How long till buds start to form and swell?

Just set it back to 18/6 since it has been on 24/0 all the time. Preflower started about 1.5 month ago, but it looks like the switch to 18/6 already helps a bit. Will keep it like this for 1 week before reduced light time more

Are you flowering 12/12? Its just beginning. give it 5-6 more weeks.

You are right. I didnt do any kind of training. Since its my first ever grow, I wanted to start with a non trained plant to see how it works out. Already got a new batch of seeds waiting. Will do these with training and check the difference in results. Only got 1 photo to teach myself how to do training and to see what kind of training gets what kind of outcome. There's so much to find online, so decided to try everything out before using it for real on my new growth im about 1-2 months

Not alot of training done there. Yes she still has lots of time. White hairs will start curling up and will grow new hairs/nodes.