My Outdoor Auto's might grow into the Midwest winter!!

Hi everybody,

So this is my first grow in a few years so I wanted to dust off the old skills with a couple simple Auto's grown outdoors. I live in michigan, and the first frost could probably get here at any time. I used 2 Auto Candycane's and 2 Auto Pineapple crack strains. The CC's were germinated mid July, and the Pineapple followed 1 week later. Following the strain descriptions online, I figured these would both shoot me to the end of September maybe beginning of October... cutting it close, I know. All plants underwent LST and one of each strain was FIM'ed. Well the CC's went into flower around the 2/3rd week of August and are currently both 18inchs tall with thick buds. The Pineapple, however, just started showing its sex today, and both of those plants are probably 3+ ft tall. The pineapple exploded when FIM'ed and I can't help but think these 2 Sativa dominant pineapple crack plants wouldn't even be done flowering until the end of Novemeber, which means they will have to endure the cold death of michigan fall. I am also curious if it sounds like these are even autoflowering plants? I have heard about some seeds not showing the autoflowering trait, and I can't help but think that is my dilemma with the pineapple plants. Should I just put them out of their misery now, or just let them grow for the fun of it? I will try to take pictures and upload tonight.

Never write a plant off till it's dead. Soft frosts will slow them down, but, especially with the ruderalis genetics, probably not kill them. You might get lucky. At worst you have to chop them early. Better to do so when you might get some trichomes out of it. I have had bud from a sativa dom plant chopped (well, killed by a light) at week 5 or 6. High was weird, came on fast, hit hard, and faded fast. Better than nothing though.

Yeah it’s hard to say I had some super lemon haze that would just not flower until like end of September. Autos should go though regardless IME. Good luck.

Thank you for the advice. I agree, it seems unnecessary to blindly kill my babies thus far when we don't know how far they will get. I will post some pictures of their progress along the way!

I used to think that you had to take them before a frost hit. Last yr I harvest all the way up into November. Marijuana is one hardy plant! (Northern wi here)

I've let mine go through a few frost, as low as 28F , I've read they can handle even lower. But I like 28 for a safe zone per-se.

Yeah I have a vid on my old Sony hand held cam from 2012 and I’m literally blowing snow off of the top buds lol. Was fine to smoke.

One of my best plants lived through SUPER HARD FREEZE it was an Alaskan thunder fuck, so it was made in a cold climate, but water buckets were frozen top to bottom for a week every night before harvest, the stem cracked from freeze, but the bud was all fantastic and thrived on the punishment. Any other plant I've had that it got near that cold died.

But dont give up till its gone.

Right... if the plant dies from freezing then just harvest and hang. It wont hurt the buds or smoke.