining (a month ago) the other is a female i think (see the pictures ive attached in response to church's suggestions) that just wont stop growing, it's already 5 months and no signs of preflower ( i mean there are these little nodes but im not sure, you can take a look at the pics) i just want them to start flowering already!
