If you feel I called you or others out and questioned your growing skills and experience, I apologize. I did put a blanket statement out there, but it likely covers everyone's issues regarding autoflowering.
What size pot it was in when you started to see it start autoflowering is irrelevant. The whole plant's life is in question here.
If it was sitting in a 1 gal container for 3 weeks coming from a 3x3x3 or 5x5x5 and the roots were spinning out its probably going to start autoflowering, whether its showing sex parts or not at that point. Once you get to this point you're setting yourself up for it to start autoflowering again as soon as the roots start to spin out again. So you up pot to 3 gal and only let it stay in that for 2 weeks before putting it in 7 gals. As soon as it hits the bottom of that pot and starts to spin out again it will try to start autoflowering again.
This might explain what happened in your situation, might not. My main point above was that if you take the proper precautions you shouldn't have it autoflowering on you like that. Sure there are some plants that are more or less sensitive to this issue and you may have been unlucky to get one that is super sensitive.
I'm sorry I came off as an ass, its because I am an ass.
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Hi ,
You are probably reffering to preflowers at the base of every knot where the fanleave grows from the stem.
The AK-47, the Chronic and also the White Russian have very noticable preflowers and more than 1 grower have mistaken these for actual budgrowth. May be you have noticed that despite the flowers you see the plants did go on growing basically normal; growing new sidebranches while producing flowers at every node, while there is no actual budformation.
There are usually 2 preflowers at the base of every leave, or 4 at every knot as those leaves are usually opposite of each other at the main stem. Because these preflowers are so big and abundant it seems for many people like the plant is in flower while under 18 or 24 hours of light.
But please look closely; it is probably not a cluster of flowers, but a couple of single flowers with very noticeable big white hairs sticking out. Trie to clone; it should be no problem. The clones will also grow like a regular, and not like an autoflowering plant. They will also show their sex very noticeably, but this is not real flowering. The clones of an autoflower plant will not really grow well (lengthwise) but maintain to grow flowers, in stead of length and sidebranches.
If you do really see flowering under 18-24 hour of light something weird is going on, they should not flower. We know of situations where the plant 'feels' its life is being threatened, and that early flowering indeed can be the result of this. If you avoid situations which are very stressful to plants; pots are too small, not giving enough water, etc. then Serious'plants will absolutely not flower.
But I assume that these conditions in which plants are stressed out to the max. are not the growing conditions in which you grow your plants. In that case your plants should not flower, and are probably not flowering. Check it out, and you'll see.
Other phenomena like hermaphrodites and total sexchange of plants can also be the result of high levels of stress. We have selected our parent plants on the absence of all of these phenomena, and we have never seen them at all in our plants.
Good luck with them.
Simon
My buddy grew chronic and found a couple keepers and zero problems with hermi but keep your humidity in check cuz they are so damn chunky. Good luck and keep us posted
Unfortunately it seems like you guys didn't get lucky given the small starting populations, you want to be guaranteed a keeper or three you should buy two packs min or make f2s and look within those.
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