ontario growers...? clones flowering...

outdoorfresh

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hey guys i put my plants outside on may 17th. we had amazing weather the last 2 weeks, just checked on them today and all the clones have started flowering fully. i had them on 13.5 hours light when inside. all the seedlings havent been effect and are looking great. Will the clones go back to veg soon? the good thing is they look amazing and very bushy 4-6 tops per plant now because i topped them 4 days before putting them outside.

really hope they go back to veg soon so they have the rest of the summer to grow. first time this has happened to me, and its the first time using clones.
 

Tbot

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I live in ontario too...and i've been vegging my plants indoors for now...the weather where i live has been garbage. I figure june 15th i'm gonna go plant them outdoors. Mind you i'm just doing 2 plants. Anyhow, your plants might be auto flower so that might be why they are flowering early. Might want to look into that.
 

outdoorfresh

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They are not auto flower. but thanks for the input.
I vegged indoors for almost 2 months before putting outdoors. Had them in 4" square pots for first month then 1 gallon pots for the second month. was close to getting root bound them outside into the ground in 2x2 holes.
 

66 north

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I live to the East of you guys. I put mine seedlings outside once they sprouted into a hothouse it has been cold weather so they haven't done much. The question is can I bring them inside now put them under a light for 24hrs a day and then take them back out to transplant later ?? Will this mess them up ??
 
I have a couple plants in my yard that started to flower as well, but it seems to have stopped now. actually help a lot as it helped me weed out the males early
 

Tbot

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Tbot

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I live to the East of you guys. I put mine seedlings outside once they sprouted into a hothouse it has been cold weather so they haven't done much. The question is can I bring them inside now put them under a light for 24hrs a day and then take them back out to transplant later ?? Will this mess them up ??
I suggest 18/6 if you have the room for growth. I find my plants respond a little healthier when they have a dark cycle. But i don't see a problem from outdoors to indoors. just don't bring and infestation of mites or something with it into your grow room.
 

Doobius1

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Having them on 13.5 hours may have induced early flowering added with stress of being put outside. I bet they reverse to veg but it might cost you some growth and weight at harvest. When I was guerilla gardening, I do 18/6 and 3 days of hardening off before I put them in the ground. I'm in Central Ont. I'm legal now so I cant grow outdoors this year.
 

outdoorfresh

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Having them on 13.5 hours may have induced early flowering added with stress of being put outside. I bet they reverse to veg but it might cost you some growth and weight at harvest. When I was guerilla gardening, I do 18/6 and 3 days of hardening off before I put them in the ground. I'm in Central Ont. I'm legal now so I cant grow outdoors this year.
they were on 13.5 since 2 weeks old. so 6 weeks under 13.5 hours lighting with zero signs on flowering. So for future knowledge is it better to have them under 18/6?
i put them at 13.5 because i thought it would be better for when they went outside and wouldn't flower. I have no clue why the clones flowered but my plants from seed same age and same light schedule, yet the plants from seed have zero signs on flowering.
 

CdnBud

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Having them on 13.5 hours may have induced early flowering added with stress of being put outside. I bet they reverse to veg but it might cost you some growth and weight at harvest. When I was guerilla gardening, I do 18/6 and 3 days of hardening off before I put them in the ground. I'm in Central Ont. I'm legal now so I cant grow outdoors this year.
I agree.........my clones are on 18/6 and never had a problem with early flowering.I suspect that 13.5 hours and the cold nights have the plant thinking it's fall..but everything should work out...after all...it's a weed
 

outdoorfresh

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alright thanks guys! yah i was forced to put them out that early, i had gone on vacation and when i got back they had exploded with growth and completely max'd the hight out on me. really hope this doesnt hurt my yield to much at the end of the season! they are looking amazing tho so bushy and great growth in just the 2 weeks they have been outside.
 

Talrox

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lol you guys are wrong, i live right in central Ontario i had 5 plants out on the 5th of may and put another 5 out on the 20th all 10 plants are doing fine with under 8hours of direct sunlight a day, if your plants are going into flower it means your didn't harden them enough some people don't have to others have to for almost 2 weeks before their plants pick up again. it has a lot to do with your indoor environment if anything winds up becoming an abundance or lack there of when it goes outside your stressing your plants and they will start to flower out of panic that they wont be able to reproduce.
i have yet to find a way to completely revert this but i have found that once determining what the cause is you can prolong your veg a couple weeks by making up the difference, for me it meant getting a wind barrier up which this year actually did completely revert the flowering process but most of the time it will only deter it for 2-4weeks max.
saying that it has to do with your direct sunlight is poppycock, as long as your above your foot candle power recommendation to stay in veg you don't need full light this is a common misconception that personally the only thing it does it forces growers to become more risky with there plot locations such as the middle of a field.....
So first things first for figuring out whats causing it, lights you may not have the appropriate amount of foot candles try running a single 40 or 60w light bulb out to it and leave it on 16hr a day, option 2 do the same with a fan (lack of air is as bad as to much) option 3 wind barriers, option 4 nutrients your soil may just have to much of 1 thing and not enough of another try changing the N.P.K formula to something like 3-1.5-1 duno if it'll work but i know if you want to force flower drop the N pick up the P and K so maybe reversing it will do something.
 

outdoorfresh

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thanks alot for the info Talrox. I just went out and checked them again. I found my second biggest plant (45") has went hermi on me, So I chopped it down. Im thank full i went back out and checked on them because Im not going to be able to check again until first week of july.

With your info Im almost positive that Its because I did not harden them off at all, and the cold nights we have had the past 2 weeks. Hoping for the best now over the next 4 weeks and I come back to them re vegged and bushy as fuck since i topped them all again for the 3rd time now.
 
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