Flowering starting on a 18/6 cycle? Too early?

Ok. I've been running 24/0 from seed under two 40watt t12's for about a month.

transplanted into bigger pots about 7-10 days before starting the HPS light.

Switched to a 600watt HPS maybe a week ago and changed the light to 18/6

Today, i've got an AK48 reg seed, with white hairs on the top 3 nodes.

i've got a sour cream feminized with a white hair just shot out today.

i've got a blueberry autoflower fem with white hairs just starting to come out.


possible the light stressed them? The growth under the HPS has been FAST AND AMAZING, so i thought there wasn't any stress.

what should i do? keep it at 18/6 ? switch it to 12/12?
the sour cream is 18", the ak48 is like 12" and i've got a blueberry, white widow, and big-bang at about 8-9" i wanted to let the three smaller ones catch up before switching to 12/12.

i'd like to see some roots coming out of the bottom of the new pots too, to know that the underground structure matured after the transplant.

what do you think?

mayor juana said:

Everything sounds good, I'd continue on with 18/6. Those are pre-flowers you see and it's completely normal. You probably won't see roots coming out the bottom of your containers before you flower them or you'll be watering everyday and nobody wants to do that, not good for the plant either.

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didn't mean to sound dumb, just in my previous grows, i just switched to 12/12 and never saw hairs until then.

think i'll HAVE to LST the 18" one to let the others catch up

and actually, i am watering them everyday. i am DETERMINED never to have an overwatering problem again. I run it full-bore, hot, bright. They are eating the water i give them each cycle.

then again, i am not water even enough to get run off. i just hate waterlogging.

first pic is the whole shebang. Second pic, well, thats a mega-sucessfull FIM/TOP. I can't tell yet, but its quaded at least i think. 3rd pic is a blueberry closeup. that yellowing on the leaves i think is either zinc diffeciency or heat-bleaching.

not sure if others can grow as quick as ak48, may not catch up. keep vegging for couple weeks then go 12/12.

*BUDS said:

not sure if others can grow as quick as ak48, may not catch up. keep vegging for couple weeks then go 12/12.

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never really tried adding the genetic differences into play.

very short-sighted on my part. Doh!