the real way to know how many weeks into flower

ok ok im sick and tired of hearing this phrase (my plants are 9 weeks in and not ready)

then they say 9 weeks from when they switched the lights to 12/12....IM SORRY TO SAY THIS BUT THATS NOT WHEN YOU START COUNTING WEEKS...you start counting weeks from when you see the sex of the plant. that why when you send pictures of you plant that you think has been flowering for 9 weeks and people tell you you have 2 or 3 weeks left to go is because a marijuana plant takes anywhere from 1 week to 3 weeks to show its sex and you pot plant is not at 9 weeks but is really 6 or 7 weeks

so don't count from when you flipped over to 12/12 count from when you saw if your plants a girl or a boy. youll get way better results that way.

so if ur plants were clones and they were already showing sex then u would count from day 1 of flower

Dude my plants sex on an 18/6 light cycle they show at about 35-40days into veg and i veg for 50-60 days then go to 12/12 and my plants flower in 8-9 weeks every time just like there suppose to and if u grow sativas they flower for 12-16 weeks and i always harv by the look of my trichomes nomatter how many weeks it takes to mature!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no if your plants where clones and they have sex on the cuttings then the cutting has to re veg and there for not flower more but instead grow roots.

indyman said:

Dude my plants sex on an 18/6 light cycle they show at about 35-40days into veg and i veg for 50-60 days then go to 12/12 and my plants flower in 8-9 weeks every time just like there suppose to and if u grow sativas they flower for 12-16 weeks and i always harv by the look of my trichomes nomatter how many weeks it takes to mature!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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thats odd ive only seen preflowers after 50 days but for the most part people do not veg to that point. what im saying is if there are no pre flowers and you switch the lights from 18/6 to 12/12 you have to wait for the plant to show sex and there for when you see sex you start counting

dude so what ur saying is a plant only shows sex in flower thats not right all my mothers show sex in 24 so there would be no reveging because they never left veg i would say that if a plant isnt showing when it goes into flower then yea count from whenever you see its sex but if its already showing when it hits flower then count from day one of flower thats how i see it

HolyGhost23 said:

no if your plants where clones and they have sex on the cuttings then the cutting has to re veg and there for not flower more but instead grow roots.

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It seems that you think that a plant has to be flowered to show flowers.
That is not the case.Here is a pic of a male that never got any less than 20 hours of light a day.
My plants flower in the time they should from 12/12.The Barneys Farm Sweet Tooth that I have going right now is a 9-10 week strain.I'm not even into the eighth week yet and I'm planning on taking them down in a few days.I'll add a pic of the sweet tooth as well.

I think what he is saying is when you turn to 12/12 it take 1-3 weeks for it to start producing the buds, not just preflowers. Once you see the new hairs popping out from inducing flowering that is when you start the timer.

jebus2029 said:

I think what he is saying is when you turn to 12/12 it take 1-3 weeks for it to start producing the buds, not just preflowers. Once you see the new hairs popping out from inducing flowering that is when you start the timer.

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exactly. it does take time for the plantsto grow the buds regardless of if you know sex. what im trying to say is that if you count from when you switch the lights your gonna be a couple of weeks off then if you start the count from when you see bud production

Well then you are still incorrect.
Like I said that is a photo of a 9-10 week strain and that is not even eight weeks after switching to 12/12.
Hope this helps.

Huh?? said:

Well then you are still incorrect.
Like I said that is a photo of a 9-10 week strain and that is not even eight weeks after switching to 12/12.
Hope this helps.

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It could have a second wave of growth coming, but if it looks ready and the trichomes are a good ration for you it may be safer to go ahead and cut her.

May be a different phenotype also.

problems with flowering
45 days into veg 45 days into flower plants showing hard time to flower lights on 12/12 3000k 100,000 lumens
but showing more signs of veg the flower??

Unsexed plant AKA regular seeds = Start when first pistils show in 12/12
Clones and known females = Start soon as it starts 12/12 if vegged long and pistils show. If not same way when first pistils show = starting time.
Just how i do it and makes sense.

Every expert I have read said to start counting flowering the day of 12/12. I always count from first day of 12/12 and my plants are always done in the 8-9 week time, all indicas of course.

jebus2029 said:

It could have a second wave of growth coming, but if it looks ready and the trichomes are a good ration for you it may be safer to go ahead and cut her.

May be a different phenotype also.

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There is no other growth spurt coming,80% of the pistils are dead.I could've harvested last week if it weren't for the flush.This is my first time working with this strain and I didn't believe it would finish so fast.

Oh yeah,and all six of the barneys farm sweet tooth that a friend of mine grew(that were from seed)finished sooner too.He told me that he remembered them being ready in 7 weeks.And they were obviously not all the same phenotype.
All of the strains that I've grown usually finish in the time frame that they should.

this lil clone i had showed sex a week after i got it and i had the lights on 24/0 and 20/4..i already knew it was ganna be female tho im just sayin..the pistols starting showing before 50days or whatever some of u people are saying..its up to ur plant to show sex or up to u to switch to 12/12 to find out..and isnt the first day of flower the first day of 12/12

god damn people. Everybody is talking and trying to make things so much fucking harder than they need to be! All he's saying is: for those of you who don't veg for 50+ days (or untill you see sex) don't start counting flowering weeks as soon as you switch to 12/12, start counting weeks when you see signs of sex.

Example: So if you see sex the day you switch to 12/12, start counting the weeks! If you do not see signs of sex when you shitch to 12/12 don't start counting the weeks, wait untill you see signs of sex THEN start counting the weeks.

I think I know what your tryin to say HolyGhost23

If not please correct me.

LOL...this topic always gets peoples goat. Boneman dont start the flower clock until his gurls start flowering. Definately not the day I switch to 12/12 even though I may have pre-flowers during veg.
By starting the clock when they start flowering, my times normally end up very close to the breeders advertisement.

^^^If that were the case then this plant would still have another four or five weeks.

I dont care what anyone says.... those good looking ladies are ready to be hung out to dry... Nice job