LESSON 9 - Flowering State




Naturally in the wild as the winter months come the sunlight in the day decreases to about 12 hours. In outdoor grows, around autumn time the plants will naturally flower. Indoor marijuana growers mimic this process by switching their lights to around 12 hours of lights, 12 hours of dark. After switching to the flowering times you must repeat them throughout the duration of the plants remaining life, so timers are usually bought from stores to do this job so the manual stress is taken off the grower. Also, the dark cycle must have uninterrupted darkness or your plants may turn into hermaphrodites or not flower at all. The plants can stand as much as natural moonlight would provide for a couple minutes and a small green light can be bought if you must work on your plants in the dark.

The plant food must also be changed at this time from the 20-20-20 to atleast a 10-20-10 or 15-30-15 flowering plant food or higher K level. Also when buying this plant food look for a list of trace elements other than the standard three.

At around one or two weeks white hairs will develop from the calyx of some plants, these are the females. Buds will only develop on female marijuana plants. Balls will emerge from the other plants, these are the males. Once the males are spotted throw them out immediately. Sometimes due to stress a plant will have both balls and white hairs, these are hermaphrodites and must also be discarded as quickly as possible. you can do this by using heavy duty scissors or shears and cutting them gently at the bottom of their stem. Do not be too rough on the males as you may burst a ball and pollen can ruin your whole crop.

Eventually the white hairs will turn to a reddish or brownish color, when over 75% of the plant is covered with these colored hair the plant is ready to harvest.


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