Vegging w/ amber hairs! Normal?

[SpitRhyma]

I keep my plants outdoor, I had about 10 plants growing, and 5 are female for sure and have began flowering but none of them has actual buds yet... just tiny thin green rolls w/ a a white hair growing out of'em in diff. parts of the plant.

I'm mainly concerned about 1 of'em (the biggest)

Now I was told if I leave it outside to get more than 12 hours of light a day (in California in the early early month o' May) it would reverse and start veging again. But I had also heard on a diff. day from the same person that when the hairs on a plant turn amber that means it's never gonna naturally grow bigger, and the only way to make it grow more is to force it to reveg.

I also heard on this forum that the plant will stop growing hairs when it revegs...

Well my plants HAVE grown bigger but not only have they grown more hairs, a lot of'em have turned amber (at least 1 of'em) and it's only getting more and more light every day

The buds are getting a lil bigger but my biggest "nug" is like the size of rice grain.

My plants are all very mature and tall considering they are indicas.

Is it possible that the plant has finished naturally budding and is starting to die?

 

[BurnOne]

The plant will revert back to veg when the light hours increase. Don't worry, it'll be fine with proper care.
Burn1

 

[mig]

def, no problemo...

 

[SpitRhyma]

Ok my question really is... what causes a plant to reach a state where you can only make it reveg by forcing it w/ 24/0 lighting?

Also what are symptoms of this?

Somebody told me when a plant has amber hairs on it that means it has lived it's life... but that's obviously not true because my plants all are growing taller and taller every day yet they have several hairs that are amber (not as many as they do white hairs).

Also they are growing bigger buds and more white/clear hairs over time...

I'm concerned because I have no lights but the california sky (which has been cloudy) and I want to be sure there is no way my plants will die w/o growing big enuf buds cuz all of'em are huge females!

 

[mig]

how long have they been in flower...you can artificially veg them for 18/6 then go to 12/12 to sex them then back to 18/6 to carry out the rest of veg. now i have taken clones with hairs on it that have obvious turned orange because the flower tissue has matured and have turned out fine. The rest of the plant can still be growing if the flower has matured. In your instance, it sounds like you started outside, and are planning to finish outside. if thats the case, i would'nt worry one bit...just let them be, and nature will do its thing. if you started them outside they will be fine. even if you started them indoors, then put them outdoors they will be fine. if you start to see that this is not the case then chop em. but i would def let mother nature do her thing.

ps, your friend doesnt sound like a very accurate source of information. i hope i dont offend you. in all honesty i could be wrong here andf your buyddy could be right, but i dont think so. i have grown out clones with amber hairs into full new plants, so that disproves him right there. also, there is only a small amount of time when the hours in your area are 12/12...only on the equator, so i wouldnt worry. check your day legnth times and youll see the nights are shorter and the days are longer. hopefully this helps. if your unsure, take clones then you got insurance, you could always put them outside...

 

[SpitRhyma]

Mig: You are suggesting 18/6 light/dark but I only can give the plants what the California sky gives me...I can't cuz I don't have big enough lights...

I feel a great sense of relief hearing at least 1 person say "nature will do it's thing" cuz 1 time my flower grew very tiny buds (but then again it was a very tiny plant) and I took it to the club and the grower guy said it's lived it's life and the only way to make it reveg is to cut it and use 24/0 lights. I asked him how he could tell and he said from the way it looks cuz the hairs start out clear get blurry, then turn white, then turn orange and then amber and when they reach amber they're matured. So my next plant which was about 1.5 feet tall had more amber hairs than white hairs so I chopped it but I got no more than a big ass bowl (which was pretty good I might add).

Then I asked him about my current plants which had started to flower but gone back to reveg naturally... and he told me they would reveg and he was right about that (but they did have amber hairs) so clearly I misunderstood him.

But I still haven't gotten my answer... How can I tell if the plant has reached a point where it couldn't naturally reveg or flower more?

 

[mig]

hey man...im sorry for not responding in well over a month, been kind of a recluse lately...The point at which the plant cannot flower more is mostly arbitrary. The mature hairs mean that specific calyx is mature (if the hair turned naturally). I would also check the trichomes' color, this is a much more accurate way of checking maturity. When the trichomes are cloudy they are at full THC. When amber begins to set in, this is the beginning of the degredation of the THC molecule. To achieve peak maturity you roughly want to harvest when the trichs are like 80/20 cloudy/amberish. The more amber the trichs, the more dazing the stone. The cloudier the trichs, the more heady the stone. I personally like my trics cloudy with alil amber. I dont like the ultra dazed stone. not all the time anyway, if i want that, i just take an extra tube rip. Just remember, in nature, the plants primary objective is to produce seeds and pass on its genes. So its gonna grow till it dies, its up to you to stop the growth. The plant is not gonna say, Hey im done, pick me. You can let them flower too long. Dunno what the bud would be like, I assume ultra mature and in the end if outside would die naturally. Inside, I think they would also die. hope this helps.