Why do wild marijuana plants don't flower early?

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kkhhaadd

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I know that wild marijuana plants are indigenous plants in a lot of regions and countries, especially that some of these places are near the equator, that means they are in low latitude places. They sprout in springs and then thrive in hot summers, I can say that the mother nature's power is amazing, really big and huge. But, why they don't flower early? In those places maybe the longest day light hour in a year is not more than 14 hours and the wild marijuana plants will be flowering after September.

Need I to sow my seeds outside at early spring for natural growing? But if the seeds were processed like this, they won't get good care.


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rikdabrick

rikdabrick

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Plants adapt to the amount of daylight hours fairly quickly. The mother plant "records" climate variations and passes it on in the seeds. Directly on the equator the summer and winter hours can vary only by minutes and the plants will still adapt to it. If you're in the tropics your plants will most likely flower whenever you put them outside since they don't look like tropical landrace varieties. I'm in the tropics and, except for far leaning sativas, most plants will flower right away even during the summer.
 
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kkhhaadd

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rikdabrick said:
Plants adapt to the amount of daylight hours fairly quickly. The mother plant "records" climate variations and passes it on in the seeds. Directly on the equator the summer and winter hours can vary only by minutes and the plants will still adapt to it. If you're in the tropics your plants will most likely flower whenever you put them outside since they don't look like tropical landrace varieties. I'm in the tropics and, except for far leaning sativas, most plants will flower right away even during the summer.
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Is it means my project to plant them outside will make no sense because no matter what I do, definitely they will flower?

I'm searching for materials to buy on the web now, really need your expertise, this is the first time for me to grow 12/12 photoperiod strains.
 
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rikdabrick said:
Plants adapt to the amount of daylight hours fairly quickly. The mother plant "records" climate variations and passes it on in the seeds. Directly on the equator the summer and winter hours can vary only by minutes and the plants will still adapt to it. If you're in the tropics your plants will most likely flower whenever you put them outside since they don't look like tropical landrace varieties. I'm in the tropics and, except for far leaning sativas, most plants will flower right away even during the summer.
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What should I do now? Please help, it's pretty tough for me to handle it. Those two plants are under 24 hours in order to stop early budding. It works with it, I haven't seen more pistils appear so far.

1.Should I mimic the natural day light hours as quickly as possible? How long should I decrease per day? And what's the appropriate time to transplant them outside? BTW my latitude is 28.3 in northern hemisphere, the longest day hour is in summer solstice, no more than 15 hours.

2.I have another two plants in seedling stage, I put them on my window sill when the dark night coming and put them under the LED grow light after I wake up, they receive the light at the time of sunrise. The light hours they've received is nearly as long as the natural light hours. It won't be influenced like the older two plants, right?

3. Next year if I'm still going to plant outside, what should I do? Just sowing seeds in the fields? In my place the early spring is always cloudy and rainy, that means there is not doubt that the plants will be spindly growing.

The two bigger plants are Critical Kush and Critical+, the other younger girls are Blue Cheese and Cheese.

I appreciate your help! If my dream come true, you'll be my benefactor!
 
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CA MTN MAN

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Well you've got two options, you can lower your light to 18/6 for about three more weeks and then put them out after that when the sun should be at 14 hours, and it should keep veg. Or you can just keep them under 24 hours of light inside and grow them as fast and big as you can until you run out of indoor space, then throw them out. If this where a clone I'd say your screwed but I think you can keep a seed in veg if it's not to strong of an indica. Double jj , nuggs , garden boss and some of the others I'm forgetting will probably have some better answers for you soon here.
 
doublejj

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The reason wild plants don't flower early is because they sprout when the conditions are right (day length & temp) in the spring, grow thru the summer & flower when the conditions are right in the fall. It is when you start trying to move plants from indoors to outdoors is where things can get tricky. If you sprout your seeds outside in Apr-May-June, you will be fine....good luck
 
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kkhhaadd

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CA MTN MAN said:
Well you've got two options, you can lower your light to 18/6 for about three more weeks and then put them out after that when the sun should be at 14 hours, and it should keep veg. Or you can just keep them under 24 hours of light inside and grow them as fast and big as you can until you run out of indoor space, then throw them out. If this where a clone I'd say your screwed but I think you can keep a seed in veg if it's not to strong of an indica. Double jj , nuggs , garden boss and some of the others I'm forgetting will probably have some better answers for you soon here.
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I'm crying now. :-(Last night when I observe those little branches I still found some tiny buds, I will show you that. Plants are under 24 hours and haven't stopped budding so far.

The negligence of putting them outside spoils everything, I was planning to use the older two plants as mother plants...Can I still use them to get clones? The bigger two plants grow from seeds' germination, it's not a clone.
 
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kkhhaadd

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doublejj said:
The reason wild plants don't flower early is because they sprout when the conditions are right (day length & temp) in the spring, grow thru the summer & flower when the conditions are right in the fall. It is when you start trying to move plants from indoors to outdoors is where things can get tricky. If you sprout your seeds outside in Apr-May-June, you will be fine....good luck
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This is a really big lesson for me, just getting knowledge from the internet, videos and books are not enough, I really need to practice, otherwise it will be like this, everything screws up...

And, I'm living in 28.3 latitude in northern hemisphere, and can I spout seeds in March? And I must get a green house, right?

Thanks for your reply, so informative and helpful for me.
 
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kkhhaadd

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rikdabrick said:
Plants adapt to the amount of daylight hours fairly quickly. The mother plant "records" climate variations and passes it on in the seeds. Directly on the equator the summer and winter hours can vary only by minutes and the plants will still adapt to it. If you're in the tropics your plants will most likely flower whenever you put them outside since they don't look like tropical landrace varieties. I'm in the tropics and, except for far leaning sativas, most plants will flower right away even during the summer.
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Well, I'm sorry to bother you again. Considering the low latitude where I live, could you please recommend some strains for outdoor planting? I'm browsing for some colorful strains such as GDP and Purple Bud...
 
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kkhhaadd

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doublejj said:
You will be in good shape with most strains, just don't start them so early...
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Okay, I have learned a lot from this. Originally I intended to plant as many as possible, now the fantasy was ruined. I can grow even 25,000 plants by guerilla growing in my place, maybe I can make a crowd-funding here. Low investment and high profits in return, uh huh.:bigjoint:
 
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