Very interesting information, thepaan.

I sure do wish they did all that research with cannabis and rice, instead of arabidopsis and rice.

It seems, from what I've read about this on web pages you have provided and ones I have found, that different plants use this mechanism to produce flowers at different times or day-light/night lengths. I would guess that the timing of flowering, that was evolved in each respective plant species, was determined by its survival strategy. Early bloom must have an advantage for one plant while late bloom has an advantage for the other.

It would be nice if there were scientific studies on this in the cannabis plant. I doubt many, if any, of the people who grow cannabis, have the resources to do that.
pepurr Reviewed by pepurr on . Light cycles and budding hormones? I read somewhere that cannabis plants are always producing a hormone that induces budding. Also this hormone is destroyed by light and this is why the plant will not bud when the days are long. The light is destroying the hormone enough so that it has little, if any, effect. Then when the light period is reduced to 12 hours, the reduction in light allows the hormone level to get high enough to allow the plant to bud. I was wondering if having even less light would make much of a difference Rating: 5