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It has been 2 weeks and 1 day since I've switched my plants into the flowering phase but so far there has been no sign of flowers. How long does it take after switching to 12/12 that flowers appear? I am still using 20-20-20 fert and is planning to use this throughout the whole process until next crop, is this fert affecting the flowering? Thanks!
go for a 15-40-15 or any flowering ferts. It will show the sex one of these days I guess
Pictures would help alot. It could be numerous of things.
kd
Ferts could be affecting flowering. Withholding nitrogen is part of force-flowering. So go for a fert with a low 1st number.
Light cycle- if you've got leaks, you've got problems.
Maturity- If plants aren't sexually mature alternating nodes they will take longer to show.
Timing- males tend to show towards the end of the first week, females a little after. So you could look on it as a good sign that you haven't found any males yet.
I had males show less then a week into 12/12, and some females not show until after 2 weeks. I flowered rather early for their size so they took a little longer. My clones started showing actual bud development a week into 12/12, but they are clones so they keep their mother's maturity so they are fully ready. Some strains just take a little longer too.
If stuff doesnt change, I would definitely look into light leaks. And yeah, 20/20/20 is to much nitrogen.
yeah females show up later...so its probably a good thing...wait a few more days...they will show their big tits.
Thanks for all your inputs!
I checked out my plants today and saw a little bit of flowering but only about 5% of the whole crop, they are very small little pristils. These were from clones so they should mature quicker right? But I think I might have a light leak problem which I will fix tonight. Thanks again!
Conditions, strain, history...it all can affect when they bud. These are about 10 days into flowering, but they were recovering from some transportation shock.
Damn that's 10 days only?! Mine is 2 weeks and its not even like that.. Less flowers =(
It can take up to 3 weeks just to show preflowers, and if the plants arnt mature enough to do so, they wont.
those are from clones, which as you read, carry the age of the mother so they were already mature. Those clones were rooted, then had 3 weeks of veg growth, and then into flowering. My unknown soil sativas were far less developed after 2 weeks as they were grown from seed with only 4 weeks of veg.Quote:
Originally Posted by tekneeqs
good point, those plants are matureQuote:
Originally Posted by Racerx
maybe bump up the P a little bit? or if your room has light leaks.. those are the only 2 things i can think of... are you using a HPS
i went really light on my dry nutes and my plants showed sex in 4 days under a 400w hps with 30 days vegging--and that was from seed
grown for years, but never read a lot about it, just used trial and error. quite a few of my grows haven't shown any flowers for over a month after going 12/12. my current crop is only now starting to develop flowers after 6wks of 12/12. They are large plants though, over two metres high at the moment, so don't know if that makes a difference to when the flowers show.