Flowering problem with a certain variety

Greenthumbskunk

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Got some landrace sativa's that are not going into flowering yet. Got a couple of mother plants and a bunch of clones. The two mother's are Drakensburg and the other is a Mulane. The mother plants are planted in the ground and are both 13-15 foot tall right now and are on a growth spurt. The mulane is slightly bigger being about a foot taller and 2 foot wider. It is about 10 ft wide. Its base stalk is as big as a coke can and its branches are thick as a thumb. The Drake is almost as big in itself. I planted these two together in a location with some others. i thought I had plenty of room for em as I planted them several feet apart but clearly they needed much much much more lol.

I have many more varieties and they are all in flower save for these landrace varieties. The clones I put out around 4 weeks ago are already 6ft tall from a 5" plant.
I have not been giving any of the clones yet any nutes the big plants I lightly fed them when their leaves started yellowing twice this year. Yes I only fed them twice with very mild nutes. I even topped them all to try and stop the growth about a month back and it worked for a couple of weeks. lol
I also have others that are too big as well like c99's, Holy Grail 69, critical mass, Iranian auto flower, wonder woman, violator kush and among others.
My clones off the others are about where I need them around 3-4 foot tall and flowering at the moment but the landrace stuff is just not showing nothing at all.
I'm almost to the point of going to chop them down because I'm afraid they are going to draw attention because of how huge they are. If they do go into flower it is going to be bitten by frost which usually arrives in late Oct but sometimes earlier and sometimes later.

What do you guys think? Chop em? Right now I have a wall of sativa that is 15 ft tall and 15 foot wide. Its huge and I'm freaking. I live out in the country but their is an opening in the woods where the farmers will see them when shelling the corn in the field right next to the woods. That will happen in about a month.
 

OddBall1st

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Late Oct. is two months away, I find that late bloomers tend to go crazy when they start and seems like that`s all they do. I had some late bloomer do nothing but top out with big sunflower type tops and nothing else. (no trics on leaves) Don`t chop anything yet and see what happens.
 

Greenthumbskunk

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My main thing is trying to hide these giants. Their kinda down in the hill and when the combines start to roll they will be looking down upon them.
 

Dr. Skunk Bud

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I don't know about everyone else but I want to see pictures of these trees and it would be helpful if you could give us precise GPS coordinates so we can inspect them closer :bigjoint:
 

Garden Boss

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I would just hope for the best. If they find them, then get a new spot next year. Most of the time combine drivers are focused on their work anyways. Good luck man.
 

markexpress

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Holy shit those are some gigantic sativas. Well done, man. I don't like sativas for guerilla because they take way too long and the height is always a visibility issue. Indica can be cut down early-mid September if there's an emergency. Sativas will mostly be shit if you cut them even in late September. How about trying to camouflage them? Cut down a tree and bring it in front. Too bad there are no 15-foot artificial trees. Or maybe even putting a fence up around it. Would be a waste to cut down such beauty prematurely. Looks like 2-4 pounds of dried stuff by those measurements.

By the way, huge sativas may be able to handle mild frost. My Utopia Haze from a year back survived a low of 3 degrees Celsius with absolutely no problems or losses, maybe it would have even been able to handle 1-2 degrees.
 

hoonry

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yeah man love to see some pickys of those trees! did you think that landrace sativas had a chance in yer climate?! I don't blame you for trying though, sometimes plants can be fun to grow even if they don't turn out anything at all. you don't have to cut them all the way down, you could just take them down to a stealthy 6' or so - who knows they might pump out enough resin to make some hash with even if the flowers are skimpy
 
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