When buds start to flower...

When plants stop stretching after the first 3-4 weeks into flowering stage.

The new growth, normally it's light green of course, but after a few weeks into flowering does that stop when buds first start to produce?

Dumb question maybe, but my plants new growth 3-4 days ago was a light bright green color where the new nodes were coming in, and it just started budding less than a week ago.

When I was looking at the new growth of buds forming today, I noticed all the leaves were just normal darkish green color all the way into the middle where the new nodes were growing.

Does this mean the stretch phase is done?

How long since you flipped to 12/12? If 4 weeks ago you should have large buds by now.

Not much info to say much about what you are asking about.

During rapid veg growth the new growth takes a while to green up but not so much if any during flower.

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