My outdoor grow

goblets said:

Next year I won't sprout any photoperiod strains until May.

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Sprouting works a little differently.
Plants need time to reach sexual maturity from seed, so it's safer to work with seedlings than clones in this case.

Miyagismokes said:

Sprouting works a little differently.
Plants need time to reach sexual maturity from seed, so it's safer to work with seedlings than clones in this case.

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That is what I noticed. The ones I started from cutting were much worse in terms of starting to flower early.
I was thinking that I need a strain that needed a longer light cycle to flower but maybe I need to be looking for a strain that takes a long time to reach sexual maturity.

goblets said:

That is what I noticed. The ones I started from cutting were much worse in terms of starting to flower early.
I was thinking that I need a strain that needed a longer light cycle to flower but maybe I need to be looking for a strain that takes a long time to reach sexual maturity.

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I'm not sure about all that...
Just keep them indoors until later in the season.
EDIT- a trick we use here to help acclimatization is to drift your photoperiod down to match the outdoor cycle slowly. Ten minutes a day is my buddy's rule. Although I typically take the hit instead and just put them out.
Although I'd aim for quick finishers, since we're on the topic.

Here is another pic. This plant did not start flowering as bad as the others. I need to keep it below the fence line.

These 2 are clones off the same whild Thailand strane. They were cut at the same time but the one that is flowering less took longer to root.

Here are some interesting ones. These 4 are all the same plant. It was grown from seed and started flowering like the others. I had a bottom branch I was cutting back to get a thick stem to clone later. Here is the top which seems to be struggling to reveg.

Now this is a branch that is vegging vigorously

Bacala said:

What do you mean? What is it about your location that would force a plant to bloom so early? Doesn't make sense.

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Why doesn't it? 2x a year you will have a period of time where you can flower outdoors. In the fall and starting in late winter. I have a green house and have flowered outside many many times in the late winter/ early spring.

All you need is around a 12/12 really don't even need that. Where I live plants start showing sex typically last week of July, some varieties later like Sativa's for example. Find out your sunrise and sunset at that time of the year and go to your solar calendar and you will see where you can flower outside in the early spring. Just be sure to chose a variety that finishes in 7 weeks or so or it will go back into veg.
Also it will help if you veg inside at 24/0 then when you put em outside they go into flower and already have some height on em.

Remember in the northern hemisphere the longest day of the year is June 22 and the shortest is Dec 22.

too larry said:

OP, plants can "see" sunlight even when it isn't shining on them. The shade didn't cause the early flower. The length of darkness is what triggers a plant to flower, so running a light for two hours at midnight will trick it into thinking it's summertime. Or you can throw shade to make sure it finishes flowering now. Just cover with a tarp after 12 hours of daylight. Do it every day for a few more weeks and you will a depo pro by the time it finishes.

I'm growing in the bush, so I've just got to ride out my early flower issues.

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I've done this many many times in the fall. Moved some plants outside in the green house and put my lights on timers where they kick on for a few min to make the plant think it's not time to flower. After I got to 2' tall then I cut the lights off. Started flowering couple weeks later.