Hi guys,how are you.I have a question about flowering outdoor.when does it start?the breeder says the strain I have should finish outdoor 15-31 October.today the day was 15:25 long and will get to 12h in around 1,75 month so it's going to be something like the end of September.so how come the plant is tol finish 15-31 October?I finishes indoor in 8-9 weeks. I have never grown outdoor and that one plant is a pure accident and I'm a bit confused. Would someone be so kind and explain it to me? cheers.

Possibly, they might mean that the plant will finish outdoors in october if it was planted at a certain longitude/lattitude. Meaning, that may be when it will finish outdoors in north amerika say, but maybe in the UK it might finish earlier or later, as the sun has a different seasonal pattern in the UK than it does in the USA.
Just my opinion, I'm sure someone else will chime in.
Good luck.

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You kinda explained it yourself in your post.

Indoors..you flip to 12/12 immediately. The plant goes nuts...flowers...and finishes quickly.

Outdoors the daylight wanes SLOWLY...causing the hormones to also react slowly...and adding the extra time onto the flowring period.

I've seen folks who believed that you had to replicate the same type of "lessening" of the daylight indoors...and it took the guy about 4 months to flower a 7-8 week indica. LOL. OOOOPs!!!!

good luck finishing her up

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cheers Lads for your answers.I've read somewhere that most cannabis plants' critical flowering period is 11 h of darkness daily.it has something to do with changing inactive form of phytochrome(flowering hormone?) to active one and for that purpose plant needs certain amount of darknes for some time.
I'm very happy I will be able to see the flowering outdoor for the first time.it's my secret dream to grow outdoor only once again thank you for answering my question
all the best.

hey raff sorry i missed this, one other thing you should need to know is that certain strains bred for indoor also take longer outdoors than normal.

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No problem Moon.thank you for your answer. the thing is am not quite sure that one is going to finish at all.there's something very wrong going on with its leafs.just have a look.I checked it many times for bugs,had some red spider mites about two months ago but got rid of them.the plant looks clean in terms of insects but its leafs look like sieve :(:( any idea what it could be Lads? I must say it's been raining here for the most of the summer so maybe they just got rotten? problem begins with very small and fresh leafs,they get brownish spots which develope into holes in leafs.I used SM-90 but with no results.what can it be? I'd love to hear your opinions.cheers Guys

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I'm thinking that's insect damage. Otherwise lookin good.

Sounds like slugs to me sweetie. Save eggshells and crush them up and put them around the base. If you can, go in the evening and see what you find after dark when the beasties come out. There is a -plague of them everywhere as it is so damp out. Also slugs will not cross copper. It gives them a shock. Either little strips or copper wire will keep them away. I think someone also said they can get copper tape. The bigger they get the more they will be able to fight them off, Raf. I have lost a couple myself so I can feel your pain, buddy!

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yeah man ive lost around ten this year to them, litter bass turds

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Thank you very very much for your kind answers.
av got only one plant outside and even that was a pure accident.I left out one mum from the last grow due to limited space indoor and forgot about it.it was growing somewhere in the garden covered by beans and sunflowers and it was only a few weeks ago when I noticed something unusual in the middle of my sunflowers grow....5f strong cannabis plant giving the most wonderful smell I could imagine my heart jumped with joy
slugs...yeah...this year is awfull in terms of their numbers.we fought with them using slug repellant and it worked ok so I thought the problem was sorted.apparently not :(:(:( Jangel,thanks for your advice,I'll get some copper wire tomorrow and crush eggshels today thank you very much for this.
Guys,I'd like to thank all of you for your time and help.hope you're keeping well, all the best

hi guys,how are you.just want to tell you it weren't slugs.it took me a bit to click it but av finally found the answer. my sick plant was placed around 3m away from a tree.that treee was sick,branches and leafs covered with balck fungus.I didn't notice it at all.as we have plenty of rain and strongs winds this summer here when it was raining the water dripping from the tree was blown by the wind on the plant.
the plant is down,there was no point of trying to finish it as the leafs mass was reduced by the illens of 70%.a bit sorry but that was a good lesson.
watch where you grow your plants outdoor lads!
cheers.

hey.. outdoors most plants flower/begin flowering some time in the month of august (N hemisphere) and from there they can finish anywhere from sept to nov depending on the strain. sativas may even only start flowering in september or even october... and go on through the winter if the rains dont spoil them...

i guess outdoors you should be picky about what you want to grow... i always say strains that have adapted to local conditions over a few generations are usually best... so rather than buying new stock each year its actually better to make your own seeds every year. and slowly but surely the plants will adapt to your local conditions... but dont expect say for sativas to adapt all that well to northern climates cause they are equatorial plants.. be reasonable and grow dominantly indica strains... anyway just taking the oportunity to add my two cents worth...

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ileso

Thanks ileso that grow was rather very much improvised one.I left out one mum I didn't want to flower and kept it outside for the whole spring and summer.took quite a lot of clones of it and finally learnt how to do it. thanks to your tips on SoG I run those clones through flowering in plastic bottles.I must say I'm impressed with the outcome.I'm also in love with cloning
I put that mother plant down,mostly due to the security reasons. it was 7ft tall, 7ft wide and far too visible but I'will surely try again in the future
cheers ileso