Where's the buds?

i have been looking at plants around the neighborhood being grown by friends and they are all starting to flower, heading towards buds. mine still look like they did a month ago, pre-flowers with a couple of white hairs but that's it. they are in the ground, organic with lots of dried horse manure mixed in with the soil, in a greenhouse so lots of light, i water nightly. i also have corn, okra and lima beans there, all are a nice deep green and corn is over 6' tall. the corn in the garden is about 4'. all very healthy/happy looking but behind on the buds it seems. light won't be 12/12 until the end of next month. i don't mind waiting but wonder why they seem behind, any ideas? j

Sativa dominant? Maybe ?

darb808 said:

Sativa dominant? Maybe ?

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Most likely a sativa dominant strain. Do you know what it is? Strain name? Is anyone else growing that same strain in your neighborhood?

Most likely sativa dominant, the leafs will be long and thin, and SOME genetics will start flowering early, some later. But if they haven't even started haring up yet you probably got a looooooooooong time to go haha

duh... yes, sativa. sorry for not thinking before posting. they took a long time last year too, same seeds. my goal this year was to grow some daytime sativa strains, 40-50% or so. they didn't make it last year but i have a greenhouse now. thanks, j

if theres light around it could screw your photoperiod

orellej said:

duh... yes, sativa. sorry for not thinking before posting. they took a long time last year too, same seeds. my goal this year was to grow some daytime sativa strains, 40-50% or so. they didn't make it last year but i have a greenhouse now. thanks, j

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Well you might think about trying to grow some Indica/Sativa (50/50) hybreed crosses. Or maybe some Indica dominant/sativa crosses (70/30) that finish a little quicker. Nothing more frustrating then to finally see them going and then run out of time and since you already experienced this last year, I dont need to tell you. A green house can certainly help but depending what the climate is like as you approach fall, sometimes even a green house cant save your crop! At least this is true in my area. Food for thought.

If the leaf fingers on the most mature leaves (toward about 70% area from soil up) look skinny and long and do not touch almost at all... its probably just a late bloom sativa. If the leaves towards the middle seem to touch it's probably more indica, and if it is in fact indica, you may have some type of nute, or ph issues? just remember sativas are like long gang-ally fingers from a creeper, and indicas are fat as fuck and pretty much overlap. I hope this helps? Maybe you should throw some pictures up, a more experienced person than i can give you a 100%.

Force flowering, black out your greenhouse with black plastic. Easiest with dome type g house. Or giving flowering nutes might motivate it also. Good luck