Mist
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I find the comment about no preflowers interesting....
I find that using 24-0 promotes autoflowering.....
That a cycle with a dark period is better at not producing flowers.....
Not all mind you.... but some plants dont like 24-0
Anyone else notice that????
You are right about that being strain specific. I am growing a Black Russian hybrid and because of the Black Russian's propensity for getting preflowers during vegging I have to keep it on 24 hour light. If you let this hybrid get a few nights of 6 hours dark time it will start to get lots of preflowers. This isn't a real problem when I am vegging the clones with the purpose of flowering them out, but it sure puts a kink into keeping mothers. I also had the same problem with DAB years ago. And once my mother plant started getting preflowers it was a time killer to get the cuttings to vegg properly.
But in the end I don't care what strain you have a mother of, it is going to start to show signs of flowering no matter what light cycle you have it on. It is just nature at work.