Will plant's bud year round where I live?
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greenlikemoney
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Did you mean Latitude 19.2 South? There's no such thing as Latitude -19.2.
I've seen these plants flower from seed. I have no experience growing in such conditions, but what I'd do (if possible) is use some cheap solar powered path/driveway lights that they sell in the US for pretty cheap. It will keep the flowering hormones from kicking the plant into flower before you are ready, but will also act like a beacon to your grow. Another option would be to shine light on them in the middle of the dark period with a flash light or something for 5-10 mins (maybe longer?) to break it up, but that would require nightly visits.
I would guess there are strains that are fine for where you are, but if you want variety, breaking up or shortening that dark period is pretty much your only option IMO.
I would guess there are strains that are fine for where you are, but if you want variety, breaking up or shortening that dark period is pretty much your only option IMO.
Ace Yonder
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When you say day length are you including dawn and dusk? Cuz the plant senses changes in light so it uses the dawn/dusk included when figuring length. Either way, there will be strains you can find that will work, when grown outdoors it is more heavily reliant on whether the length of day is increasing or decreasing to trigger blooming, and not strictly over or under 12/12, since a perfect and instant switch from 18/6 (or 24/0 for that matter) to 12/12 is only possible indoors. Outdoors, generally, plants will veg as long as the days are getting longer and bloom after the solstice when they start getting shorter. Think about this, there is a TON of weed grown outdoors in mexico, which is also very close to 19 degrees latitude, so it definitely works. That being said, a strain that was bred in a much different climate will have more trouble adapting, so try to find something local.
BenFranklin
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You're talking about "auto-flowers" which will flower in 24/7 of light...
You still need to give them AT LEAST 12/12(12 hours of light on, 12 hours of light off) so that they will grow "normal", instead of all stretched out and anorexic looking.
Hope this answer makes sense.
You still need to give them AT LEAST 12/12(12 hours of light on, 12 hours of light off) so that they will grow "normal", instead of all stretched out and anorexic looking.
Hope this answer makes sense.
st0ric
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Ok this pretty much answer's my question, as long as the day's are not decreasing in length my plant's will be in veg. As to whether the day length includes dusk and dawn I am not sure as I used this website and I have heard the climate is very similar to california with maybe a little bit more humidity, the coldest it's been around here during winter was a freezing 6c with an average of 18-24c and on average during summer it's around 30-34c peaking at 38c.
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html
@BenFranklin I was talking about just in general but I am ordering some autoflowering seeds that I am hoping to crossbreed with the local random bagseeds I have to develop something that work's well in my area without needing to worry about the time of year.
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