Moved from 24/7 MH to ~12/12 outdoors -- slow flowering?

[Purple Daddy]

I have one plant with purple flowers and I think this one is genetic because all of my plants are growing under the same environment and only one has purple flowers.

[3rick]

Back in my soil grows I use to play with the option of taking them outside, back and forth. I live in Washington, where a summer day can be 80-90 and the very next day, low 60s. But as long as the handling is gentle, the plants love the sun, and it's like they open up their arms and embrace it. But also, flowering does take a while, and in your pictures I dont see any white pistils. IMO there's nothing to worry about, your plants look great and they look like they are about to go into full swing. I will say though, any kind of added shock during flower stage, IE moving them, will have greater effects then if in Veg. I personally have noticed this with my own experiments..

The pics don't really capture it. The lav is definitely starting to show pistils and I've got a bunch of sepals and new bud sites on the pre-98s. I'm pretty committed to finishing these outside, so the only moving I'm doing is daily rotation. I'm starting to feel really good about these and just know that the more I tamper, the more chances I have to mess it all up.

I have one plant with purple flowers and I think this one is genetic because all of my plants are growing under the same environment and only one has purple flowers.

Out of curiosity, what are you growing? It definitely sounds like it's in the genotype if they are all the same.

[Purple Daddy]

Out of curiosity, what are you growing? It definitely sounds like it's in the genotype if they are all the same. >>>>>>>>>

A batch of seeds from a friend who got them all from the same plant last year. All the plants grew out the exact same except for this one plant. The pistils started out white but as they grew out turned purple and the flower development is different from the rest, my guess is this particular plant is Indica dominant.

Most of the large sun leaves have died off but the branches are very, very heavey with small sun leaves bunched up around the flowers. All of the other non clones had very large and fat leaves all the way up until harvest and the buds were well developed with minimal leaf material surrounding them.
It is possible he got this particular seed from a different source or it could have just been laying around. He just handed me 20 seeds and asked me to grow him a nice plant.

[3rick]

Here's a (bad) side shot of what's becoming the top cola. Look close to the main stem and you can see 3 bud sites forming right at the top.
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Here is a close-up shot of one of my lav's buds. Lots of sepals already there and pistils starting to show.
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