Flower Time and Water

Just placed my 6 week old plants (3 weeks pre-veg, 3 weeks veg) into 11g pots a few days ago from their 10cm pots. I'm now giving 200ml per day, I hope that's ok (?).
Anyways, I was expecting a 3 week vegetative period then place them into a flowering cycle. Only now I read that you have to wait for little flowers to appear to show they're ready, and that starting a 12/12 cycle before this does not quicken the plants into flowering.
I have Strawberry sativa strain growing, anyone know when flowering can start?

Cheers,

Nick

 

Hey Nick,

Some show preflowers some don't. When the plant shows alternating nodes it is ready - earlier than that is fine too FYI

Don't get in the habit of watering everyday (unless they need it - in which case repot the girl). Give a complete watering and then let the soil dry (a finger's depth or fan leaves beginning to droop at the bottom of the plant). They like the wet/dry cycle and helps drive root growth.

 

Nice one BudBill... always with the righteous info.
Alternating... I'll have to check when back from work! It'll be nice my grow space now whirring away till midnight each night.

 

some sticklers suggest that you should wait until those preflower calyxes show, and it prolly is ideal, but we're mostly concerned with getting a quicker harvest, meaning force flowering, which is fine; cannabis plants are good at rolling with the punches.

whenever I grow a sativa dominant, it always feels like the flowering process is so much slower, both identifying sex and flower ripening, but then when it's done it turns out it was only ten or fourteen days longer than the indica dominants. I love sativas, but their flower time and height at full maturity can be annoying

 

You said it right "ideal" - some plants will not show preflowers even though it is the exception not the rule. Long ago I got invited to see some 4 footers with no preflowers. Just the "node spur" <- some do confuse the two.

Well you can shorten the cycle a bit with the sativa doms. Less light say 10 hours of light only. It is marginal on time saving and does hurt the yield. But the opposite works as well.

I do love gardening in general and patience is indeed a virtue.