Having pre-flowers not only means that she's ready to start the flowering stage, but she want to too!
You're the boss, (for indoor growing) you decide when she will flower, if ever. Some people do 12/12 from seed.
do people that go 12/12 from seed get less buds then people that let there plant veg??
agreed, your plant is spreading her legs for you. Switch that girl to 12-12 and watch the buds fill in. Of coarse you could veg longer this would only increase yields. your choice.
Generally no. They compensate with a higher plant count. cn
does "yield" mean how much bud the plant will produce?
It's a different style, and I must admit i have not tried it. However as a general rule, I'd say that your yield is bounded by canopy area and light intensity. Sixteen little plants will produce about as much as four monsters. The serious indoor yield-seekers practice "sea of green", many small single-cola plants packed into an array that looks like solid bud late in flower. Yum. cn
Auto's are more for the 1-2 plant growers. They're not for yeild, they're for personal smoke.
Yeild is the total amount of bud the plant will produce, yes.
yah that makes sense, i would be leaning more to sea of green side but right now i have two plants that are older then the other i got, (it was my friends) so i think ima wait to the tops grow back then put it into flower, after i harvest is the plant done? or is there some way to reveg?
ok thanks DB, so the more you Veg the more you yield?
Not much point in revegging if you couldn't reflower.
And you'll get the same quality bud off a reveg, or even better, since you'll have learned some of those gardening dos/don'ts that can only come with hands-on experience.
My advice (if it suits your style) is to reveg into a mother plant and take clones from her (build a cheapo DIY aerocloner out of a Rubbermaid bin). Then you can SOG a known pheno! I'm getting a special feeling just thinking about it. cn
agreed, your plant is spreading her legs for you. Switch that girl to 12-12 and watch the buds fill in.