Clones in perpetual state of flower?

brogro

brogro

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Good morning,

The shorter darker plants in the bottom picture were started from seed maybe a month or two ago. The taller skinnier plants, the clones were cuttings taken
in the end of February. Both are under 14 and 1/2 hours of light per day. The clones are clones of clones the original plants were given to me as clones in October. I don't want the clones to flower yet are they?

Thanks

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HydroKid239

HydroKid239

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Let the bigger plants flower out, and remove the new clones. By the time you hit mid-late flower the babies should have battled through the reveg, and normal growth should have started again.
That’s what I’d do in this situation. It’s all up to you. If you want to keep cuts, you’re gonna want them out of there.
 
brogro

brogro

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Thundercat said:
I would also increase your lighting to at least 15-16 hours. There are definitely plants that can flower with less then 12 hours of darkness. 14.5/9.5 is really on the edge imho.
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I know I'm on the threshold I wanted to get them outside mid May which is when I have 14 and a half hours of sunlight.
 
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TheWholeTruth

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brogro said:
Good morning,

The shorter darker plants in the bottom picture were started from seed maybe a month or two ago. The taller skinnier plants, the clones were cuttings taken
in the end of February. Both are under 14 and 1/2 hours of light per day. The clones are clones of clones the original plants were given to me as clones in October. I don't want the clones to flower yet are they?

Thanks

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Your plants should be fine but might be an idea to go to 16on 8 off at least as they look to have quite abit of indica in them. With quite indica leaning plants I have seen them put out quite abit of flowering hormone around the 14 hour light on mark an you can find them coming out as kind of flowering with kind of vegging at the same time.
 
brogro

brogro

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coreywebster said:
Well if you want to put them outside soon, I'm not sure why you'd be going for less hours of light instead of more, so they are bigger when you do.
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Hey Corey, May 11th is my last frost date here. It's a nice conservative date the USDA zones tell me there is almost zero chance of frost on this date. On May 15th I have 14 and 1/2 hours of daylight. I want to stop paying for the electric for the lighting and get my plants out there without going backwards on the lighting. Is this good logic or am I wrong.
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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brogro said:
Hey Corey, May 11th is my last frost date here. It's a nice conservative date the USDA zones tell me there is almost zero chance of frost on this date. On May 15th I have 14 and 1/2 hours of daylight. I want to stop paying for the electric for the lighting and get my plants out there without going backwards on the lighting. Is this good logic or am I wrong.
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Nothing wrong with wanting to cut down on the electricity bill..

Its Just your putting your plants in a state for the sake of what is essentially a couple of cents, when you could of ran 18/6 and had bigger plants without them trying to flower.
 
Beeswings

Beeswings

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coreywebster said:
Nothing wrong with wanting to cut down on the electricity bill..

Its Just your putting your plants in a state for the sake of what is essentially a couple of cents, when you could of ran 18/6 and had bigger plants without them trying to flower.
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His main point it seems is he doesn't want to have the plants used to 18 hours of light, then try to flower when he puts them outside with only 14.5 hours of sun. I think they would be fine as the days are still increasing then and something with having a little more light day after day, even if it's still a short day but the next day is longer than the last it will want to stay in veg. Probably will slow down for a week to figure their lives out, but I suspect they will pull out of it just fine. Mine always have.
Happy 420 by the way!!!!
 
brogro

brogro

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Beeswings said:
His main point it seems is he doesn't want to have the plants used to 18 hours of light, then try to flower when he puts them outside with only 14.5 hours of sun. I think they would be fine as the days are still increasing then and something with having a little more light day after day, even if it's still a short day but the next day is longer than the last it will want to stay in veg. Probably will slow down for a week to figure their lives out, but I suspect they will pull out of it just fine. Mine always have.
Happy 420 by the way!!!!
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B's wings I have been trying to get an answer to that. Most people are saying if the day is shorter I start to flower. I was hoping there was something like a 12-hour cut off.
 
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