Taking time to flower

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Ayrshire1976

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My blue cheese have been flowering on a 12/12 cycle for around 2 weeks now, they look perfectly healthy but yet to show signs of any pistles, is this common.

Cheers.
 
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By 2 weeks you should have the first few coming out. It's not uncommon to not see not a lot happening. Take us a photo of the nodes up close. This is why some people consider their first week of flower week 3.
 
Hugo Phurst

Hugo Phurst

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Ayrshire1976 said:
My blue cheese have been flowering on a 12/12 cycle for around 2 weeks now, they look perfectly healthy but yet to show signs of any pistles, is this common.

Cheers.
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You might have switched to 12/12 too early. A plant has to reach a certain maturity before it can flower.
I see lots of pre-flower there, did it look like that when you flipped?
 
Logan Burke

Logan Burke

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The very new growth on your bud sites are folding up and sticking together, if you look closely...your babies are doing alright. Some plants, sometimes strain dependant, sometimes environment dependant, can take longer than others to break on through to release preflowers. Administering bloom nutrients can help encourage them, I've heard anyways, I've never tested this myself though. Your plant should be just fine though, make sure you've no light leaks in your grow space as well.
 
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Ayrshire1976

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Hugo Phurst said:
You might have switched to 12/12 too early. A plant has to reach a certain maturity before it can flower.
I see lots of pre-flower there, did it look like that when you flipped?
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Yeah good point, i gave them around 2 weeks on a 250w but had some trouble germinating at the start. Might have been to eager
 
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Ayrshire1976

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Logan Burke said:
The very new growth on your bud sites are folding up and sticking together, if you look closely...your babies are doing alright. Some plants, sometimes strain dependant, sometimes environment dependant, can take longer than others to break on through to release preflowers. Administering bloom nutrients can help encourage them, I've heard anyways, I've never tested this myself though. Your plant should be just fine though, make sure you've no light leaks in your grow space as well.
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Cool man, thanks thats what i like to hear, i knew they looked fine, but just a little anxious, thanks for the help guys.
 
Logan Burke

Logan Burke

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Depends on the medium you're growing in. In DWC, you should be just fine to let your plants run in water that is at 50ppms or less. I typically stop adding any nutes during the last 1-2 weeks. I just keep adding back plain water as the plant drinks up it's current res, which allows the ppm's to slowly fall instead of just doing a res change and going from full strength nutes to none at all. Once I've added enough plain water back to where the ppm's are at about 200-300, that is when I do a res change and add back plain water. This process usually takes about 1 week. I then let the plant sit in that 0-50ppm water for 3-5 days, and then I harvest. :) Not saying it's the right way or the best way, just the way I do it.
 
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Ayrshire1976

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Im using canna soil, pistles are gradually turning a shade brown as the days go on and i was wondering if this was an indicator to go on to water or decrease the nutrients
 
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