I want to be as straightforward as I can about what I'm seeing, this year.
This is my 53rd season gardening and 27th growing our favorite herb.
I've never seen a season like this one.
My plants are six weeks behind last year.
Those that had to reveg after producing a Spring seed crop were very slow to revert.
Many, many people are reporting early flowering, all over the place. I've installed a CFL in each greenhouse to prevent such an event.
I'm replacing two Trainwrecks that have barely begun to reveg, tomorrow. I'll dig them up and reveg them under an indoor 18/6 for a month, and then flower them.
I digress.
Why are these things happening? I don't know.
How to fix it, ASAP? add a small CFL to your grow area and allow it to shine on your plants until midnight until August 1st.
I "believe" we may not be hearing about some climate change and pollution problems that may be effecting total radiation reaching the ground. We had an extremely cool Spring.
There is a huge volcano in Iceland dumping millions of tons of ash into the atmosphere.
Even the oil spill is releasing huge volumes of gas and fumes into the atmosphere. Heavy gases that lie near the ground, affecting our plants while we remain largely oblivious.
These are just guesses, but I'm 60 years old and have never seen such change, all at once.
Thoughts?