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
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
Flowering Marijuana for Seeds
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.
when going from clone, how do you create the perfect shaped plant? also, when you say cut, do you mean you literally take the whole branch off and cut the whole top off the plant?
1st day flowering
I only have flourescent tubes for lights can I use warm white for flowering or cud I replace them weak lights with the sun and make up the 12 12 time with flourescents
Won’t work. For starters, the sun not likely compatable with flouresent fixtures(it uses a different ballast). Second of all plants just don’t like the sun as it’s not the right color spectrum.
In nature, plants are supplied with 24 hours of metal halide, until september when a great high pressure sodium beam appears in the southern sky for their flowering season. In addition the rain supplies them with a pH corrected three part nutrient system and occasional cal-mag, silica blast and bud booster.
And I’m guessing you didn’t watch the video.
How do you know if the male pollinated will I see powder
yes, the “nut sacks” will open and if u look close enough u can see pollen.. or if u shake the plant it will create “dust”.
I have twenty one plants in veg, they are all starting to show hairs, they ar nine weeks old now and are four feet tall. Is the hairs normal under eighteen hrs of light?
yes this is normal. after 8 weeks they usually automatically start showing signs of sex. bud them!!