when does flowering cycle start ?

[amrcnbut]

when you keep track of how long your plant has been flowering, do you start from the day that you put your plant under the 12/12 cycle, or do you start counting when the first flower appears? which might be two weeks under the 12/12. my plant has been under 12/12 for 72 days now. the trichomes are
cloudy not amber, so i'm leaving it alone. but when do you start counting?
thank-you

[Roughrider]

The cycle begins the day you flip the lights to 12/12. However many days/weeks you've had the lights at 12/12...that's how long you've been flowering.

Remember, most strains still show some variation, and something could have happened during your grow that slowed the flowering cycle a bit. If your plant strain is supposed to flower for 9 weeks, and you're on Day 72...it's unusual, but not *that* unusual.