The flowering comes determined by fotoperiodo from light (received hours of light) during the night the cannabis makes a called hormone florigen that when arriving the day is destroyed, but the nights are sufficiently long the hormone finishes their cycle and if this repeats during some days the plant will begin to undergo a process of initiation to the flowering, the interior plants bloom all with fotoperiodo of 12/12, in outside these hours vary for each type of race, it has you indicate (as we said before but fast in which the sátivas) that can initiate the flowering just by 10 hours at night and sátivas that need the 12 hours the dark. All the plants of cannabis always floran with 12 hours of socuridad! We have divided the process of flowering in 4 parts:
1. - A time reached fotoperiodo indicated after each species of cannabis the males is extended to be left over the females thus when opening estambres polen will fall in the cogollos of the females, these also are extended to form a frame where to locate the cogollos, the internaked distance at the outset is very great, but soon it will fill of flowers and this way will be able to support the weight of the resinous cogollos that each plant will have.
The leaves let be born of two in two to be born one in each knot and faced and the ends they begin to leave oppositely to as it began when it was born in its day, leave the first leaves 5, depués of 3 until ending only one end. The flowering has begun!2. - At a second moment the cogollos, great amounts of chalices crowned by tens of white pelillos begin to form, the internaked distance still is very great and the cogollos are very small, but the plant or begins to form the first tricommas that are located mainly in the contours of the small leaves but and in the chalices, the plant or begins to smell and begins to produce THC or Delta 9, also will begin to produce THCa and delta 8 that soon will become THC or CBD. We must handle the plants by far well-taken care of because but the glands that contain the THC break and this one oxidizes. Intense rain also can break the tricommas and separate to produce mould. Apartir of this moment we do not have to never pulverize the plants since the water is introduced in the cogollos and favors the mould appearance. If we underwent this mishap we will have to eliminate with a knife the part that has the mould and 2 centimeters around thus to avoid that it returns to appear.
- tricommas: they are small glands in form of chupachups that contain the THC and all the other cannabinoides of the cannabis that in broad strokes is what places when smoking, to eat, etc….
3. - Now the plant lets grow totally and it is dedicated exclusively to the production of flowers that are fattening the cogollos. The great leaves become yellow and they are marchitan until they fall, most of the flowers already are fertile and some pelillos become maroones and they are marchitan. The resin production now is very great and the plant begins to smell much, if a tricomma is broken the scent is increased very many and very hard gotten to be annoying for being. In natural conditions the plant now would be polinizada and let make resin to center its forces in the production of seeds, but the culture of narcotic cannabis for recreational use cultivates plants “sinsemilla”, this means that when separating the males we prevented that the manufacture of tricommas and resins stops until the plant dies and thus we obtain a harvest very superior as far as resins and pelotazo when smoking that any other plant that has been polinizada.
4. - Arrived east moment it is the point in which the cannabis lets produce flowers and begins to mature the tricommas. Estigmas becomes brown and they are marchitan, the plant acquires an autumnal color and loses vitality by the long effort of the flowering. The resin is transparent at first becomes from color amber is transparent as is maturing and is necessary to think about the harvesting.
A form guessed right enough to harvest when the plant has all its potential is when 60% to 80% of estigmas are of brown color, although this technique is not infallible.
The best form to see the exact point of maturation of the tricommas (when but THC it has) is fijandonos with a magnifying glass in the heads of the tricommas, if they are I am transparent the resin has not matured, if they are of color amber is transparent is the suitable moment for gathering, now the plant has all its pontencial, to apartir of here the THC is oxidized and becoming CBD and other cannabinoides. If the resin is white translucent the THC already to begun to oxidize and the time of harvest is going.
