Bud from a baby?

I recently heard you could force a young plant to flower and you will get bud off it, not alot but some. Is this true?

How young are we talking here?

The plant will show you when it is ready to flower by going from leaves opposite to leaves alternating. This means there will be a petiole sticking off one side of the stem, and a little ways up, a petiole will stick off the other side. The main stem may take on a slightly zigzag growing habit at the top.

There is no point trying to force a plant to flower before this happens. I have never tried it, but I will guess that either you will get poor bud development because the root system is not strong enough to feed a flowering plant that needs a lot of energy, of you will end up with stress hermaphrodites, or both.

Just be patient. You will thank yourself for it later when you cut down a big fat bud.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.

The plant CAN be flowered before alternating internodes, but the alternation of the nodes is the classic sign that your plant is ready.

If you veg for 2 weeks and then flower, your plant will then flower as soon as its phyically possible.

You need to use a clone.
If you use a clone and flower it as soon as it roots.
It will be a mini cannabis plant.
Very cool looking. Like Lowryder.
But good bud.

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Originally Posted by LIP

If you veg for 2 weeks and then flower, your plant will then flower as soon as its phyically possible.

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Let me see if I hear you right- the plant can be put into 12-12 but may not show flowers as early as a sexually mature plant that is put in 12-12 at the same time. Makes sense.

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Originally Posted by Jdog7000

You need to use a clone.
If you use a clone and flower it as soon as it roots.
It will be a mini cannabis plant.
Very cool looking. Like Lowryder.
But good bud.

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Right, but a 'baby' clone still has the genetic age of the mother. If you take a clone from a 2 year old mommy, that clone is 2 years old even if is very small.

I thought autoflowering ruderalis-descended varieties like Lowryder are not cloned because when they attain a certain age they go into flower and cannot be reverted to veg, making cloning useless, and making a 2 year old lowryder plant an impossibility.

thank you all for the information.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

Let me see if I hear you right- the plant can be put into 12-12 but may not show flowers as early as a sexually mature plant that is put in 12-12 at the same time. Makes sense.

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Yeah, exactly.

i am sorry lip but i have to disagree, a plant will flower at any stage of it life at the same time ( or there abouts give or take a day ) most dutch seedscan be flowered 3 weeks from germination. i have recently added a 3 week old white widow to my flowering chamber and it showed 4 days before my clones who have been taken from a plant that is nearly 2 monthes now.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

Right, but a 'baby' clone still has the genetic age of the mother. If you take a clone from a 2 year old mommy, that clone is 2 years old even if is very small.

I thought autoflowering ruderalis-descended varieties like Lowryder are not cloned because when they attain a certain age they go into flower and cannot be reverted to veg, making cloning useless, and making a 2 year old lowryder plant an impossibility.

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I think you need to read my post the whole way threw?:thumbsup:
Or just more carefully.