Flowering Question

Hi guys,

First grow here, very newbie. I could really use your opinons. (SEE ALBUM - ORANGE BUCKETS ARE THE NEWEST)

Currently I have 3 plants growing outdoors the strain is Purple Widow; all females.

To be honest I lost track of how long I have had them outside but the pictures you see are current, about 70-80 days growth. They are about 15" tall.

I have them on a 3 day watering cycle, a tablespoon of bloodmeal once a week for the nitrogen. They get about 7-8 hours of direct sunlight a day, and maybe 5-6 of indirect (shade).

I wanted to get your opinons on a couple of things.

So obviously they have been growing a little slower than most because of the lack of direct sunlight but they are looking very healthy. I want to start flowering and most info says I need to use the strict 12/12 cycle. As you can see I dont really have the ability to do that given its a stealth grow and my options are limited. Given that they are on a light cycle of close to12/12 (just outside) right now (give or take) should i just leave them on their current schedule?

If I were to leave them on this schedule how will I know when to cut and dry? Details would be helpfull.

Thanks!

I went to your album but did not see any photos with orange buckets i saw some pics of three plants submitted like 2 weeks ago. With spring appraching the sun is going to be out longer so your going to have to shade them somehow unless you want them to keep growing. A 12/12 would get the job done yes.

nature should do 12/12 for you i've never had these problems and i have grew outside 4 years now if it gets to close try giveing it 24 hours of dark to kickstart the flowering process i guess only idea's i got


Just got done looking at your pics and you gals should be way bigger then that you must have planted them way late it's hard for me to help you because there is 3 feet of snow here like i said there not big enough flowering shouldn't really even be in the picture

"If I were to leave them on this schedule how will I know when to cut and dry? Details would be helpfull"

Obviously if you have ever smoked weed you will notice that it isn't a leaf it is a bud there for you do not wanna cut or chop any gal until it has some dank bud on it and you useually tell outdoors that duh it's gonna get cold soon and all the pistals are brown and the tricoms the sparkily crystals in newb terms are amber in color if you don't see pistals/ hairs in newb terms and it has balls then you have a male on your hands and your not gonna have any bud you can smoke it if you want it's just not gonna be good prolly make some hash idk i never keep males

IF you are on northern hemisphere your days are going to be come longer, unless its an autoflower, those plants are going to grow for a lot longer