Is flowering a quick process outside? When does a plant begin to flower outdoors ?

IS FLOWERING A QUICK PROCESS OUTSIDE? WHEN DOES A PLANT BEGIN TO FLOWER OUTDOORS ? ANY INFO IS GOOD INFO 420

My outdoor indicas at 42.3N (Southern Oregon) begin flowering in mid-late July and finish up the last week of September or first week of October.

That's pretty basic knowledge, have you read any books on growing cannabis?

mine start flowering late august and finish as late as early Nov.

Yesterday was the longest day of the year today will be minutely less daylight. As the sun's light cycle decreases your plants will sense the impending fall and begin to flower. Outdoor growing takes a lot longer than indoor, but you should see yields as much as ten times greater than any indoor arrangement. I presently have an indoor crop, which is flowering, and an outdoor crop, both from the same seed, started at the same time. Indoor plants were about two and a half feet tall when they preflowered and I started them on 12/12. Outdoor crops biggest plant is four and a half feet tall, no sign of preflowers, and as much as three more months to go before projected harvest date. Even though I grow both in and out, there is really no beating the potential for outdoor grows. I know you can replicate the amount of lumens put out by the sun in a grow room, but you just can't replace good ol' mother nature.

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madodah said:

My outdoor indicas at 42.3N (Southern Oregon) begin flowering in mid-late July and finish up the last week of September or first week of October.

That's pretty basic knowledge, have you read any books on growing cannabis?

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what dude your way wrong. augest is the chang o time.. not july.im in oregon also.. flower started for me in augest the past 2 years,

yeah last year was my first grow, I started a Silver pearl in mid march and was hoping it would "finish flowering" in 45 days like it says on websites, lolll yeah right. The only to force your plant to flower is to cover it with something so it gets 12 hours of darkness, which would be difficult with large plants, I've also heard you can put them in total darkness for 4 days and they will begin flowering, I'm not sure if you still have to cover them after this, but that would be kind of nice if you didnt. good luck

mygirls said:

what dude your way wrong. augest is the chang o time.. not july.im in oregon also.. flower started for me in augest the past 2 years,

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Same local indica strain for years started indoors in March, outdoors in May with same flowering to finishing times, ~10 weeks. I'm at 1700' and a friend who grows the same strain down in a river valley at 800' finishes about a week later. Other growers I know have later finish times due to different strains, some fearless souls (usually ex-Californians) into November with sativa dominance.

You are on the coast with much cooler weather than inland, where hot weather does facilitate growth. I'm north of Grants Pass and we generally finish before Cave Junction growers, who are closer to the ocean and have cooler weather with the late summer jet stream. Growers of my strain in the Williams area, about the same altitude as me but south of Grants Pass have about the same finish time as I do.

madodah said:

Same local indica strain for years started indoors in March, outdoors in May with same flowering to finishing times, ~10 weeks. I'm at 1700' and a friend who grows the same strain down in a river valley at 800' finishes about a week later. Other growers I know have later finish times due to different strains, some fearless souls (usually ex-Californians) into November with sativa dominance.

You are on the coast with much cooler weather than inland, where hot weather does facilitate growth. I'm north of Grants Pass and we generally finish before Cave Junction growers, who are closer to the ocean and have cooler weather with the late summer jet stream. Growers of my strain in the Williams area, about the same altitude as me but south of Grants Pass have about the same finish time as I do.

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heres my last years grow, start harvesting late sep..

Your plants actually don't finish flowering the first year growing. You have to actually wait for the plant to die, in which it will then give off its seedlings and start the growing process over. god i can't want til next year

ya my plants should be amazing when kiddies go back to school haha lol thanx for the info 420

Gr33nCrack said:

yeah last year was my first grow, I started a Silver pearl in mid march and was hoping it would "finish flowering" in 45 days like it says on websites, lolll yeah right. The only to force your plant to flower is to cover it with something so it gets 12 hours of darkness, which would be difficult with large plants, I've also heard you can put them in total darkness for 4 days and they will begin flowering, I'm not sure if you still have to cover them after this, but that would be kind of nice if you didnt. good luck

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Yea it is a pain to keep covering them, but if the plant starts to bud from the short daylight period and then later on it starts to receive more/longer daylight it will re-vert back to a veggin state, so if it is outside now in the ground and you are forcing it to bud by covering it you will have to keep doing it until harvest. And it can get BIG!
Only way I know of to have a plant to bud when the daylight period (without covering/change the light cycle) is long is to get the auto-flowering species.
When you see adds for seeds and they say the number of days it takes to finish budding/harvest it is not the time it takes to grow the plants/seeds that is the time it needs for budding to be complete UNLESS the add says it is a auto flowering species, then that is the time it takes to complete growing.

Basically you have 2 types of cannabis, ones that flower quickly (auto-flowering) and ones who take the normal time period. They pretty much look the same but genetically they are different.

Gr33nCrack said:

Your plants actually don't finish flowering the first year growing. You have to actually wait for the plant to die, in which it will then give off its seedlings and start the growing process over. god i can't want til next year

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What planet do you live on? Plants don't finish budding the first year? What plant are you talking about, certainly isn't cannabis? Cannabis completes it's life cycle in 1 season, the seeds it drops are for the next generation. When approx.75% of the hairs on the cannabis plant turn color it is ripe and ready to harvest.

Gr33nCrack said:

Your plants actually don't finish flowering the first year growing. You have to actually wait for the plant to die, in which it will then give off its seedlings and start the growing process over. god i can't want til next year

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That's crazy. Male plants produce pollen and pollinate the females which will than produce seeds. If you cull all the males, or use feminized seed or clone there will be now seeds, causing the buds to swell and develope further in a search of catching pollen in the air, which they will never find, focusing on THX and flower production rather than seed. These seedless buds are know as sensimillia and are what most people strive to grow. It is also sometimes helpful to keep males in order to do a seed run or breed different strains .