My wife switched off the lights on accident for a few hours on some seedlings yesterday. The oldest one is about five weeks. This morning, it looks to me like it’s starting to flower. Is this even possible or am I reading this wrong?
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It is flowering. It’s not uncommon for an auto to flower at 5 weeks.
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Sorry, it is a purple haze photo, same seeds from last year. I have yet to try an auto by the way so I know I didn’t get any seeds mixed up lol. I have been matching the light timer to our actual daylight hours updating once a week as the days get longer, I was going to move this one and two others outside to bigger pots today or tomorrow. I guess I’ll start another seed to replace that one.
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Do you think lights off for a few hours in the middle of a light cycle caused this to flip or could it be something else that I’m doing wrong?
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A few hours isn’t going to make a difference.
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I’m no expert but I wouldn’t think the girl would be putting out pistils today from being triggered into flower yesterday. If it’s flowering, I would think the trigger happened prior.
But in spite of that, being a photo just phasing into pre-flower, wouldn’t she just re-veg and continue on if you moved her on outside anyway? No? 
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I started a new seed to replace it. I did cut the top off, just to see what happens. I had several outdoor plants a lot larger than this last year that had to revege after I moved them into the garage all day for a homeowners insurance exterior inspection, all four plants flipped within days. It slowed them down a lot. I chopped the top off of one of those, it recovered the quickest. Pic is the plants from last year that I moved inside, before they flowered a few days later. That was one year ago today.
We will see what happens.
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@TXoutdoor Those were nice looking plants.
Is that a Monte SS sitting on the Coopers in the background ? 
The Shiny chrome got me to zoom in . 
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@Oldguy Thanks, 1986 Olds 442
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Anything below 14 hours of light could trigger flowering in photos…what is the shortest light period they have seen?
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If they’re indoor and flowering at 5 weeks, probably autos. Miggtve got mixed up. If theyre photos they will reveg. Its just looks too mature for one incident.
@Riskguy I bet that’s it. Looking back at the schedule, they started at about 12.5 hrs a day.
I was trying to avoid them flipping once moved outside, like the first round of plants last year did. I started them at 14 hrs until moved outside to about 12.5 hrs, the revege was a major speed bump. The yield was great, but it was really thatchy compared to the plants started a month later. They all ended up about the same size 6 to 8 feet. Pic is purple haze, one of the revege plants last year. Thanks for the help!
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After rereading, thats pretty weird since you know its a photo. I put one out in April last year and it began to flower asap.
@SausageMahoney If it was a mixup with the seeds, it happened at ILGM. It’s the only place I have gotten seeds from until this week, and I have never bought autos. ILGM has been great, I highly doubt they mixed anything up, but anything is possible. I was thinking the same thing last year, but I simply underestimated how sensitive photos are to light cycle and light cycle changes. I’m always learning more thanks to everyone here!
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I hear ya brother. Hopefully it’ll reveg. What part of Tx you in? Im here in SETX.
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@SausageMahoney Right on! I’m about an hr East of DFW
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About the same here but from HTown. I think @Retiredoldguy is close by?
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well Howdy @TXoutdoor I am in Rowlett…
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