Hey i wanted to know if the plant has started a staggered leaf pattern is it old enough to start flowering and should pre flowers appear soon? or do they only appear when you begin flowering?
???????????? It takes atleast 1 month of 24/7 with atleast a 400watt mh/hps lamp to see any signs of a PREflower. u can indeed start to flower a cannibis palnt as soon as it pops the soil, but, if you are going to take the risk of growing your own stone, do it right, veg it for atleast a month, or untill its 15-24 inches tall, and trigger it into flowering cycle 12/12. do some research on the net u will find all the q and a's u need to know.
You need at least seven full leaf sets for the plant to be strong enough to support the bud and to have developed a root system capable of suppling the nutes to the bud. But as far as 1 month of 24/7 of lights under 400 watt HID lights... yeah for soil but not hydro. Hydro will get you there in half the time.