10 Genetically Unique Plants Flowering Under 24 Hours Light

The most bizarre, inexplicable thing is happening. I have 12 nice sized clones, about 4 weeks old, between 12-18 inches each, recently transplanted into 2-gal fabric pots. They are under continuous, 24 hour florescent light. The light is about 7-8 inches above the canopy as I found out the hard way that unlike my old trusty Home Depot bulbs, this T5 fixture fom Hydrofarm was prone to burning the plants.

Temps and humidity in check - plants out in the open with windows and screen door in the kitchen in mild weathered Northern CalifornIa.
I came home today to ensure the plants look great - and they do - but noticed one by one, each and every one of the plants is beginning flowering. All showing white pistils at the nodes.

Even stranger - nearly all 12 plants came from a different mother plant. So you can rule out auto flowering. About 6 of the clones beautifully producing mothers are all from unique, grown from a mixed grab bag of bag seed collected over the past year. The other six clones mothers are a mixture of 6 unique and individual mothers started from seeds from a highly reputable seedbank. All in all, I have about 9-10 completely genetically unique plants.
How in the world could this happen? I've never seen this firsthand, or even read about it through all my readings. Even a google search produced irrelevant results. My plants are under a single fixture that is turned on 24 hours per day.

You're sure that they're flowering? Perhaps they are just showing preflowers. At 4 weeks old it could be preflowers. Better pics would help.

Sent from Northern Colorado.

Follow the main stem up until you see the white hairs

all i see is preflowers?

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If it's possible that cannabis plants show their sex during vegetative growth, and will continue to "veg" then my mind is blown. I've never seen this in a decade of growing.

I don't want them to flower. These were carefully selected cuttings I made, that we're intended to be mother plants, indefinitely.

I have a cut of wreck that really makes you look twice because it really has strong preflowers throughout veg. I see what your showing in the new pics and I would say no worries same thing the wreck does and I have had her a couple years no problems whatsoever..believe I even posted somewhere asking wtf when it happened

I appreciate your response as it is encouraging - but 10 random varieties? I'm shocked if this is all good.

ooops sorry did not catch that part but if they all look like the pics that you have shown then I would not worry. do you normally just flower from seed? I know you have been growing a long time so you know what's up.

I was just thinking maybe you always had either grown fro seed in the past in which case if you followed a normal 4 week veg into flower most plants have not reached true sexual maturity yet..

The cut I am speaking of that i keep did not start that untill she was around 3 months old. I have buddies who have grown forever but always from clone others from seed so I just wanted to ask and possibly find a sigh of relief for you

I see no problem. I'm currently vegging over 20 different strains, all have a pair of pre-flower calyxes at every node junction. Some small, some large, and everything in between.

I can't believe you never noticed. If it would have been a snake... lol.

The pre-flower calyxes give you a preview of what that particular strain's bud will look like when ripe. If a strain has large pre-flowers I know not to harvest the bud until the bud calyxes swell to the size of the pre-flower calyxes.

bigbudheadshrimp said:

I can't believe you never noticed. If it would have been a snake... lol.

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Hahaha. I know why you never noticed. It takes months of veg before a plant shows sex. Most of my cuts are years old, this is why I notice it on all my plants.

Yes, those are preflowers in those pics.

Sent from Northern Colorado.