Apparently I have an auto-flowering plant in my vegetating room... I rolled the lights up to 24/0 to try to stunt her back into vegetating mode, and the bitch is STILL trying to flower. She was a sweet little girl until she refused to stop flowering, then she became the bitch! I was HOPING to make a mother out of her and keep her vegetating.. but I guess THAT'S out the window!

Unfortunately, I don't have the space in my flowering boxes to move her over to it. I do have one plant in the flowering boxes that has progressed solidly to milky trichomes, but no amber yet... And I am pretty determined to stay the course until I see at least 50% amber. Yea, I "could" harvest her now, but I REALLY don't want to - - - not yet.

I'm looking for suggestions here.

My first thought is to roll the MH lights back in the vegetating room to 16/8 and let the bitch flower under that until space comes available in the flowering room @ 12/12 - then move her. But I dunno what that would do to the other plants that are vegetating as I just moved them to 24/0 a week or so ago.

My second thought would be to go ahead and harvest my maturest plant even though the trichomes aren't amber yet, freeing up some space. This is NOT a "good" choice in my opinion. This plant is still growing and developing 8 buds - each of which are about 10 inches long and as thick as my forearm. But they're still filling in and "need" a little more time to mature.

On average... once you see predominately milky tricomes, how long is it until the buds finish filling out an the trichomes turn amber?

I'm spraying the plants daily (and have been all along) with super bloom nutes that are now up to 2x the strength the label recommends - and they LOVE it! I can actually SEE growth daily. The trichomes went from clear to milky in about 10 days and the buds doubled in size.

For about $35 I COULD build another flowering box for the bitch, complete with a 6 pack of CFL's. But then I'll have to listen to my wife complain about not having the space she needs to easily get to the washer and dryer. And, unfortunately, her complaint would be legitimate.

Whadda ya think? Another box and let her complain, or roll back the lights in the veggie room and hope for the best... moving this auto-flowering bitch when the other plant is harvested?

Whatever I decide to do, I need to get it done by this weekend, and I'd really appreciate some input on this. Being it's my first grow, I REALLY want to see those huge buds finish filling out and let the trichomes become amber before I harvest it. Will playing with the timing on the lights in the vegetating room do any "damage"?

HELP!
GrowingInGeorgia Reviewed by GrowingInGeorgia on . WTF??? Flowering under 16 hours of MH?? Attached are 2 images take of a plant less than 12 inches tall, "vegetating" under 16 hours of Metal Halide - FLOWERING!!! :wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf: Well, at least it's female....:thumbsup: Anybody got any ideas as to "What's the deal" that I can't seem to keep it in a vegetative mode? Any suggestions as to how to send it BACK to vegetating? I'm not ready to move it to the flowering room yet! There's no room in there! Rating: 5