Question about weird flowering plant

[Dwg]

Okay so I have a few plants that are 2 months old and have been in continuous 24 hour light. During a one week period I accidently had them on 12/12. (you may call me stupid over what I did next) but I reverted it to 24 hour continuous lighting to try to get them to grow more vegatively. They have been growing in a vegative-like state for about 4 weeks after that 1 week of 12/12.

Now on two of the plants I am now noticing female Pistils. On one plant I can see only two long hairs on a top node, but on the other one, there are pistils coming out on almost all the nodes! I'm confused now, are they flowering or still vegging??

Somebody please answer my question I've been searching for the answer for some time. Thanks

[faeryamos]

they are flowering but Ive heard u can actually revert it back to veggie state by putting it back on your original cycle- 24/0 or 18/6- , which it looks like u did, sometimes they do flower anyway- just stick with one cycle until ur ready to flower all the way thru harvest

[Dwg]

Thank you for such a quick reply!

[Dwg]

say somebody has some plants that they clumsily took care of. and say that these plants have been subjected to flip flops between 24/0 lighting and 12/12 lighting. But now this plant is on 12/12. I wanna know if doing all of this is going to make it take considerably longer to flower (now we have them all set on 12/12 FOR GOOD)

[toastybiz]

Many growers will put their plants into a short stint of flower cycle during veg in order to pre-sex their plants -- allow them to flower just enough to tell sex in order to yank the males -- then put them back into veg until ready for the full flower cycle.

The main reason to do this is so as not to put extra time, effort, and money (and in some cases physical space and good lighting coverage) into growing out males. It's a pain to lug water for weeks for what turns out to be males. It costs money to fertilize males. It's a pain in the rear to continue LSTing males. A grow cab can raise more seedlings than mature plants, so it can be beneficial to winnow the crop down early.

The only real disadvantage to doing this is that it slows down the veg cycle a bit. The plant will continue to veg a little bit during that pre-flower cycle, but most of its energy during that time will have switched to flowering. Many growers find the trade-off of adding a week or so to the veg cycle vs. being able to winnow out the males early to be very worthwhile. Once back to veg cycle the plant's energy goes back to vegging undiminished.

If you have pre-sexed your plants (that is girls, because you would have trashed your boys), that will not make the "true" flower cycle, when you get to it, last longer.

Part of your last comment talks about "flip flops" between veg lighting and flower lighting. To be clear, you should pre-sex only once in a plant's life -- you can start in veg, switch to flower to pre-sex, switch back to veg to grow it out, and then switch permanently to flower. But don't flip the lighting cycles any more than that, there is no benefit to it and you are subjecting your plants to unnecessary stress.

[Dwg]

Thanks for such a concise response. I appreciate the information!