i have 4 plants that are a month old and i started them inside under a halogen bulb(i know halogens arnt very good but that was all i had at the time). so i put the 4 month old plants strait from 24 hours of light under a halogen, to 12/12 outside when they were a week and a half old. will these plants bud themselves or will i have to start adding more phosphorus when the time comes?
do i have to bud my plants, or will they bud themselves
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veggiegardener
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Outdoors they may show a few flowers but won't go into full flowering until August.
Brick Top
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The month itself has nothing to do with it, it is all seasonal. Keep in mind the two different hemispheres and when each has each season.
If plants are grown outdoors, and left outdoors, they will not begin to flower until the hours of darkness reach 12 hours or longer. Once that happens it stimulates a hormone and the plants will then begin to flower, though it can take a full two weeks for the flowering hormone to fully kick in, in some cases.
If you are growing outdoors in pots and can bring plants inside and have a totally dark room to put them in you can flower them any time by limiting the hours of daylight they receive each day and making sure they always receive 12 hours or more of darkness each night … but that would be a real pain in the butt to do so its always best to rely on Mother Nature to change the length of day and night and then your plants will flower.
As for your length of flowering time question …. would it be an injudicious thing of me to do to assume that you are growing from bagseed? Had you purchased genetics you would know what the breeder said is an average flowering time, which of course is only a rough estimate and you have to be able to tell when the right time to harvest actually is, but at least the breeder time gives you a general timeframe to go by.
If you do not know what you are growing all you can do is wait and check out your leaves. If they are fat paddles then it is indica dominant or indica so then you would normally have roughly 8 or 9 weeks of flowering time. If the leaves are skinny like the crypt keeper’s fingers, then it is sativa dominant, very sativa dominant in fact, to totally sativa. That would give you a flowering time that would normally be more like 12 to 14 weeks, though some are a tad bit shorter but some can go much, much longer before ready to harvest.
My advice is to purchase an inexpensive lit scope, like one Radio Shack carries for roughly $13.00, and around 7 1/2 weeks into flowering start to check your trichomes and keep track of them until they are the color that will give you the most of what you can get out of your plants that you enjoy the most.
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veggiegardener
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Cheap and effective! Buy from Radioshack. There are folks who prey on unwary stoners and charge $30-$40 for exactly the same unit, although they sometimes paint a logo on them.