Flowering Cannabis: Week by Week Guide!
Flowering Cannabis: Week by Week Guide!
Week-by-week Flowering Stages
Treated well, looked after and well fed, cannabis plants will grow vigorously.
In fact, they grow so well that on a week by week basis, you can see clearly visible changes as time passes.
This continues once the plant begins to flower, and we thought it would be a good idea to run through the weekly stages of flowering for you.
Flowering usually begins once your plants begin to enjoy longer periods of uninterrupted darkness.
From here on in, your plants will begin to put all their energy into producing buds rather than growing.
Flowering should begin when you switch your lights to between 10 and 12 hours of darkness.
Obviously with so many different strains of cannabis, there will be some variations in the flowering period, but you can take all this information as a guide.
In general terms, the flowering period will last for between seven and nine weeks.
In weeks one through three of the initial flowering phase, your plant doesn’t stop growing and buds miraculously appear.
Instead, you may well witness your plant undergoing a growth spurt and some varieties will double in height in the three-week period.
Take note that while this is still recognized as the early stage of flowering, your plant or plants will need plenty of nutrients, so now is not the time to be stingy.
Come week two and you may notice the appearance of small white pistils on female plants. These fine white hairs will ultimately turn to buds. In a male plant, these hairs don’t appear, but instead the plant will produce pollen sacs.
By week three the growth spurt will begin to slow down and you may begin to see signs of your first buds. It’s like becoming a parent for the first time if you are a cannabis plant virgin.
Week four and all plant growth will have stopped, and while your buds will develop white hairs, they should become noticeably larger as well.
Week five will see your buds become thicker, while new buds may start growing along the plant’s cola. You should also notice an intense but pleasant odour coming from your plant or plants.
Weeks six through eight will see the build-up to harvesting.
This is a good time to consider ‘flushing’ your plant – eliminating the nutrients and providing only water.
The trichomes on your plant may start turning a milky white, and as your plant nears the perfect harvesting time, the thrichomes will turn an amber colour with an opaque clarity.
Once you r trichomes are the perfect colour, get harvesting, as it is at this particular point the THC levels in your plant will be at their maximum.
Love this video lot of information in short time
Your advice regarding the glandular trichomes being at their peak in THC when amber is incorrect. The amber colour in the trichomes is when they have begun Oxidising and that is the degradation stage. This is where THC levels drop and it converts into CBN (sedative)
I had 3 harvest already I look at the trichomes to be an amber color as well letting the leaves turn yellow just a bit before harvesting
By the time the trichomes are amber the THC starts to degrade… that’s my only issue with this informative video… the more amber the trichomes the less the THC.
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Do u feed plant food to budding pot plants
My weed plant now 4months old.but no flowering. Why is that?
It isn’t helpful to animate the pistils the exact same as the trychomes. They aren’t the same so it just seems lazy. Thanks for your effort though!
You guys should also mention males more in detail for beginners that watch this and are not aware!
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Is there any videos that talk about hermaphrodite and the plant life cycle.
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So flowering occurs when you put your plants in the dark ?!
Thanks for the vid G. Keep up the work. There needs to be more informative vids like this around.
This video just hit different I RELATE SO HARD TO THIS THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO I COULD ASK FOR ima a Virgin plant growing father and when you said that I was like, THATS MEE
I love the British voice
Child-like animation? Really?
Let me guess… You don’t respond to your subscribers comments?
I wouldn’t consider 8weeks enough time, only the very few fastest will be ripe by then.
I would only start flushing week 8, then start looking at 10-11 weeks for harvest.
The most simple of explanations and teaching that will help new growers like myself 👍🏻👍🏻
Narrator’s voice makes you trust him like 10000% 😆
Amber colours in tri homes means it is on the level of cbd not thc when it’s pure milky that’s your highest thc level u can get…
I’m from Aussie & we love our thc over in america ppl leave it till it’s fully medical marijuana which is amber colour.
Even though this is something I already know, the art style makes it so entertaining to watch. Like the infographics show and others.
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1 of my plants are at least 3 weeks old and my other is about 2 weeks old. When could i see if its a male or a female? Can i have 2 growing in 1 pot? This is my 3rd try growing but this is the best growth i had yet
This is what I need, thank you for the video.
What i would like to know is light intensity ive hurd that run your lights at 3/4 power for the first 3 weeks of bud and then increase intensity to 100 % this is to control the stretch and increase bud size does anyone know anything about this?
Super cool animated flower video!!
crappy useless animation
Hi experts, I’m 17 and if I take edibles once a week what health effects should I expect?
Yeah I love this freaking channel I’m growing 3 giants plants and all from the info I learned here DEFINITELY SUBSCRIBE NOW 🫡
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I thought the thc was highest was when they r milky not amber
This is exactly what I was looking for, just a week by week thing of what I can expect in video form lol
Those buds look like pollen sacs lol
Great Video 🔥💨 Thanks for sharing 🤘
Best explanation on the Internet. No bunch of bullshit stoner science
In december i will be celebrating my first year growing and by far i
Would always use a jewerlers loop to look at the trichomes (they look like little white mushrooms)
I dont like to wait when the trichomes becomes amber because then it least thc psycoactive effects
Id suggest to harvest it when the trichomes are cloudy white
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Great video