My First Outdoor NW

Humanrob

Humanrob

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calicocalyx said:
let me look into my crystal ball..... actually looking like an el nino coming so wet winter/fall/spring.
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This came up a long time ago and I'm no expert on this, but I came across this chart... Maybe El Nino will work in our favor? They are specifying "late fall", and that might be beyond our window of vulnerability, so I'm not sure if the September/October impact would be different. And of course, its the weather, so who knows.

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atvman84

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September will have some rain I think. looks likes last year,again this year, the rain is spread out in sepember and october, like a week a clouds, then a week of sun then another few days of rain and so on untill late oct, when rains everyday lol
weatherwiz says that. although there long range predictions change alot.
 
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oragrow said:
Pic is a bash,
sprayed with serande this AM.
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hey man here is a Space-B plant in 25 gallon wish i would have gotten a little bigger didint know his variety got this bushy wih all the hot weather there was, and qurkle almost at there peak. and outdoor flower starting of space b-
hope yours are all doing good its been a fun adventure
 

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atvman84

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yea fence for sure can't go wrong , more privacy, and it does,help keep out (pests)
I wish they made fences 8 feet tall if you live in city.
 
Humanrob

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Damn, my girls are taking forever to start flowering. This is the most mature one I have, the Alien OG. At this rate, its going to be a very long fall... could be harvesting early November.

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calicocalyx

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I've got a couple that aren't even that far along and they're supposed to be done end of september. I think that stretch period can take a little longer outside on some strains. At least that's what I'm telling myself. :-P
 
Humanrob

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calicocalyx said:
I've got a couple that aren't even that far along and they're supposed to be done end of september. I think that stretch period can take a little longer outside on some strains. At least that's what I'm telling myself. :-P
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Has using a light to keep the days artificially long, and then shutting it off to induce flowering, worked for you?

At least I have some small staggered indoor stuff rolling along, so I have some fresh medicine getting cut and cured every few weeks to hold us over. I do have to remember that when I flip to 12/12, it can take a week sometimes before the flowers start to show up, so maybe they are a week or more into it already.

I think my plants may have had an early stretch, and then sort of went back into veg. I'm not sure. They showed a lot of signs of being girls, grew like crazy, and then sort of slowed way down. Now they are stretching again, but since they have no more room to grow in, I hope they figure that out and just flower...
 
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calicocalyx

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I haven't gone straight from artificial light to flowering outside, but yeah if you do that too early it would reveg. I'd imagine after mid-late july everything would keep flowering. Some strains mature at different rates too. Different time frames for different parts of the flower cycle.
 
Humanrob

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calicocalyx said:
I haven't gone straight from artificial light to flowering outside, but yeah if you do that too early it would reveg. I'd imagine after mid-late july everything would keep flowering. Some strains mature at different rates too. Different time frames for different parts of the flower cycle.
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I didn't go from artificial light to flowering outside, mine actually went out early, some late April, some early in May.

The artificial light reference was because I thought you hung a light over your outdoor plants outside to extend the day, so that when you cut the extra light around July 1st(?), the abrupt shortening (back to just the natural daylight) would induce flowering. I might have confused you with someone else.
 
calicocalyx

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I actually was worried with my early 7 week strains. I left the light on until the 18th and everything was fine when I shut it off. I did reduce the time by a half hour in may and that triggered some to start flowering, I caught it and reset the timer and they went back into veg. I try to gradually shut the light off until I'm within an hour or so of natural light so as not to stress them, I just started a little early for those couple strains. My ape cheese (biggest in the field) is stretching but no popcorns, they are supposed to finish with the bubblegums in the end of september. Bubblegum has nice popcorns and is where it should be.
 
Humanrob

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Thanks for clarifying, sometimes I read so much stuff on here, it starts to blur together. I haven't gotten a real grasp of what shocks plants and to what degree. It's possible, for instance, that the way I've trimmed and scrogged -- sometimes doing both on the same day -- shocked my plants. They may have been growing strongly and I set them back a week or two through inexperienced handling.

Next year.... lol
 
oragrow

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atvman84 said:
yea fence for sure can't go wrong , more privacy, and it does,help keep out (pests)
I wish they made fences 8 feet tall if you live in city.
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Yes, allowing for taller fences esp, for people that are taller than 6ft. or jumping up to see.
DK Dollar showed balls, it least, learned to clone.
 
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atvman84

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calicocalyx said:
I actually was worried with my early 7 week strains. I left the light on until the 18th and everything was fine when I shut it off. I did reduce the time by a half hour in may and that triggered some to start flowering, I caught it and reset the timer and they went back into veg. I try to gradually shut the light off until I'm within an hour or so of natural light so as not to stress them, I just started a little early for those couple strains. My ape cheese (biggest in the field) is stretching but no popcorns, they are supposed to finish with the bubblegums in the end of september. Bubblegum has nice popcorns and is where it should be.
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im going that sour boggle, that has bugglegum in it i think. its rated at 46 -50 days and its the slowest one to show alot of white hair flowers
 
Jalepandro

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Blackout shed is working like a charm.
Two plant are seven weeks into flowering.
I'm going to chop one at the start of week 9, and the other in week 11.
I've got three more plants that are five weeks into flowering.

The remaining plants don't get manual dark times.
So 12 more that are just finally starting to spit out pistils.
 
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