Ive never seen anything like that. I know a guy who harvests his autos in stages. He'll cut the top buds, then by doing so he allows more light to the lowers. Lets them get bigger, then harvests those
Longest I've went is 56 days. Seen a few guys go upto 65.
Lots of folk get to 6 weeks and give up so flip them. 2 days later pistils appear so they asume they were photos but in reality it usually takes at least a week to see pistils. Sometimes 2 or more.
So whenever you see "yeah I flipped them 3 days ago and they're flowering so I know they're photos" they're all wrong cos it just doesn't happen that fast.
Btw, top pic looks like she needs adjusting. Is that soil or coco in the pots?
If it's coco I can sort it but no idea about soil growing.
It was my bad. Put another light in for flower and plugged it directly into the powerbar like an idiot. 1 light was on 24/7 for a week before I noticed and my plants sure did not like it. All kinds of problems. Getting back on track tho. They look much better. They all stopped growing for that week and showed deficiencies. Its in soil. Once I fixed the light problem they all took off again.
7 weeks for an auto, on average I’d say 5 by 7 if you’re still not shooting pistils Then some stress fucked em up I’ve had some that start flowering at like Week 3/4 on a 18/6 lighting. Outside usually around the 4 week mark. But noticed any stress will set that time back a week or so and changing your lighting to a longer dark can and will introduce a change for flowering by making the plants think there father along then they are. But autos should flip them self’s the name auto isn’t cause they grow automatically it’s cause they flower on an automatic timeing based on a here age. Not saying there’s n out shitty stuff out there some places just have bad genetics. And shouldn’t be selling them.