Am i close?

jmatarazzo

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This is my first grow.please be patient with me. Ive been in 12-12 for almost 2 weeks. Since i havent grown before i would like if i could get a response if im getting close to seeing some actual bud. These are picks of the 3 tall branches at the top. As for derails. Its a pineapple chunk. Nutes are foxfatms trio. Its in a 6 1/2 gallon pot. Its also in a 3x3x6 grow tent with 4 23warr day cfl and 4 23 watt soft cfl.
Thanks you.
 

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wiethe20

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It takes a minute to show sex when flipped if they weren't matured enough, I mean you can flip anytime but it will be a little while, some count weeks from flip, some count weeks from first sight of sex
 

wiethe20

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I was answering to your question if your getting close...you say 2 weeks..the way I count your at maybe 5 days of flower...

I have terrible luck with regular seeds...ALWAYS MALE but i buy feminized seeds to.. just remember that there is a % it could be male even tho its .2 it's still happens ...

I wasn't saying you had a male or they werent preflowers...my statement was meaning to some eyes your not at 2 weeks
 

AGardener

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it takes 10 days of 9-11.5 hours of uninterrupted darkness for the plant to switch from veg to flowering. So you should know around the 10th day of it flowering what the sex is
 

GrowinDad

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They look a little behnd but let nature take its course. No point staring at a pot of water waiting for it to boil. Though normal if you have never made soup before...

Pineapple chunk was slow for me, at least to finish. Disappointing strain for me.

Hang tight. Waiting fills!
 

AGardener

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Here This is what I WANTED to tell you

PHOTOPERIODISM IN MARIJUANA
The term short-day is something of a misnomer; what marijuana needs is a sufficiently long night.
Marijuana flowers only if it has been kept into he dark for at least 9-11.5 hours depending on variety, this critical light period occurs for 5-7 days consecutively.
Interruption of an otherwise long night by red light (666 nm) prevents flowering unless it is followed by irradiation with far-red (730 nm) light.
An intense exposure to far-red light at the start of the night reduces the dark re-requirement by two hours. These responses are mediated by phytochrome.

Phytochrome exists in two inter-convertible forms-
Pr because it absorbs red (R; 660 nm) light;
Pfr because it absorbs far-red (FR; 730 nm) light

These are the relationships:
Absorption of red light by Pr converts it into Pfr
Absorption of far-red light by Pfr converts it into Pr
In the dark, Pfr spontaneously converts back to Pr over a two hour time period.
Sunlight is richer in red (660 nm) than far-red (730 nm) light, so at sundown all the phytochrome is Pfr.
During the night, the Pfr converts back to Pr.
The Pr form is needed for the release of the flowering signal.

Therefore marijuana needs 9-11.5 hours of darkness for several days of this regimen in which it converts the Pfr present at sundown into Pr to carry out the supplemental reactions leading to the release of the flowering signal.
If this process is interrupted by a flash of 660 nm light, the Pr is immediately reconverted to Pfr and the night's work is undone.
A subsequent exposure to far-red (730 nm) light converts the pigment back to Pr and the steps leading to the release of "florigen" can be completed.
Exposure to intense far-red light at the beginning of the night sets the clock ahead about two hours or so by eliminating the need for the spontaneous conversion of Pfr.

It requires 10 days to switch to the flowering cycle and 10 days to switch back to vegetative
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