Why are these outdoor plants flowering at solstice for god's sake?!?!

Nate828

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I have a bunch of Venom OG's outdoors in 200gal pots. They get plenty of sunlight, well over 12 hours. Yet, the started spitting out hairs about one week ago and I can't figure out why. It's the only strain doing it and prior to flowering they were showing deformed newer growth... then the hairs. Now they're giving me 3 finger leaves. The color is nice and they're happy when the sun comes up each morning but... flowering.... near summer solstice. So weird.
I'm in Northern California where we just came out of a pretty brutal heat wave. The garden had to cope with approx 100 degree temps a few days in a row but weather like this is nothing new to me and I've never seen it throw a plant into flower. Also, the three other strains are fine. It's just the Venom.
I've hit a few of them with Nitrogen to no avail. I'm reluctant to continue this because the soil blend that they're in is pretty nutrient dense. They really shouldn't be hungry for Nitrogen. I'm currently brewing a giant batch of Compost Tea that I'll apply tomorrow but I'm not super optimistic that it's going to solve this particular problem.
Any thoughts?!?
 

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spek9

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Sounds like they are re-vegging.

Did these plants start indoors, or were they otherwise deprived of or provided extra light artificially for periods of time?
 
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Nate828

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I think I know where you’re going with this.
They started indoors, transitioned to a greenhouse for a few weeks where they were provided with supplemental light to keep them in Veg. Then they were planted in the 200’s outside 5 weeks ago. Their “daytime” wasn’t throttled down dramatically anytime in the recent past.
 
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