Transplanted too soon - plant is flowering - I’m at a loss

Preamble: I’m a newb, please help.

I have some Blue Dream bag seeds that I planted inside in early March. After the preflowers emerged, I sexed the plants, killed the males, and once the threat of frost had passed for my area, which was last Saturday, I transplanted them outside. I didn’t anticipate that they would flower, since we are getting about 13.5 hours of light, 10.5 hours of dark here, and everything I’d read said plants need 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness to flower.

I’ve since read that moving them from more hours of light to fewer hours can trigger flowering. I previously had them getting probably 15-16 hours of light through a combination of full outdoor sun and inside light.

I don’t know what to do. They are in the ground. Do I rig lights to try and stop the flowering, or do I just let them do their thing?

plants can flower under 14.5 hours of light, the plant will start to flowwer and then revert back to vegging as soon as the light gets long enough

go go kid said:

plants can flower under 14.5 hours of light, the plant will start to flowwer and then revert back to vegging as soon as the light gets long enough

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That’s good to know. I wish I’d known to ask sooner. Most resources seem to be geared for indoor growers. It seems you have to know what to search for to find answers that work for your growing environment, and unfortunately, you don’t really know what questions to ask until you encounter an issue.

Should I just let it do its thing, then? Don’t try to rig lights?

if your comming up to summer then yes let it be, its a form of super cropping and you should have a large healthy plant when she does start growing again

go go kid said:

if your comming up to summer then yes let it be, its a form of super cropping and you should have a large healthy plant when she does start growing again

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I am coming up on summer, yes. Thanks for the advice!

Will I need to cut off the buds, or will they just kind of go away? I guess I’m thinking of it like pinching strawberry flowers to keep the plant in veg, or deheading flowers, which I do to my other plants to encourage new growth. Is it helpful to the plant to snip off these baby buds?

Cherry Bomb said:

I am coming up on summer, yes. Thanks for the advice!

Will I need to cut off the buds, or will they just kind of go away? I guess I’m thinking of it like pinching strawberry flowers to keep the plant in veg, or deheading flowers, which I do to my other plants to encourage new growth. Is it helpful to the plant to snip off these baby buds?

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Couple of mine are doing same and they did last year and they turned out good good the beast n back started

If you are using long light hours in veg, you need to gradually lower it to match the light hours on the date you are going out with them. The sudden change can trigger them into flower. If you have power, run a light for two hours at midnight (gas lantern). It will fool them into thinking it's two short nights, thus summertime.

Good luck.

Mine did the same last yr and yr b4. They are gonna go back to veg and start flowering around August mid. Finish Somewhere between end of oct- early Nov but that's at 36 parallel

Cherry Bomb said:

That’s good to know. I wish I’d known to ask sooner. Most resources seem to be geared for indoor growers. It seems you have to know what to search for to find answers that work for your growing environment, and unfortunately, you don’t really know what questions to ask until you encounter an issue.

Should I just let it do its thing, then? Don’t try to rig lights?

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If you can rig a small light thats the way to go if you let them reveg you lose 3-4 weeks veg time also some plants just never come back RIGHT after a reveg

thumper60 said:

If you can rig a small light thats the way to go if you let them reveg you lose 3-4 weeks veg time also some plants just never come back RIGHT after a reveg

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Thanks. I appreciate it! Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but if the plants have already started flowering, won’t they still be 3-4 weeks delayed? Or is it that flowering has just started, so putting a light out now will make them revert to veg faster?

Cherry Bomb said:

Thanks. I appreciate it! Maybe I’m missing something obvious, but if the plants have already started flowering, won’t they still be 3-4 weeks delayed? Or is it that flowering has just started, so putting a light out now will make them revert to veg faster?

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If you let mother nature do it take a lot longer, depends where you are up north they reveg faster- longer days, down south it may not even reveg. Iam over 15 hrs with twilight at 44 lat

Leafly published a growers calendar indicating plants may move outdoors early as May 15. I adjusted tent light duration to match dawn to dusk duration in my area for May 15, which is 15 hrs. Over the past month I gradually decreased light schedule from 18/6 to 15/9. Today I noticed tiny flowers on plants.

What is the minimum hours of light necessary to bring about a reveg? I bumped the schedule to 16/8 will this be enough light or should I go back to 18/6?

Chupito said:

Leafly published a growers calendar indicating plants may move outdoors early as May 15. I adjusted tent light duration to match dawn to dusk duration in my area for May 15, which is 15 hrs. Over the past month I gradually decreased light schedule from 18/6 to 15/9. Today I noticed tiny flowers on plants.

What is the minimum hours of light necessary to bring about a reveg? I bumped the schedule to 16/8 will this be enough light or should I go back to 18/6?

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If they are already outdoors, two hours at midnight is your best bet. Flowering is triggered by the length of darkness, not by the length of light. So breaking the night into two shorter nights makes it think it's full on summertime. If you are still indoors, you can do the same thing.