Veg vs Bloom

my boyfriend and I are fighting about whether or not our plants are in bloom or veg. Am I wrong to believe that bloom and flowering means that buds are forming? And that new growth tips are not flowers?
Please someone tell me if I’m right or wrong or else I’m going to go crazy!
Basically the issue is whether bloom bites should be used instead of veg nutes when they clearly have no signs of any buds forming at all.
Thank you for your answers and thank you for listening to my semi-rant.

You can measure how good your relationship is by how small the things you argue about are... Haha... In all honesty, who cares what you call it. The plant will not benefit much / at all during the switch stage from feeding bloom nutes. You should continue with growth stage nutrients until buds develop and the stretching has stopped. Then begin to phase the bloom nutes in gradually. It still needs nitrogen to stretch those shoots out to flower and if you cut all growth nutes on the flower flip day you will not only confuse your plant but probably stunt it and make it 'sick' too.

It also depends on your medium, for me growing in straight old sterile water, I continue with veg nutes until about week 3 after switch then change out half my Res for a light bloom mix. If you're growing in soil arguably there will be a lot of nitrogen locked in the soil material and phasing in your bloom nutes could begin after the first week and as you see the first signs of bud development.

MarijAndrea said:

my boyfriend and I are fighting about whether or not our plants are in bloom or veg. Am I wrong to believe that bloom and flowering means that buds are forming? And that new growth tips are not flowers?
Please someone tell me if I’m right or wrong or else I’m going to go crazy!
Basically the issue is whether bloom bites should be used instead of veg nutes when they clearly have no signs of any buds forming at all.
Thank you for your answers and thank you for listening to my semi-rant.

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It’s in bloom when there’s actual blooms. Buds.

i have run grow nutes two weeks after flipping 12/12. i have run grow nutes one week after flipping to 12/12. i have run bloom right from the second i flipped 12/12

i think it comes down to the strain

the strain i am running now grows better if i use bloom from day one of 12/12. my last strain preferred one week of grow from 12/12
i never seen running two weeks of grow i good thing

nitrogen to a plant is like cake to a fat man. regardless of the time it will be eaten

i say once 12/12 starts your in bloom stage haha but the plant is transitioning still so no the plant its self hasn't started to bloom

i never count the 1st week of 12/12 my 8 weeks starts after the 1st week is over

Blent said:

You can measure how good your relationship is by how small the things you argue about are... Haha...
....Then begin to phase the bloom nutes in gradually. It still needs nitrogen to stretch those shoots out to flower and if you cut all growth nutes on the flower flip day you will not only confuse your plant but probably stunt it and make it 'sick' too.

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For us I think the measurement is more so how much we wanna kill each other at that moment rather than how good our relationship is, and me having not so much knowledge on growing before this season and him working full time and being stubborn as crap makes for a very argumentative day when he finally comes out to check on how the plants are doing/how I’ve been doing with them. I’m more of a fact finder and need proof type of person as well as doing research and experiments on what works best on my own so when he has information that I don’t agree with or that it contradicts what I’ve read I need to find the answer to better my skill and to know what’s what.

But thank you that is good info to take in, not only that IM RIGHT haha but to phase the bloom nutes in gradually I would have never thought that would matter. So should I phase in the bloom and phase out the grow nutes also slowly? Like maybe as much as I add of bloom I subtract of the grow?

Flowering is a synonym of blooming? So to me a cannabis plant that has hit its internal clock that tells it to start flowering is also blooming whether it has buds or not!