CaliKILLA outdoor
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I have been growing for a while, but stopped for a while and this is my first outdoor crop. I was only intending on growing 6 giant plants but ended up vegging more like 20. I started the seeds in mid-January and they vegged beautifully. TO make room indoor I flowered several successfully out door by putting them outside March 15ish. They flowered with out a hitch.
I let the others continue to veg until they were just getting too large about (4.5ft). Around April 15 I put out a couple more to make more room. They started flowering immediately. The rest had intended to put of them out around May 15, and so had started decreasing the photoperiod slowly from 18 hours to 14.5 to meet the natural photoperiod as outdoor. Somehow they started showing flower still in the veg room at 14.5 hours so I went ahead and put them outside and transplanted into the soil.
The flowering plants from April put about a month of gains into the buds before pretty obviously revegging.
Now the majority of plants are outside and their crowns have basically been at the same development for the last 3 weeks. The plants look extremely healthy, have thickened their stems, and increased their canopy a lot! The question is how to proceed? do I back off the flowering nutrients and give more nitrogen to encourage veg? Because it is still early will they completely shift back to veg and then restart flowering at a normal time near August? Is the crop going to suck because the plants went through the stressful reveg?
Now I have 12 huge super healthy plants but they seem confused on their life cycle and I am not sure the best way to course correct although it does not seem like it is up to me at this point. Thanks all, lots of lessons learned and I will be ready for next year but would really like to save this harvest.
Also what are your thoughts on decreasing photoperiod from 18 hours of veg time to 14 hours to meet the natural photoperiod
Top left photo is from a plant from April throwing out single leaves
Top right is canopy from one plant
The garage pic is just to show how oversized the got in veg which is one of the reasons I think they flowered earlier than they should have
I let the others continue to veg until they were just getting too large about (4.5ft). Around April 15 I put out a couple more to make more room. They started flowering immediately. The rest had intended to put of them out around May 15, and so had started decreasing the photoperiod slowly from 18 hours to 14.5 to meet the natural photoperiod as outdoor. Somehow they started showing flower still in the veg room at 14.5 hours so I went ahead and put them outside and transplanted into the soil.
The flowering plants from April put about a month of gains into the buds before pretty obviously revegging.
Now the majority of plants are outside and their crowns have basically been at the same development for the last 3 weeks. The plants look extremely healthy, have thickened their stems, and increased their canopy a lot! The question is how to proceed? do I back off the flowering nutrients and give more nitrogen to encourage veg? Because it is still early will they completely shift back to veg and then restart flowering at a normal time near August? Is the crop going to suck because the plants went through the stressful reveg?
Now I have 12 huge super healthy plants but they seem confused on their life cycle and I am not sure the best way to course correct although it does not seem like it is up to me at this point. Thanks all, lots of lessons learned and I will be ready for next year but would really like to save this harvest.
Also what are your thoughts on decreasing photoperiod from 18 hours of veg time to 14 hours to meet the natural photoperiod
Top left photo is from a plant from April throwing out single leaves
Top right is canopy from one plant
The garage pic is just to show how oversized the got in veg which is one of the reasons I think they flowered earlier than they should have
