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.
my plants are at 9 weeks and are budding nicely I was thinking I had three weeks left but I just can’t see how they will be ready on this time also the buds and top leaves are looking sick and vibrant in colour how ever all the leaves under neathe are yellowing and falling off please any advice needed also it is in a grow tent thanks
its natural.. use a jewelers loupe as i show u in the video “right time to harvest”
to anyone who thinks cfls wont work they are just stubborn and set in their ways. i have 6 100 watt equivalent cfls in the day light spectrum 6500k. they are working beyond what i expect and are perfect for the guy who’s growing in his closet for his own personal smoke. they are not ideal for mass growing since you’d need so many and dont want to run the risk of overloading the power cord, but for a few personal plants dont let anyone tell you they wont work.
and if your plants stem is weak you need to move the light closer. you plant could be stretching too fast. cfls dont get too hot so you can have them very close.also a small fan will cause the branches to wiggle and become fibrous and strong.
Im using cfl’s and my stems are thick and look like champs lol the way i did this was with a fan from the beging because if u use a fan then the plant uses more nutrents to build a thicker stem because of the air movment that is happing
I started my plant back feburary indoors and once the timing was ok i put it outside, its now april and shes wanting to flower, i have no way of stopping it but its also not time for flowering yet, what should i do?
Oh ok. Thanks. If I was to add mor cfl’s would that help? Can’t getanythng else. I justtake old light fixtures from my job that are being thrown out. Or is there a cheap effective alternative? I’m flat broke :/
more light the better, as long as there is no heat.
Hey. My first time attempting to grow. Right now I have 4 cfls 6inches above the top of my one nd only plant grown from sour d discovered my plant is 4 weeks old and 14inches tall with 3 leaves per branch. The main stem is extremely weak how ever and droops. Have had a splint up for support for abt a week nd a half. How can I make the main stem stronger and how long shud I wait on switching from my 24/0 to 12/12? Thinking prolly wait till 9 or 10 weeks in.. good choice?
cfl is your problem. not enough light for your plants to grow strong. if you watch and or read my content you sill hear me say a million times that cfl’s dont get the job done! 9-10 weeks is a very long time.. thats the amount of time it takes me to harvest from clone to finish!
Did u have a fan blowing from beging of planting? If you have a fan that is blowing not so much directly at the plant but make sure it moves the plant then it will grow a thicker stem from the beging but not much u can do now