New Grower Is a pistol considered a flower?

[Philip]

I know when my plant shows a pistol, I know it is a female. But is it considered to be entering it's flowering stage? This is my first indoor grow and I want to get it right.

 

[namvet25]

Yes it's starting the flower stage.

 

[guerilla]

Sorta..not really. A pistol is part of the flower...congrats it's a girl. But the flowering stage proper starts when she's done her vertical stretch. If she stops growing taller she gonna start getting fatter

 

[Chester]

The pistil is the female sex organ of the flower ... it is sticking out trying to hook up w/ a grain of pollen to produce a seed ... on a healthy plant the pistils pile up to become buds ... as the plant ages the pistils begin to turn brown as they lose their viability and ability to produce a seed when pollinated ... A plant is ready to harvest when almost all pistils are brown and shriveled ... that is a sign that the plant has run it's course and the potency will start to suffer if harvest is delayed too long after this point.

 

[Philip]

Thanks everybody, the reason I asked is that I want to target specific nutes to the plant cycles.

 

[Dark Matter]

Keep giving her growth nutrients till the vertical growth has,stopped, even if pistils are showing, then when she's stopped growing up introduce flowering nutes