Transplants are flowering... HELP (please)!

Hi, folks.

I have a couple autoflower transplants (Girl Scout Cookie and Pineapple Express) that are already flowering! I sowed seeds on April 7th, started them inside under lights with my other flowers and vegetables (16 hours ON + 8 hours OFF). I'm in a far Northern ag zone and so I was only recently able to move all of my plants out to my unheated greenhouse on a full-time basis. Given the choice, I probably wouldn't plant anything out (outdoor grower here) until after the 1st of June.

Needless to say, my light cycles changed when I moved the plants outdoors. Should I try a "light break" the next couple nites? Head out to the greenhouse with a fluorescent fixture before bed and hit my plants with a dose for a minute? Alternatively, will my autoflower plants simply revert back to vegetative in their own time?

I've never really experienced this before. I guess I've never experimented with what I definitely knew to be autoflower seeds, however.

Autos will not revert back to veg, regardless of the light schedule.
That's why they're called autos.......they have a pre-determined life.

Autoflowers flower when they want. Light schedule means nothing to them.

Do you know the difference between autos and photos?

Here are a couple pics.. sorry if the quality is not ideal but I think you get the drift. And thanks for looking!

MickFoster said:

Autos will not revert back to veg, regardless of the light schedule.
That's why they're called autos.......they have a pre-determined life.

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Okay.. but does it pay to plant these out then?? Will they just continue to flower as they continue to put on volume?

Creature1969 said:

Autoflowers flower when they want. Light schedule means nothing to them.

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Very well. Real autoflowers are new to me.. should I still plant these out and expect them to size up as they continue to flower then?

I guess I learned my lesson.. shoulda planted my AF's a helluva lot closer to when I was gonna actually plant them outside.

Dank Bongula said:

Do you know the difference between autos and photos?

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Gosh, I guess I don't.. or I thought I did but I thought wrong. Oh well.. lesson learned. Couple other varieties out there that aren't AF that'll keep me busy thru the season.

Autos get the biggest if they start off in a bigger pot or planted right in the ground. Last year I started 4 fem autos intending to plant them outside as soon as they sprouted. Rainy weather set in so they had to wait in 3" pots for a couple weeks and only got about a foot tall once all flowered out and 2 ended up male. The other 2 grew as photoperiod plants and one of those turned out to be male. The one female grew to 5' tall and bushy so I got almost a pound of bud off her but had to build a greenhouse around her with a heater. Heavy blanket over her at night too when it was snowing and -15C a few nights. I'm way up north in Alberta.

Hoping to get auto seeds in the ground by June 15th at the latest this year but they are going directly into the ground with no pre-sprouting.





One of the lower branches. Could have gone another 2 weeks to really finish up.

OldMedUser said:

Autos get the biggest if they start off in a bigger pot or planted right in the ground. Last year I started 4 fem autos intending to plant them outside as soon as they sprouted. Rainy weather set in so they had to wait in 3" pots for a couple weeks and only got about a foot tall once all flowered out and 2 ended up male. The other 2 grew as photoperiod plants and one of those turned out to be male. The one female grew to 5' tall and bushy so I got almost a pound of bud off her but had to build a greenhouse around her with a heater. Heavy blanket over her at night too when it was snowing and -15C a few nights. I'm way up north in Alberta.

Hoping to get auto seeds in the ground by June 15th at the latest this year but they are going directly into the ground with no pre-sprouting.

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One of the lower branches. Could have gone another 2 weeks to really finish up.

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Good for you. The elements be damned, you pulled her through the freeze! Never give up! good job.

Dank Bongula said:

Do you know the difference between autos and photos?

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Obviously not.

OldMedUser said:

Autos get the biggest if they start off in a bigger pot or planted right in the ground. Last year I started 4 fem autos intending to plant them outside as soon as they sprouted. Rainy weather set in so they had to wait in 3" pots for a couple weeks and only got about a foot tall once all flowered out and 2 ended up male. The other 2 grew as photoperiod plants and one of those turned out to be male. The one female grew to 5' tall and bushy so I got almost a pound of bud off her but had to build a greenhouse around her with a heater. Heavy blanket over her at night too when it was snowing and -15C a few nights. I'm way up north in Alberta.

Hoping to get auto seeds in the ground by June 15th at the latest this year but they are going directly into the ground with no pre-sprouting.

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One of the lower branches. Could have gone another 2 weeks to really finish up.

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ever notice they get a special taste when you let them go through the cold? kinda like ice wine. sugars seem to do something when they get all cold like that. at least thats what ive found.
we used to keep large dark rocks around the plants hoping theyd store some.heat through the day from the sun and release it through the night. large black barrels of water works too

OldMedUser said:

Autos get the biggest if they start off in a bigger pot or planted right in the ground. Last year I started 4 fem autos intending to plant them outside as soon as they sprouted. Rainy weather set in so they had to wait in 3" pots for a couple weeks and only got about a foot tall once all flowered out and 2 ended up male. The other 2 grew as photoperiod plants and one of those turned out to be male. The one female grew to 5' tall and bushy so I got almost a pound of bud off her but had to build a greenhouse around her with a heater. Heavy blanket over her at night too when it was snowing and -15C a few nights. I'm way up north in Alberta.

Hoping to get auto seeds in the ground by June 15th at the latest this year but they are going directly into the ground with no pre-sprouting.

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One of the lower branches. Could have gone another 2 weeks to really finish up.

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how do your auto-fem plants end up being 2 photo and 2 male? lol i think you might want to find a new seed supplier, just saying

edblings said:

how do your auto-fem plants end up being 2 photo and 2 male? lol i think you might want to find a new seed supplier, just saying

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Basically free seeds so no guarantees implied or expected. The one keeper is keeping on in my grow room from the one broken branch I rooted. Once flowered indoors I'll be sending a sample to a lab to see just how much THC and CBD she actually has. Supposed to be almost no THC and up to 20% CBD so if close to that she's a keeper! I'll introduce her to some nice males I know.

twentyeight.threefive said:

Obviously not.

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Can't argue with that

OldMedUser said:

Autos get the biggest if they start off in a bigger pot or planted right in the ground. Last year I started 4 fem autos intending to plant them outside as soon as they sprouted. Rainy weather set in so they had to wait in 3" pots for a couple weeks and only got about a foot tall once all flowered out and 2 ended up male. The other 2 grew as photoperiod plants and one of those turned out to be male. The one female grew to 5' tall and bushy so I got almost a pound of bud off her but had to build a greenhouse around her with a heater. Heavy blanket over her at night too when it was snowing and -15C a few nights. I'm way up north in Alberta.

Hoping to get auto seeds in the ground by June 15th at the latest this year but they are going directly into the ground with no pre-sprouting.

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One of the lower branches. Could have gone another 2 weeks to really finish up.

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Did they survive the cold ? Thats crazy

They will like it more outside I’m pretty sure!! How far in flower you think?