Flowering Marijuana Plants for Buds

Flowering Marijuana Plants for Buds indoors or Outdoors, cannabis plants flower in the fall when days become shorter and when the marijuana plant signals itself that annual life is at its end. Indoors, you determine when marijuana flowering takes place simply by changing the growing nutrients, grow light bulbs, and the hours of light the marijuana plants receive each day. During flowering, leafy growth slows and marijuana flowers begin to form. Flowers without seeds are known as marijuana buds and better known as sinsemilla. If a male cannabis plant is in the grow room and its pollen is exposed, it will find its way to your female plants and pollinate it creating cannabis buds filled with seeds. Knowing when to flower your cannabis or marijuana plants is very important, otherwise you will end up with low quality buds.

Flowering Marijuana for Buds

2 weeks into flowering
white pistols showing signs of female

After you have pre-flowered your plants to determine their sex, its time to decide if you want to flower females for buds or if you want to flower males for pollen and cross-breeding. Female plants are known for their heavy, potent flowers filled with resin. The best strains for indoor growing are the ones that stay short and bushy with branches close together, creating denser buds and requiring less space to be grown in. Cannabis plants will start to flower when they receive 12 hours of light per day. In order to force flowering you also need to change the nutrients and the lights from Mini Sunburst Metal Halide 175w w/ Lamp
to Hydrofarm 1000 Watt HPS Radiant Economy Grow Light System. Most strains will show signs of flowers within 2 weeks of being introduced into flowering. The flowers will appear near the top of the plant, small white pistols will appear. The flowering time varies from strain to strain, averaging 9 weeks. Once your plants are done flowering you will need to harvest them. My videoshows you step by step on how to do this.

Flowering Marijuana for Seeds

Male Pollen/Seeds 3 weeks into flowering.

Male Cannabis Plants flower approx. 1-2 weeks before females. When male plants flower they release pollen, which will find its way to a female, creating buds filled with seeds. If you do not want seeds you need to remove the plant as soon as it shows signs of being a male. If you are choosing to cross-breed, you will want to have female plants in the room you are using for flowering marijuana.

 

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  1. Hello
    So when we see the pistols forming should I switch out of my (vegetive state nutrients) and begin our potassium and phosphate treatment? I think the answer is yes . Just need to make sure lol

  2. I think its funny all these people saying that cfls dont work,I have three beautiful girls in my grow box under 8 100 watt cfls and they are perfect,healthy and strong. Why do people have to make it harder for a first timer,if you are on a budget go with cfls they work great… As long as you feed them right and dont over water are under water you will be fine. Yes metal halide are high pressure sod would be better but not everyone can have a set up for them.

  3. I started my vegging back in the begging of july 18 on until Aug.10th I put them into flowering blueberry my plants are atleast 6 feet tall the bottom half I see buds form but up top there are buds but the buds are not forming yet Iam useing 2/ 1000 watts bulbs and 6/65 watts 3900 lumens 2700k soft white what is the problem what am I not doing right? I use all purpose plant food my ph level is kept between 6.5 and 7.5 I also give them 15mins on of Co2 daily up to 1 hour why are my plants not buding. I have 8 plants in 20 gallon pots and 16 in 5 gallon pots

    • the white light is not good!! you need sodiums. all purpose plant food is no good!! u need to use specific food for flowering, specific food for vegetative. if you see on my site i am using the general hydroponics 3 part flora series nutrients. 20 gallon pots are too big. causing the roots to grow to long resulting in long lengthy growth.

    • you can use a buding bulb or grow bulb for veg as long as its on 18 6 lighting use floral noval grow and bloom both one part chems work great easy to use then the bigger the pots the bigger you can grom them but it will be a longer grow cycle its about 1 month to 1 gallon of dirt use that it will help and there is many other things you can do look into it co2 is dont change that i used the exhail sponge that makes co2 on its own  

    • no, the spectrum will not be sufficient for the plant to get the proper nutes and vitamins needed to grow healthy. always use a halide for veg and HPS for bloom.?

    • bro the more light spec the better i use both thru veg and flower but it will grow it your right its better to use as directed but try uesing both lights for veg and flower so hps and mh both running at the same time with 18 6 or 12 12 it works try it

  4. would 2 65 watt cfl, each 4300 lumens so 8600 lumens in total, and both 6500k be enough to grow just one plant? and when its time to flower im planning to use 3 of 42 watt cfl,each 2700k. is this enough?

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