Hi to all, this is my first post and I really need some advice.
I am growing one gold leaf and one super skunk outdoors, both are photo plants.
Currently, we are receiving about 14hours of light, 6am sunrise and 7-8pm sunset.
This is less than 12 hours of darkness but I am starting to see pistils on both plants. I know its preflowering but why?
I want to keep them in the vegetative stage so I can clone them but…
Is cloning harder if done outdoors?
Will I still be able to clone if they’re flowering?
Yes. This is called “monster cropping.” It can be done by revegging the plant, but you’ll need to ensure that the light cycle is right to reveg a plant.
As far as earlier than expected flowering - it could be an auto, or maybe just a photo that has flowered at 14 hours of light. It’s not unheard of. If it is an auto you won’t be able to reveg it.
Yes, you can clone a plan in flower and revert it back to veg. It’s called monster cropping.
Can we see a pic so we know how much flower hair we’re talking?
Idk anything about cloning outside. I wouldn’t see why not but someone will know for sure and be along to help.
The only difference with cloning outdoor girls vs indoor is making sure there’s no bugs or critters on them when brought inside.
They’ll still need 24 hr light to get them going and established same as ones taken from inside.
If monstercropped then there’ll be a bit more time for them to revert to veg.
12/12 is just the schedule we use when growing indoors, because it makes things easier. Something I’ve noticed is, photos will start flowering with as little as 9 hours of darkness, not 12, growing outside. Granted, this depends on genetics, but waiting for daylight to surpass 12 hours isn’t sufficient to keep a photo in veg. They require about 15 hours, when grown outside.
You can setup a small light on a timer to kick on for 30 minutes during their dark cycle, to disrupt it, and they will reveg.
It really just depends on your coordinates. The farther away from the equator you are, the earlier in the season you can plant photos outside, without them flowering early. Me being at latitude 37.9 puts my outdoor planting date for photos around June 10th.
“Pre-flowering” is a bit of a misnomer. If your plants are sexually mature, they produce single bracts at nodes. They’re ready to produce compounded bracts, but won’t until the scotoperiod is long enough to initiate flowering.
Great info, we’ll I know the Super Skunk is definitely not an auto because I have plants that have maybe a month more of flowering to be done. I’ve been growing them since March. The gold leaf is first one that hasn’t died. It’s short and bushy after being topped, this could possibly be an auto.
Here are images for you guys. When I noticed the pistilos I place them at my back door for them to get more light, I forgot to move them after a few hours so they ended up getting 24 hours.
Disrupting the middle of the dark period is preferred, but your plants don’t really appear to be in flower, as @KeystoneCops has stated. They look like they’re just showing signs of maturity.
Thanks to this post I found my mistake, I didn’t reduce my greenhouse light to match the sunlight before transplanting outside. I have 5 non-auto plants that are still flowering, which will hopefully return to vegetation soon.
