Anyone else (in New England) still waiting for flower to start.??

I've grown outside off and on (mostly in Massachusetts) for a good deal of my life. I've yet to have a plant this far into August without some sort of flower.
Honestly I know nothing of this strain however. A friend claims his friend grows this a few towns over and it's a Jack Herer strain. It wasn't going in any of my tents without some sort of history so outdoors it went May 24th 2020.
I swear I've grown other sativa leaning hybrids that didn't take this long to flower outdoors but I didn't keep notes back when it wasn't legal haha.! Anyone else having this issue.?

Yes.

I have a bunch of strains from Greenpoint. This is my first year growing so I don't have any point of comparison but one of them still doesn't show much except some enlarged pistils (Chinook Haze). Another is just barely forming what I would call recognizable flowers (Copper Chem).

The other 3 strains I have just started in the past week or two. But two of them already have "budlets" and the third is close behind.

Others on the forum have noted late starts this summer. Must have to do with the weather?

Here in Maine we just had our first cool night in quite a while last night--and tonight it's supposed to go down into the forties. Maybe that will kick start things a bit.

I'm not sure what the interplay is between length of darkness and temperature but I hear when the nights get cold the flowering really accelerates. Makes sense if you view it from the plant's perspective as a regeneration mechanism. Gotta reproduce before winter comes!

DvLnDsGyZ said:

I've grown outside off and on (mostly in Massachusetts) for a good deal of my life. I've yet to have a plant this far into August without some sort of flower.
Honestly I know nothing of this strain however. A friend claims his friend grows this a few towns over and it's a Jack Herer strain. It wasn't going in any of my tents without some sort of history so outdoors it went May 24th 2020.
I swear I've grown other sativa leaning hybrids that didn't take this long to flower outdoors but I didn't keep notes back when it wasn't legal haha.! Anyone else having this issue.?

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Looks like your plant is stretching now or just finishing the stretch.. She should be showing signs of full flowering within the next week or two at most i would say.

Be careful late season because they may be cutting it close to finishing on time before the weather really hits, depending on where you live.

DvLnDsGyZ said:

I've grown outside off and on (mostly in Massachusetts) for a good deal of my life. I've yet to have a plant this far into August without some sort of flower.
Honestly I know nothing of this strain however. A friend claims his friend grows this a few towns over and it's a Jack Herer strain. It wasn't going in any of my tents without some sort of history so outdoors it went May 24th 2020.
I swear I've grown other sativa leaning hybrids that didn't take this long to flower outdoors but I didn't keep notes back when it wasn't legal haha.! Anyone else having this issue.?

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Jack is a full blown sativa! That pic shows a nov harvest

She's definitely been stretching, probably put on a good 3 feet of vertical growth and at least that in girth in the last 2-3 weeks. She bushed out more than I anticipated and more than the others did. 2 other plants on the property started flowering July 1st (way earlier than I thought) and 2 others around August 2nd.
The Jack Herer I grew a few years back was from seedsman and was a 60/40 sativa hybrid and took every day of 10 weeks to flower (indoors) and probably could have gone another week but I needed the tent, so IF this is indeed a JH that'd put her around Thanksgiving week or week before if she's still 2 weeks from flowering. I don't think she'll make it that long though lol.!

unfortunately yeah, especially if you're in Mass...

We gotta pick strains to grow over their ability to suit our environment more than any other reason. At least for outdoors, barring any light dep or anything.

I took 6 clones off her today. I don't think it'll finish flowering but I'll be able to watch it and see if it herms or not and then make a decision on the lives of the clones lol

DvLnDsGyZ said:

I've grown outside off and on (mostly in Massachusetts) for a good deal of my life. I've yet to have a plant this far into August without some sort of flower.
Honestly I know nothing of this strain however. A friend claims his friend grows this a few towns over and it's a Jack Herer strain. It wasn't going in any of my tents without some sort of history so outdoors it went May 24th 2020.
I swear I've grown other sativa leaning hybrids that didn't take this long to flower outdoors but I didn't keep notes back when it wasn't legal haha.! Anyone else having this issue.?

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I just started to see buds forming the last day or so. Supposedly these are grand daddy. I started these end of May as seedlings. Put outside first week of June.

I've got some greenpoint purple outlaws I just uprooted 3 out of 6 that were males. They're a bit small but look to be showing preflowers.

My Captain's cakes and loompas headband stopped stretch and showed flowers a month ago. Those are gonna be ran again next year for sure. My GG4, dosidos, sunset sherbert all are just now showing flowers but stopped stretching a week or two ago

I have three on the back deck that have been flowering for a month now, coming along slow but filling in nicely for there size. I'm right on the water so i try to keep them smaller to avoid storm and wind damage.

I’m in mass, my plants are definitely a few weeks late as opposed to the last couple years but are in full flower mode now

In mass i have a skywalka ghost kush and she just hit flower a little more than a week ago

tkmk said:

In mass i have a skywalka ghost kush and she just hit flower a little more than a week ago

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Are those from "big head" seeds?

Blue Pirate said:

Are those from "big head" seeds?

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Yes got them as freebies lol

Had mold issues with the skywalker

Blue Pirate said:

Had mold issues with the skywalker

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I really hope i dont lol but thank you ill be keeping a close eye on her. Did you grow yours indoors or outdoors?

tkmk said:

I really hope i dont lol but thank you ill be keeping a close eye on her. Did you grow yours indoors or outdoors?

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