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Fatleg77

Fatleg77

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Is there a general consensus on when the flowering period actually starts? What I mean to say is do I call my buds five weeks old from the start of light cycle change or first white pistol development. I feel like it should be from pistol growth because I believe the transition and stretch should be it's on period of development. Thoughts? Insights?
 
a mongo frog

a mongo frog

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Fatleg77 said:
Is there a general consensus on when the flowering period actually starts? What I mean to say is do I call my buds five weeks old from the start of light cycle change or first white pistol development. I feel like it should be from pistol growth because I believe the transition and stretch should be it's on period of development. Thoughts? Insights?
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The consensus on RIU is whatever makes one look like the best.
For instance if you've been in 12/12 for around 5 weeks and you show a pic and say you have been in flower for 16 days, you will look like the best gardener ever!!!!!
100% for sure the start of 12/12 is the start of flower. It is the same thing outside, one starts getting buds when.........?
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I don't even keep track of when I start flowering anymore. I also don't track how long I'm vegging. I put the plants in flower when they're the size I want and harvest when they're ready. It doesn't really matter how many days to me. They're done when they're done.
 
Fatleg77

Fatleg77

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xtsho said:
I don't even keep track of when I start flowering anymore. I also don't track how long I'm vegging. I put the plants in flower when they're the size I want and harvest when they're ready. It doesn't really matter how many days to me. They're done when they're done.
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Ok see I really like this reply. It makes the most sense. I guess I'm just trying to complicate shit as usual...lol
 
Fatleg77

Fatleg77

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xtsho said:
I don't even keep track of when I start flowering anymore. I also don't track how long I'm vegging. I put the plants in flower when they're the size I want and harvest when they're ready. It doesn't really matter how many days to me. They're done when they're done.
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Based on your experience would you say there is a longer flowering Time than most breeders call for?
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Fatleg77 said:
Based on your experience would you say there is a longer flowering Time than most breeders call for?
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I'd say it's usually on the high end or a little longer than what they state. So if they say 6 -8 weeks figure at least eight weeks ore more. It also depends on what type of high you like. Different harvest times provide different types of highs.

I'm not a big High Times fan but this short and simple article explains it pretty well.
https://hightimes.com/grow/how-to-tell-when-its-time-to-harvest-your-weed/
 
Miyagismokes

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a mongo frog said:
The consensus on RIU is whatever makes one look like the best.
For instance if you've been in 12/12 for around 5 weeks and you show a pic and say you have been in flower for 16 days, you will look like the best gardener ever!!!!!
100% for sure the start of 12/12 is the start of flower. It is the same thing outside, one starts getting buds when.........?
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Outdoor, the timeframe is irrelevant.
Most strains will start to flower in August here at this latitude (barring something highly acclimated to a different latitude, which happens). Some folks will count off the weeks til it's done, but we really just work off simpler short-or-long finish ideas. The specific time to finish is "when it's done..."
 
a mongo frog

a mongo frog

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Miyagismokes said:
Outdoor, the timeframe is irrelevant.
Most strains will start to flower in August here at this latitude (barring something highly acclimated to a different latitude, which happens). Some folks will count off the weeks til it's done, but we really just work off simpler short-or-long finish ideas. The specific time to finish is "when it's done..."
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So whats your answer to the op's question? Now your saying lighting cycle does not strart the flowering?
What are you saying?
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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xtsho said:
I don't even keep track of when I start flowering anymore. I also don't track how long I'm vegging. I put the plants in flower when they're the size I want and harvest when they're ready. It doesn't really matter how many days to me. They're done when they're done.
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100% * ( 2 ^ 20 internets )
 
too larry

too larry

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Most years my light hits 12/12 on or around September 22nd. But the start of flowering is very strain dependent. I only count weeks as it relates to seed production. I try to dust at 3 weeks to make sure the seeds finish before the flowers.
 
Miyagismokes

Miyagismokes

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a mongo frog said:
So whats your answer to the op's question? Now your saying lighting cycle does not strart the flowering?
What are you saying?
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What I'm saying is different strains will START at different times outdoor, so it'll never be x weeks from a specific day based solely on photoperiod, outdoors.
The plants that get the best sun tend to flower and finish in different times than same strain, less light too. Though that doesn't appear to be a problem here, everything looks like it gets maximum sun.
 
too larry

too larry

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Bullshit. They will finish different times.
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They will start and finish at different times. My old sativa strains are a good couple three weeks behind some of the early stuff I've got now.

And then there is the freak shit that happens. I have an Ass Cheese f2 {Cindy's Blue Cheese X Donkey Kong} and an Ass Cheese Blues {AC X Blue Shiva X Blue Shark} that are several weeks into flower, and don't seem to care that summer just started.
 
a mongo frog

a mongo frog

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too larry said:
They will start and finish at different times. My old sativa strains are a good couple three weeks behind some of the early stuff I've got now.

And then there is the freak shit that happens. I have an Ass Cheese f2 {Cindy's Blue Cheese X Donkey Kong} and an Ass Cheese Blues {AC X Blue Shiva X Blue Shark} that are several weeks into flower, and don't seem to care that summer just started.
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There are grows where people do multi strain grows many different strains and they are all planted at the same time. Some will be chopped at different times. None of those plants were planted at different times. And in indoor, they all go into 12/12 at the same time. And they are chopped at different times.
Im not sure what you all are getting at?
 
too larry

too larry

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a mongo frog said:
There are grows where people do multi strain grows many different strains and they are all planted at the same time. Some will be chopped at different times. None of those plants were planted at different times. And in indoor, they all go into 12/12 at the same time. And they are chopped at different times.
Im not sure what you all are getting at?
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I'm outdoors, where the light changes are incremental. All I'm saying is that outdoors, different strains will start flowering at different times. In most cases, the later a strain starts to flower, the longer it will take to finish.

I have no indoor experience.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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its the same indoors, i run a perpetual, so i'm only starting one plant a week, sometimes when i flip them, one can go into flower way faster than the others, you can have plants go through their stretch and start to bud good before plants that have been in there a week or even two weeks longer, and those will usually be the ones to finish early
 
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