Have questions about flowering process!

Does giving my babies more than 12 hours with the lights off enhance the buds even stronger? I heard that when the lights are off is when the hormone in the female plants is released to make it bud. I use 5 2700k bulbs so they are getting pretty good light.

Also, does put a small (9 inches in diameter) fan directly on the plants give it too much stress? I want to give it a good air circulation but worried about not letting them grow strong.

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The one plant that got topped is growing buds already while the other just has pistols even though they are in the same bucket and get the same water/light cycle. Is one just a different strain so it blooms later? Or is it possible one plant's roots are more dominant?

Are you trying to make seeds? If so, you're on the right track.

If not, well, you did.

Nice balls.

PS : Do a bit more homework next round.You've got a bonafide male. You can't smoke it.

are both male? or just the one w/ the balls

But, to answer your question - no, more than 12 hours of darkness wont make a (female) plant flower "better". The length of the dark portion of the photoperiod acts like an "On-Off Switch", not like a "Volume Control".

On the other hand, you can give female plants a little extra light (perhaps 13-11 or 13 1/2-10 1/2), once they have "settled in" to Flowering mode and are actually producing flowers. The additional light will result in more photosynthesis (more bud production), without triggering the plant to revert back to the Vegitative stage (providing that you keep the "Extra Light" down to an hour, or hour and a half at most). This technique is somewhat controversial because it may "flip" some strains and will only increase yield by about 10% anyway (theorhetically 8 1/2% - 12 1/2%).

the balls on that

Nice balls yo. No homo

ya unfortunately we had to cut down the male but the female is growin nicely

go to homedepot or anytoher hardware store and get 5 y splitters and pick up 5 more cfls.