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Help_Needed
11-30-2007, 04:56 AM
Ok, on my last grow I grabbed a couple of clones with the intent of turning them into mother plants to be used sometime in the future. I have deliberately kept them under fairly low, but constant light (24/7 lighting). My goal was to get them to behave more or less like house plants with slow, steady growth until I decide to grow a crop of this particular strain again. It looked like I've achieved my goal but tonight I noticed that both plants are showing preflowers.

It should be noted that the clones were taken during late flower and were forced to reveg, so the plants are quite "mature".

Has anyone else heard of a plant under 24/7 lighting flowering before? Is this normal, or do I need to increase the light levels?

stinkyattic
11-30-2007, 12:08 PM
It's PERFECTLY normal. It's just doing what mature females do best, and tossing pistils. If they are showing other signs of health, just continue on as you're doing.

This pic shows a pair of OGKush Abusive cuts.
I'm regenerating a mother to stuff in a TINY space, lol, hence the 2 clones per pot, but they are from the SAME mother.
Notice (sorry bad fuzzy pic) that there is SIGNIFICANT pistil development at every node. But they are fine. :jointsmile:

Help_Needed
11-30-2007, 01:56 PM
Thanks Stinky.

Since the strain I'm currently growing is going gangbusters, I really don't want a crop of the last strain just yet. And I especially don't want the two girls to flower and then die on me lol.

Rusty Trichome
11-30-2007, 02:16 PM
Keeping the nutes and lighting the same should be no problem. If they start getting too big, can always prune them back.