If I'm growing outdoors, then I HAVE to wait until autumn for my plants to flower?

Is this true? Because you can't control the light of an outdoor grow, will they only flower at the end of summer or can you influence them to flower sooner outdoors?

If you don't know the life cycle of a plant that would be outside, id recommended doing it inside where you can control everything. would be a lot easier for you, if your just starting out.

Indoors is unfortunately not possible for me. It has to be outdoors or not at all.

I'm looking at the strain AK-48 which is supposed to have a life cycle of 8-9 weeks.

Inkraven said:

Indoors is unfortunately not possible for me. It has to be outdoors or not at all.

I'm looking at the strain AK-48 which is supposed to have a life cycle of 8-9 weeks.

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maybe look into autos as they will flower after a certain amount of time vegging you dont got to wait for the light cycle to change

Great Lemon Skunk said:

maybe look into autos as they will flower after a certain amount of time vegging you dont got to wait for the light cycle to change

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Yeah that sounds like a pretty good idea!

growing an auto right now, its been 40 days and she's almost done.

Alright, NirvanaShop doesn't seem to have any popular sativa auto-flowering strains. I'm trying to avoid indica.

So you're saying it's impossible for me to grow weed outdoors without waiting until autumn for the plants to flower?

This seems like my only option - http://www.nirvanashop.com/en/feminized-marijuana-seeds/804-jock-horror-feminized-autoflower-5-seeds.html

Any ideas? I wanted to grow Ak-48 because of the sativa dominant pheno and short grow time.

Inkraven said:

This seems like my only option - http://www.nirvanashop.com/en/feminized-marijuana-seeds/804-jock-horror-feminized-autoflower-5-seeds.html

Any ideas? I wanted to grow Ak-48 because of the sativa dominant pheno and short grow time.

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Im not saying you can't grow outside bro. All I'm saying is your gonna have to do more research on cannabis life cycle outdoors. Specific research on a certain stain, to see what it's planted and when its harvested. Its a lot more thinking than posting a thread on RIU. No one person on here can give you an answer as to when you should plant your seed outdoors and what strain to grow. These are things you need to figure out. We were saying, if you want to make things easier on yourself, than just grow an auto outside as you won't have to worry about flowering. Hope this helps, good luck man!

BTW…welcom to RIU!

You could do a light depravation grow. Basically you use a light barrier to mimic shorter days and cause a flowering response. I'm sure you can find some examples via Google.

No, thank you so much for your help. I'm just trying to figure it out. You can probably recall the frustration of the initial learning curve for getting your first grow together.

Do you know where I could pursue that kind of research? Like, where would I find out this stuff if not here? Out of curiosity, what's the auto you're growing now?

socaljoe said:

You could do a light depravation grow. Basically you use a light barrier to mimic shorter days and cause a flowering response. I'm sure you can find some examples via Google.

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Thanks, I'll look into it.

Inkraven said:

No, thank you so much for your help. I'm just trying to figure it out. You can probably recall the frustration of the initial learning curve for getting your first grow together.

Do you know where I could pursue that kind of research? Like, where would I find out this stuff if not here? Out of curiosity, what's the auto you're growing now?

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I know what you mean bro I'm tryna help you but your question is way to vague, and it doesn't really make sense. If you really want to try and grow outside, I would buy any book by jorge cervantes, he's a master cannabis grower, and his books include everything about everything from how to setup a grow room to harvesting and curing. They even include sections about security! In one of his books you will find chapters about growing outdoors, and it will have all the info you need.

My suggestion before would be to find a strain, research that specific strain. If you research it enough, you will find out when its suppose to be planted outdoors, and when its suppose to be harvested. And then you will have your time line which your looking for.

As to my auto flower its a strain of northern lights. It takes about 65-80 days.

Okay thank you. I apologize for the question as I'm still a beginner. I'm asking it on the assumption that all growers except autos choose when to let their plants begin flowering. They do this by starting a 12/12 lighting schedule but obviously you can't do that when growing outdoors. So I reached the conclusion that it must be impossible to grow non-auto flowering seeds in the early summer from (May-early August) without waiting until September to harvest.

It is important to me because I will be home from college from May 2nd-August 20th and I have the opportunity to grow outdoors during that time frame.

Inkraven said:

Okay thank you. I apologize for the question as I'm still a beginner. I'm asking it on the assumption that all growers except autos choose when to let their plants begin flowering. They do this by starting a 12/12 lighting schedule but obviously you can't do that when growing outdoors. So I reached the conclusion that it must be impossible to grow non-auto flowering seeds in the early summer from (May-early August) without waiting until September to harvest.

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It's cool we all gotta start eventually. again your thinking to much and not re searching. some stains might harvest in november, you don't know. everything is different and all about circumstances and variables. Best advice i could give you is stop thinking so much into it, and just go and do as much research as you can on growing outdoors. take it easy man.

Inkraven said:

Okay thank you. I apologize for the question as I'm still a beginner. I'm asking it on the assumption that all growers except autos choose when to let their plants begin flowering. They do this by starting a 12/12 lighting schedule but obviously you can't do that when growing outdoors. So I reached the conclusion that it must be impossible to grow non-auto flowering seeds in the early summer from (May-early August) without waiting until September to harvest.

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Your question was already answered. Light deprivation. ... u r thinking about it to much it's simple really ...The lights keeping your plant in veg.. introduce darkness....If you understand how Marijuana naturally grows then you should be able to answer your own question. ..There are no special words or additives that you can say or feed your plant light schedule is what determines whether your plants vegging or budding.....

My photoperiods I put out on Jan 25 have started budding, but should return to veg now that there's more than 12 hrs of light a day.