Thundercat
Well-Known Member
So a couple tid bits. Your plants look very happy and healthy great job for a second grow!
What breeder are those Cindy 99s from, they look pretty different from most I've grown or seen pictures of. Most Cindy plants have fairly slender leaves, really all three of your plants look pretty identical. It should be interesting to see how they change as they flower.
I also want to point out something that many new growers don't understand. Flowering time is extremely subjective and any numbers in days of weeks given by a breeder is a VERY LOOSE estimate, and not written in stone. Real breeders have real well controlled grows which produce nearly perfect plants. Your grow will be different then theirs. You also don't know what phenotypes you are getting if your running seeds which can add another variable. Different phenotypes of the same strains can take weeks different amounts of time.
So right off the bat counting flowering time is sort of irrelevant. HOWEVER if you are going to count flower time, it starts when the plants begin to show flowers. Most breeders understand this so the times they do use refer to true flowering time NOT 12/12 time unless otherwise specified.
I explain this to newer growers so they can understand the plants they are growing better. When you switch the lights to 12/12 the plants have to go through a transition period. That typically takes 7-14 days for genetically mature plants, but heavily depends on strains and the genetics maturity. You can run a seedling in 12/12 lighting from germination, but it WON'T start to flower for usually 4-8 weeks because it needs to mature before its capable. You switching the lights doesn't instantly make flowers form, it takes time for the plants to build up hormones and transition its growth to reproduction.
Counting from 12/12 flip is totally arbitrary since different strains/phenotypes take different amounts of time to begin flowering. However counting from when you see flowers, just like when growing outdoors or any other plant, provides an accurate gauge of what week of growth the plant is in.
If you grow a cannabis plant outside where you don't flip the lights, you wouldn't say its flowering until you see signs that it is making flowers. You wouldn't say a tomato plant is flowering if it didn't have any buds on it?
What breeder are those Cindy 99s from, they look pretty different from most I've grown or seen pictures of. Most Cindy plants have fairly slender leaves, really all three of your plants look pretty identical. It should be interesting to see how they change as they flower.
I also want to point out something that many new growers don't understand. Flowering time is extremely subjective and any numbers in days of weeks given by a breeder is a VERY LOOSE estimate, and not written in stone. Real breeders have real well controlled grows which produce nearly perfect plants. Your grow will be different then theirs. You also don't know what phenotypes you are getting if your running seeds which can add another variable. Different phenotypes of the same strains can take weeks different amounts of time.
So right off the bat counting flowering time is sort of irrelevant. HOWEVER if you are going to count flower time, it starts when the plants begin to show flowers. Most breeders understand this so the times they do use refer to true flowering time NOT 12/12 time unless otherwise specified.
I explain this to newer growers so they can understand the plants they are growing better. When you switch the lights to 12/12 the plants have to go through a transition period. That typically takes 7-14 days for genetically mature plants, but heavily depends on strains and the genetics maturity. You can run a seedling in 12/12 lighting from germination, but it WON'T start to flower for usually 4-8 weeks because it needs to mature before its capable. You switching the lights doesn't instantly make flowers form, it takes time for the plants to build up hormones and transition its growth to reproduction.
Counting from 12/12 flip is totally arbitrary since different strains/phenotypes take different amounts of time to begin flowering. However counting from when you see flowers, just like when growing outdoors or any other plant, provides an accurate gauge of what week of growth the plant is in.
If you grow a cannabis plant outside where you don't flip the lights, you wouldn't say its flowering until you see signs that it is making flowers. You wouldn't say a tomato plant is flowering if it didn't have any buds on it?
im actually proud of myself because if you seen from where i started and what i've grown to where i am now it's a HUGE improvement in quality and size of the buds as well as equipment i am using. at one point i was growing with a fucking desk lamp with an incandescent bulb. my plants aint the biggest, healthiest, etc.. but at the end of the day improvement is what im looking for. as long as i got improvement in a grow then im doing something right.
