Why are my autos not budding yet?

[Cherishnugs]

So my 2 smaller pink kush autos are flowering. Wondering if its normal to have my plants stop growing for a minute and not budding yet.
This crop of autos is a different experience than my outdoor first.
Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[GrimReffer]

So my 2 smaller pink kush autos are flowering. Wondering if its normal to have my plants stop growing for a minute and not budding yet.
This crop of autos is a different experience than my outdoor first.
Any tips would be appreciated.

The center one looks hungry. I don’t run autos so I’m not much help.

 

[Cherishnugs]

The center one looks hungry. I don’t run autos so I’m not much help.

Shes been like that since she popped out. She expresses a different phenotype then her sisters.

 

[labomba]

Ive got a similar problem and im now paranoid thinking my plants are hermafrodite or something. They are two autos (Original Cheese and W. Widow) that just turned 2 months couple days ago and still no signs of flowering at all.
This is from a post of mine 20th december

Right now they are at 750 ppm. My temperatures never go higher than 23c and PH was never higher than 5.8; How can i tell if something is wrong with them. I can see they are females and surely autos., but i cant pinpoint why i got no pistils after 62 days.
Any ideas here? Should i try flipping them12/12?

Here are some pictures, they are slightly droopy as was just before their daily water, but they perk up an hour after watering and lights. Still growing considerably and not many negative signs.

 

[GreenGalaxyFarm]

doesnt sound like you have a autoflower here brother

 

[dean1963]

i doubt their autos if they look like that at 8 weeks.
go ahead and flip to 12/12 is my opinion

 

[Mikedin]

i doubt their autos if they look like that at 8 weeks.
go ahead and flip to 12/12 is my opinion

Pretty sure this is an old post but here’s an autoflower that didn’t flower currently… in flower after 4 months of veg lol

 

[labomba]

An upate from my erlier post, they are growing by the day one one of them started showing small pistils about 10 days ago, so does that means it is going to flower anyway (albeit slowly)? She is now 12 weeks old and supposed to be an auto, they always seemed happy and healthy never showing any bad signs.
Im reluctant towards flipping them becase there is no way back and i have other small plants in the same tent

One other thing, Ive noticed tiny red spots (can see on first picture) on the plant, they are hard crystal i sometimes find on the stems. Any idea what it might be?

 

[Goodshit97]

An upate from my erlier post, they are growing by the day one one of them started showing small pistils about 10 days ago, so does that means it is going to flower anyway (albeit slowly)? She is now 12 weeks old and supposed to be an auto, they always seemed happy and healthy never showing any bad signs.
Im reluctant towards flipping them becase there is no way back and i have other small plants in the same tent

One other thing, Ive noticed tiny red spots (can see on first picture) on the plant, they are hard crystal i sometimes find on the stems. Any idea what it might be?

Youll have to flip to 12/12 thise are not autos if you're at 12 weeks of veg.

 

[labomba]

Youll have to flip to 12/12 thise are not autos if you're at 12 weeks of veg.

Even tho one of them started to show pistils?

 

[Fromunda506]

Even tho one of them started to show pistils?

Those are just her showing sex. No flowers forming = need to flip to 12-12 to flower. Happens sometimes with autos…more often with low quality/poorly tested genetics.

 

[Goodshit97]

Even tho one of them started to show pistils?

So those are just preflowers telling you its female and ready for flower. If it were an auto, it would be almost done or done already.

 

[labomba]

Great stuff, ive been reading more that people are having the same issue more frequently and with so many new seed brands in the market I think they might have very low ruderalis genetics in them

 

[Edinburg]

They take time, there on theres not yours, they look healthy except for that yellowish plant in middle check the ph, don't stress them, and with autoflowers less nutes is better than more, around 30 days or so they should begin to flower, by day 50 you will usually have enough flower to work with but again there on there time, my 2 autos are 80 days old and chem stomper is only half done.

 

[labomba]

I've been giving them enough time, i had set on my mind 3 months was my deadline to switch them to 12/12. Ive dug around the maximum time autos would take in worse case scenarios and ive found people saying 12 weeks, it was the max, since mine are entering 13th week ive convinced myself that they are not autos or very low ruderalis genetically. There is ONE factor that bugs my mind which is temperature, ive often read that growers would experience longers veg stages in colder climates and my plant has always been in a room ranging from 15-21c. They have rarely exeprienced temps above 21c, but i would have not expected them to get this big if temp was an issue

With regard to the yellowing its a close up from the bottom plant on the third picture. I grow in coco/perlite and LED lights. PH always around 5.7-5.9 after mix but I ve been adjusting closer to 6 just in the last few weeks because Phosphorus is more needed when close to flower and its more available at 6.1-6.2 ph. So if im not mistaken in any of that i think PH should be ok? I do find one of them with brown spots around and i think it can be cal mag missing a bit, tho i use RO with around 200-250pppm cal mag plus running GH for soft water.

Tho all is well im open for tips for any improvements if im wrong in any of the steps

 

[BigBlonde]

Last summer, we tried to grow Black Jack that was sold as autos, but they weren't flowering. So we flipped to 12/12 and they flowered.