Another rant on early flower outside

Like Lancaster Palmdale?

7 miles from palmdale

Yeah. I'm a few miles from there too good luck to this heat wave this week bro

DrOgkush said:

Yeah. I'm a few miles from there too good luck to this heat wave this week bro

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I have been growing here for a while,black plastic pots will fry the roots. When the heat waves come in July and august smart pots less than 30 gallons sometimes need watering twice a day. In a month when your plants are established it's hard to over water,with the right amount of water they thrive in the heat waves. In the beginning I was worried about over watering and my plants just seemed to survive the heat wave. Keep them wet,Bug free and you should end up with some nice plants.Good luck

I have to water 2 times a day regardless. 3 times for my veg garden where my corn and vines are.
I'm not worried about the garden. More less for you friend lol.

This is the time where I litterly keep my feet in the bottom of a kiddie pool while outside haha

Chief_Broom said:

Typically speaking in the US any mature plant (meaning it’s been growing from seed for about 6weeks or more) will start flowering if you put it outside before the middle of May. Plenty of people put plants outside earlier than mid-May but they will also shine a light on those plants for a few hours starting at evening twilight. This holds the plants in veg. Then around the beginning of June you can ditch the extra light because the days will be sufficiently long enough to do it for you.

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Such a great post if you or someone else is around and sees this question...how much light does it take at midnight to be sure they are awake? Curious. Thx in advance.

ComfortCreator said:

Such a great post if you or someone else is around and sees this question...how much light does it take at midnight to be sure they are awake? Curious. Thx in advance.

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Folks say one hour is enough. But I do an hour and a half just to be on the safe side.

I acually second that question as well.

I'm assuming t5s would do the trick if needed. But iv NEVER done external supplementale lighting

DrOgkush said:

I acually second that question as well.

I'm assuming t5s would do the trick if needed. But iv NEVER done external supplementale lighting

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I've seen the led's strung on a wire used a lot for outdoors. My setup is small and under glass, so I just use a couple of the twisty CFL's.

Like so. . .

My re veg so far is actually looking really nice

Here is an update on the experimental attempt to reveg some Blue Dream clones.

Recap: I took cuttings from a Blue Dream 2 weeks after the shift to flowering. The Blue Dream was my winter grow, so the cuttings went in the clone dome around December. The clones grew slowly and I put them outside mid-March (12/12 light). Within weeks, the plant produced sickly curled leaves and strangely formed buds. As an experiment, I decided to wait to see if the clones would return to the veg state by mid-summer.

They have not. The old bud growth is brown and clearly past any good harvest window. Under the scope, the trichomes are intact but nearly all amber. Note the brown on the old bud sites. In the wider angle pic (3), you can see the plant seems to be producing new vegetative growth, but it is producing another set of buds as well. You can see the old and newer parts of the plant in the pics.

It seems like these cuttings had a hard time returning to veg growth when taken from a flowering plant AND placed outside a bit too early. Any other explanations?

Old Bud growth:


Old bud growth and new buds. . . Pardon the insect damage:


Later growth appears more vegetative, but new bud growth exists as well. What the what?

All my early flower went straight back to veg and now are in flower with the top count multiplied by a dozen.

I am in the Toronto area and we still have over 14 hours of daylight.
In the first days of August my girls started to flower.
I should add that my flowering plants appear to have sativa dominant genes.
I also have two plants that have more indica traits have not yet flowered.
All my plants are from an accidental Gorilla Glue X Frisian Dew cross.