Solis Maximus Rapidly Approaching

Here in the Northern Hemisphere the longest day of the year is heading our way. What kind of light hours are you getting in your neck of the woods?

Here in Larry Land {NW Florida} my length of day is 14 hours 6 minutes, with tomorrow being 0 minutes 14 seconds longer. I max out at 14 hours 7 minutes.

too larry said:

Here in the Northern Hemisphere the longest day of the year is heading our way. What kind of light hours are you getting in your neck of the woods?

Here in Larry Land {NW Florida} my length of day is 14 hours 6 minutes, with tomorrow being 0 minutes 14 seconds longer. I max out at 14 hours 7 minutes.

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15:15 going to 15:16.

14:39 here

It's been pretty nice here lately

14:30 hear in Ok

14:17 So Cal

14:22
Kind of makes me wonder about the whole photo period thingy? The plants must be going by the day/night cycle rather than a preset time of hours of daylight an darkness. Just this past week my plants started showing their sex (germinated 4/1).

Chief_Broom said:

14:22
Kind of makes me wonder about the whole photo period thingy? The plants must be going by the day/night cycle rather than a preset time of hours of daylight an darkness. Just this past week my plants started showing their sex (germinated 4/1).

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Mine too, Im in Orange County CA

Ive read that when some strains of hybrids reach their supposed sexual maturity, they will slowly begin to flower regardless of light. Not a Ruderalis or however you spell it, just an early slow start to flowering. Who knows tho if its true.

I only know that mine are showing some nice white hairs and bud sites already. Weve had long weeks of nothing but over cast skies almost all day too

got 15hr 26 min here add on twilight hardly gets dark.

blazeaglory420 said:

Mine too, Im in Orange County CA

Ive read that when some strains of hybrids reach their supposed sexual maturity, they will slowly begin to flower regardless of light. Not a Ruderalis or however you spell it, just an early slow start to flowering. Who knows tho if its true.

I only know that mine are showing some nice white hairs and bud sites already. Weve had long weeks of nothing but over cast skies almost all day too

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Did you have them indoors at all or just germinated outside?

NirvanaMesa said:

Did you have them indoors at all or just germinated outside?

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I vegged indoors for approx 30 days and put one out roughly May 23rd and the rest after the 1st of June. The DoSiDos in pot with the better looking bud sites was the early one. A little early I think fur that one but they just started flowering like this about 2 to 3 days ago, with the early one showing a week sooner.

18hrs of light inside? I think in so cal the days are short enough even in summer plants will flower when being moved outside from 18hrs. You cant really do that unless immediate flowering is what you want. That or you need to veg infoors under shorter days.

NirvanaMesa said:

18hrs of light inside? I think in so cal the days are short enough even in summer plants will flower when being moved outside from 18hrs. You cant really do that unless immediate flowering is what you want. That or you need to veg infoors under shorter days.

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Yeah 16 hours on, indoors

Also, they didn't show any signs of flower for over an entire month outdoors, so that is kinda weird .

I didn't really mind when they flowered this time , as long as they didn't and still don't revert back to veg

We've been getting roughly 14 or so hours of daylight, give or take dusk and dawn. I've had them under peach tree shade sometimes for half the day and the majority of days have been nothing but yucky grey humid over cast. The sunny days have been few and far between and only become sunny after noon.

Who knows. I'm happy as long as they keep flowering

Chief_Broom said:

14:22
Kind of makes me wonder about the whole photo period thingy? The plants must be going by the day/night cycle rather than a preset time of hours of daylight an darkness. Just this past week my plants started showing their sex (germinated 4/1).

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Each strain has it's trigger point. I've got a lot of my seeds from Oregon with it's long days, and they will flower as soon as they are sexually mature with my short days. If you save seeds and grow the same strain for a few years, it might get acclimated and flower later. But most of my new strains flower in the summer. When you have short days, photos to act like autos.

14 hours 7 minutes for me today, with tomorrow being 9 seconds longer.

I'm 14.20 something, longer for next few days, then starts decreasing again! Yay

15:41 of daylight here in the northwest. I believe 15:43 is the max. Loving all the sun we're having out this way.

Chief_Broom said:

14:22
Kind of makes me wonder about the whole photo period thingy? The plants must be going by the day/night cycle rather than a preset time of hours of daylight an darkness. Just this past week my plants started showing their sex (germinated 4/1).

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I'm in the Florida panhandle, my babies starting showing their sex last week, germinated 4/6

Actual Time
5:39 AM
7:47 PM

Length of Day
14 h 7 m
Tomorrow will be 0 minutes 1 seconds longer

I had never noticed this until the spring equinox, but the earliest/latest sun rises and sunsets are not matched up with the length of day. This gives a better explanation than I was able to find when I looked into it then.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Sunrise-Sunset-Solstice-Puzzle-Solved