I would not be surprised if it is temperature dependent. They love having warm roots and flower a lot better if the sun hits the pot they are in. So the warm grow space would be my guess as to what is triggering the flowering.
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Donāt know about sun hours, but peppers and tomatoes like to be hot as hell. lol
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Yup, they both like it very warm, but peppers seem to shrug off even 100F and over, whereas tomatoes
will stop setting fruit much over 95F or so.
I keep my peppers at 22/24 hours and they still pop loads of peppers. They do best outdoors under the sun when itās hot.
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Yeah, where I am it gets hot as hell and the peppers go crazy. The mind boggles how many peppers you can get off one plant in one season.
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So @MomOnTheRun and @ReikoX. When the sacs start to split would it be safe to place a zip lock bag over the branch to collect the pollen. I donāt want to cut the air circulation in the tent and obviously as I have flowering plants in it itās the only idea I can come up with to stop accidental cross pollination. Thanks
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consider placing the bag on & cutting the branch & taking it out, put in water like, well, cut flowers 
. youāll get less pollen IME but easy-peasy.
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I thought about doing that @cannabissequoia just not sure how long it would survive like that. Iāll give it an extra week for the sacs to swell a little more then Iāll remove the branch. Iād remove the entire plant but Iāve been extra careful when spraying it so I could still harvest the remaining buds from it.
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I suppose you could though be really, really careful when movingā¦my older son received a comforter for Christmas that came in a nice bag with a zipper that he almost threw out. In an instant the light bulb went off in my head that I could use it to separate 2 plants (1 boy and 1 girl) away from the rest of the grow and just spray the bottom of it a couple times a day while pollen is flying.
Now I havenāt actually done it yet to try it out though is a possibility. I just worry about the humidity building up in the bag and killing all the pollen released or giving mold issueās in the processā¦I like cannabissequioaās suggestion as people do this frequently in a windowsill with great success far away from the girls
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Thanks for responding. I think Iāll just remove the entire branch like suggested the end of this week so long as the sacs swell enough. As long as it will continue to thrive for an extra week or so I think it should be enough. The sacs are small and not as many as Iād have liked her to give but something is obviously better than nothing.
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Well basically the pollinated branch I cut and it sat in weak nutrient solution for a few days but she gave up and dried out. Pulled the sacs off, carefully split and empty inside so In the composter she goes. Iām thinking the CS may not have been strong enough to do a proper job being only 30ppm. Next time Iāll generate my own and get the ppm as high as I can.
Result = Total failure 
2 reactor 99 at the back. A cookies Kush fem and blue dream fem at the front.
Iāll veg the reactor 99s out in small tent until agent k and the older gg fem are harvested. Then move them over. Blue dream and cookies Kush Iāll veg out as long as Iām able to.
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Every plant I kill is a learning experience
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Luckily itās not the entire plant @Meesh. I was really careful when spraying her and Iām confident I had no over spray so I cut the treated branch from her. The remainder of the same plant is absolutely flying. Big fat buds and she still has around 3 weeks left to grow.
The amputee in question.
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MrSoul mentions his learnining experience spraying CS somewhereā¦ he says (something like) he wasnāt getting a fast enough or full enough conversion so he sprayed more heavily & it flopped 
ā¦ but at the time I really noted when an old timer says āwhat do beginners do? they over-do everythingā 
and so he dialed it back and made the Fem CindyXX. 
(
back to regular programmingā¦)
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I only sprayed once daily @cannabissequoia and it took 4 solid weeks to show balls. Meh. You live and learn. Iāve a few old phone chargers laying around and Iāll use the water collected out of my de humidifier (Iām assuming this will be distilled as itās more or less the same process) Iāll order a length of .999 silver wire thatās 2.5mm wide and some alligator clips and Iāll have an unlimited supply of CS for future failures 
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@Gaz29
2 of your blueberry x green crack mate. Been under 12/12 for around a week. Any day now and weāll have balls or hairs showing. Skinny thin stalks with huge leaves. Strange looking plants
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Thatās a peculiar crossā¦ 
I wonder what kind of variety will show upā¦ (trying to think of potential negatives & canāt reallyā¦except a low yielder 
)ā¦
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The one on the right looking female .?!! And waiting for a week since flipping, Iād say the other ones probably female too ā¦ ( just saying.)
They look hella light green, good luck - fingers crossed 
u get two females.
Gonna keep an eye on this one mate ā¦ 
Happy growing/smoking ,
Gaz
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Yeah they are really light green mate. I never go above 850ppm with mega crop now with any grow. They are in 8.5 litre autopots with inch of clay balls and coco fed the mega crop a little Epsom and Iāve been adding 1ml a litre P.K to the rez. The solstrips maybe making them look a lot lighter in colour also. Weāll see how much they stretch when they get going properly
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Quality over quantity my good man 
Trust me. If I could get away with growing trees like you do Iād push them to the absolute limit
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No argument here! ā¦was just pondering what variations might come from those parents & seem to recall blueberry being more modest yielding[inexperinece 
alert], or at least having more lanky, hempy sativa ancestryā¦ ??? ā¦so smaller buds on a stretchy plant could be underwhelming.
But seriously just nitpicking & typically nuts.
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