Flowering Period starts 3/8/05
Once the plant has reached the size you want, you can initiate flowering by giving exactly 12 hours of darkness and 12 hours of light per day. Usually the flowers will be ripe for harvest after 7 to 9 weeks.
Flowering is induced when the level of a particular hormone reaches a critical point. This hormone is produced during the dark period (night) and destroyed by light during the day. It is important, therefore, to ensure that the dark period is totally
uninterrupted by any light , even a few minutes could disturb this sensitive process and
set backs are a real bitch at this stage…!
The flowering tops will continue to grow, in the hope of receiving pollen, for another 4 to 9 weeks and produce more resins as they get older.
Once the lights has been changed to give the plants a 12 hours of darkness, the growth pattern starts to change
considerably. In some plants Verticle growth slows considerably. Some plants will grow 2 to 3 feet in flowering and this is what ours will do the first 3 to 5 weeks ours plants will jump from 3” to close to 3 feet, the arrangement of leaves on the stem, known as the phyllotaxy, changes from the usual arrangment of opposing each other, to alternating.
Within a 5 - 7 days the beginnings of flowers start to appear.
Tetrahydrocannibinol (THC) is the psychoactive component of Cannabis. It is produced during the flowering period on the stems, leaves, and vegetation surrounding the flowers, and it is stored in glands which emerge from the surface of the plants.
The flowering areas of the female plants and the small leaves surrounding them contain the most THC. However, all the leaves from the female plant contain retrievable THC. When the plants are mature then they are harvested.
1 pic.Top to bottom to rightside of top photo go's
pinkbucket-Skunk Special 3 weeks old...
greenbucket-Grapefruit seedling 1 week old...
3 middle buckets-Grapefruit 2 buckets are 2 weeks old, & 1 week old...
2 bottom buckets-White Widow 2 weeks old...
2 pic. righthand side 3rd bucket a green one, Re-veg W/W Keep your eye on this 1 and you just might learn something trust me...?
3 pic.
resin crystals LOL you got to love em....!
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