So, here's my story...

Beezy813

Beezy813

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I've always had an interest in growing my own flowers. I'm not too sure where to even get started (legitimately). I took a couple seeds I found along the way and popped them into a bottle cap filled with dirt and made them sprout. Once they got to the point where they started leaning over, I went out and bought a small plant pot and replanted them. The leaves withered, but didn't die. I assume that was from the shock of being moved because they went back to being perky after about 3-4 days. Now while they were in the cap and the small pot, I just had it in the window where my kitchen sink is and it got sun light during the day, as much as the day offered and other than the kitchen light coming on and off occasionally, hats pretty much it. There was wind coming in, blowing the little plants and I noticed the stem was getting a little stronger. I had 3 plants total, I noticed two of them had little hairs starting to grow and 1 had little pollen sacks on it.

(After researching I found that it was a male plant and if kept too close to the others it would pollinate them and the buds that were growing would then develop seeds and I don't want that. please correct me if I'm wrong).

The plants eventually got too tall for my kitchen window, like 6 inches or so, and almost too big for the small pot they were in, so I got another pot and replanted them all (not knowing at the time about the plant differences (male/female) I put them in my back yard and just let them be. My dogs were rough housing back there and one of them knocked the pot over and stepped on the male plant it was in half so I tried to salvage it but after finding out about the plant differences I cut my losses and trashed it. The other two were strong as ever from the breeze and sun light but then I noticed that they stopped growing tall and just started flowering. So now the plants are about a foot tall with small buds on them. They look nice and smell good but I know they aren't growing like they should. I'll post a couple pics of how they look. I guess my question is:

1. Should I just leave them be for now? Or is there a way I can get it to grow taller in the stage it's in now?

I don't have any fancy lighting or anything, only sunlight in the back yard. Can I get good results this way?

I DO plan on doing things the right way, I kind of just winged this as they grew..

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Joe Blows Trees

Joe Blows Trees

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Keep doing what you're doing and it should be ok. A longer vegetative stage leads to bigger plants in the flowering stage so nothing you can do about the size/height now. Nice plant for just sunlight.
 
Nyan Rapier

Nyan Rapier

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There's really no way you can get them to stretch at that stage and you really shouldn't want to. It sounds like they started flowering as soon as they were big enough which is pretty cool. I'm not too keen on autoflowers and I can't tell if they are or not, but I'm looking at those three bladed leaves.
 
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Beezy813

Beezy813

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Thanks for your input fellas, given the look of them in their current state, how long do you think I should give them before harvest? They've been outside for about a month and a half
 
srh88

srh88

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Beezy813 said:
FL weather, 80+ degrees
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Ha-ha when I lived in fl I do the same thing.. It's fun to be able to grow outside in the winter.. Tiny plants but something to mess around with is always cool.. Run autos.. You'll get a little more if you can only grow outside (in the winter)
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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ya they essentialy flowered from seed. berore i moved indoors, in tx we can grow year round, to have cycles, our longest day of the year is just 14hrs 6minutes, many will flower in the summer..


the 3 bladed leaves are from lack of light intensity. probably from your window. but it can easily happen outdoors.


put up pics in a few weeks, better tell you harvest time.

cut down on feeding some, or use a bloom nite with less n


good lucck
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Beezy813 said:
I've always had an interest in growing my own flowers. I'm not too sure where to even get started (legitimately). I took a couple seeds I found along the way and popped them into a bottle cap filled with dirt and made them sprout. Once they got to the point where they started leaning over, I went out and bought a small plant pot and replanted them. The leaves withered, but didn't die. I assume that was from the shock of being moved because they went back to being perky after about 3-4 days. Now while they were in the cap and the small pot, I just had it in the window where my kitchen sink is and it got sun light during the day, as much as the day offered and other than the kitchen light coming on and off occasionally, hats pretty much it. There was wind coming in, blowing the little plants and I noticed the stem was getting a little stronger. I had 3 plants total, I noticed two of them had little hairs starting to grow and 1 had little pollen sacks on it.

(After researching I found that it was a male plant and if kept too close to the others it would pollinate them and the buds that were growing would then develop seeds and I don't want that. please correct me if I'm wrong).

The plants eventually got too tall for my kitchen window, like 6 inches or so, and almost too big for the small pot they were in, so I got another pot and replanted them all (not knowing at the time about the plant differences (male/female) I put them in my back yard and just let them be. My dogs were rough housing back there and one of them knocked the pot over and stepped on the male plant it was in half so I tried to salvage it but after finding out about the plant differences I cut my losses and trashed it. The other two were strong as ever from the breeze and sun light but then I noticed that they stopped growing tall and just started flowering. So now the plants are about a foot tall with small buds on them. They look nice and smell good but I know they aren't growing like they should. I'll post a couple pics of how they look. I guess my question is:

1. Should I just leave them be for now? Or is there a way I can get it to grow taller in the stage it's in now?

I don't have any fancy lighting or anything, only sunlight in the back yard. Can I get good results this way?

I DO plan on doing things the right way, I kind of just winged this as they grew..

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You have what it takes to grow plants. Not just pot. Your experiments look better than some folks' planned grows.
 
Beezy813

Beezy813

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Oh, the place I keep them is on the side of my house. There is a slight overhang that would block some sun from time to time. Should I move them to like the middle of the yard where they would be in constant sunlight? Or should they be ok where they are? My only fear is my dogs messing with them. Where they are now, the dogs don't notice them lol
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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Beezy813 said:
Oh, the place I keep them is on the side of my house. There is a slight overhang that would block some sun from time to time. Should I move them to like the middle of the yard where they would be in constant sunlight? Or should they be ok where they are? My only fear is my dogs messing with them. Where they are now, the dogs don't notice them lol
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imo ya, a couple of us noted the lack of fingers-low light. yiull get better bud density, yield and overall better quality bud.

but only you can make that call. my dogs dont usually mess with the weed plants, my cats do..
 
qwizoking

qwizoking

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Lol, good cause it would be borderline dead and flowers will be poop, small, no real frost low yield..
but that leaf should have more like 9.
 
GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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After you've been in this game a few years with a couple of grow's under your belt (assuming you pay attention) you get better at it.

But you are doing great - not lbs of bud to process, but you are growing what looks to be some very nice dank bud.
Welcome to RIU - Congrats & + Rep.
 
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