Early Flowering Unintentional

[Mykol76]

Early flowering Unintentional:

I'm growing in outdoor and some of the clones seem to have a little 'late, since the buds are formed on the stem. I heard that you advised to continue and delete them hoping that grow back then until the end of the season. I wonder now how to eliminate them. There is no stem at the base of the top, because emerge directly from the barrel. I've never seen before. They are quite small but very sticky. What should I do?

Julie

There are three reasons why plants bloom early. The first is that the plants were put in outdoor when the dark cycle was still long enough to force the bloom. The second reason could be that there has been a drastic change in the bright setting. The third reason is that the plants receive very dark, which is sufficient to force this variety in bloom.

When the plants are placed in the beginning of the outdoor season, in March or April, the dark period is still long enough to force flowering. On March 22, the first day of spring, the plants receive just under 12 hours of darkness. This forces them into bloom. As the days are getting longer, the most varieties, except for some of the shows return in the vegetative stage and then normally bloom in the fall. Some varieties of shows continue to flourish and never return in the vegetative stage.

When some varieties of seedlings or clones are grown under continuous light or with a long photoperiod of 20 hours of light daily, and then put in outdoor, where they receive only 14-15 hours of light, this change is enough to trigger flowering also if this variety do not usually blooms with 9-10 hours of darkness. Plants with this problem usually readapt passing in vegetative growth after a few weeks.

The varieties differ in the number of hours of darkness required to start flowering. The early-maturing varieties usually require only 8-9 hours of uninterrupted darkness per day to get in bloom. In areas at low latitudes of southern California and other areas in the lower part of the United States and Mediterranean Europe, such as Spain and Italy, hybrids of indica and indica-sativa bloom very early, which leads to small plants, since that the dark period is too long, even in mid-summer, to keep the plants in the vegetative phase. They are instead forced into bloom.

The solution to this problem is the same regardless of the cause: the dark period should be discontinued. When the dark period is interrupted by light, even for a few moments, the countdown of the dark is reset to zero. Use of fluorescent sources or sources in high pressure sodium (HPS). Imagine that the light is as a water spray that needs to reach all parts of the plant. The light should touch even just for a moment.

If the plants have flourished because they were put in the beginning of the outdoor season, you can stop using interruption of light in mid-May. If the plants come from an environment of continuous light, they will need light for about a month before to adapt to the new environment. Plants grown at low latitudes indicates require interruption of light until they are ready to be forced into bloom.

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Tags: Ed Rosenthal

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By mykol76

[Jx-]

Hello

This is very interesting thank you very much for sharing

[Mykol76]

Hello

This is very interesting thank you very much for sharing

thank you friend!

[SukonmiSkunk]

the trick is to slowly match the indoor light times to the outdoor sunlight hours. So gradually, over a couple of weeks, by bringing the light hours inside down by 30mins every 3 days or so, the plants dont get shocked into flowering and start growing right away.

once a plant triggers into flowering, even if its only for a week, it takes a few weeks to revert back to vegetative growth so you lose about a 4 to 6 weeks of grow time, and ofc the plant will suffer is size.

So its worth taking a couple of weeks to get the plant used to daylight hours.