when would you say your plant is on day 1 of flowering?

The only reason to count flowering time is to get an approximate date your plants will be ready to harvest.

If you start counting when you flip the lights instead of when they show sex your flowering time will be different for every plant, so what is the use of counting in the first place?

my plants have all (3) shown sex during the veg phase so i count my day 1 12/12 as day 1 of flower as well.

angelsbandit said:

The only reason to count flowering time is to get an approximate date your plants will be ready to harvest.

If you start counting when you flip the lights instead of when they show sex your flowering time will be different for every plant, so what is the use of counting in the first place?

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The rhetoric is painful.

Some people think that they start flowering the plant and other people think that the plant starts flowering itself, it all depends on who is the boss.

magilla gorilla said:

my plants have all (3) shown sex during the veg phase so i count my day 1 12/12 as day 1 of flower as well.

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Pre-flowering plants are different than if you switch a plant to 12/12 and it takes 18 days to show pistils... then maybe you'd call the shot differently. (The plant is boss with this guy)

For me the first day of 12/12 is the first day of flower because it leaves my VEG room and moves into my FLOWER room. If it's in the flower room then you have to say it's flowering right?

Either way I ALWAYS lose track and end up guesstimating. But that doesn't really matter, because I harvest when I think the plant is ready based on the trichomes and not an arbitrary schedule.

angelsbandit said:

The only reason to count flowering time is to get an approximate date your plants will be ready to harvest.

If you start counting when you flip the lights instead of when they show sex your flowering time will be different for every plant, so what is the use of counting in the first place?

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not for every plant.... same phenos of same strain will all be fairly consistent.... as long as the plants are matured enough to flower, it will take an average of (x) days to start visibly flowering and then (y) days to finish flowering , x+x equals average flower time after switching lights for this strain/pheno.....

make any sense?