Early flowering?

[chefgino]

Hello, it's my first ever grow and I have a question about flowering. I am growing outdoors on my patio in a coco coir mix as medium, in 7 gallon grow bags. My 5 plants are now only about 5 weeks old, and one plant started flowering. I was wondering if this had happened to anyone before, and if they can tell me why? Thank you so much,

Gino.

[chefgino]

I should include that the daylight in my area is about 15.5 hours daily and the only training I've done so far is topped them. Also they are feminized white widow cbd plants. I assumed that they would grow bigger like until the end of summer and then start to flower? Plus only 1 of them is doing this?

[SoOrbudgal]

Well it happens when they go outdoors. Seed or clones photo plants can go into flower if they are shaded or don't get more than 12hrs direct sunshine or put outdoors before days are longer. I'd just let it grow out, early harvest plant or it could reveg. Pic. would be good. Give them all good amounts of N every week and watch for bugs. We try our best to time it right but mother nature has her own ideas.

[PLreef]

Your more than likely growing an auto. Timeliness seems about right. What kind of seeds were they?

[chefgino]

Thanks guys for your advise, I was confused by the quick flowering, lol. To answer your question PLreef, they were bought online on Toronto cannabis seeds, and are described as white widow cbd feminized. They also included a gift of gelato x gdp seeds, so I am growing 3 WW cbd and 2 gelato and out of the 5 plants only one seems to be flowering and the other white widows started this morning also, lol.

[DeadlyFruit]

chefgino You are up in my part of the world (GTA). I put plants out as well this summer after a few days of hardening and they almost instantly went to bloom even though they are getting 15+ hours of light , much of it direct. My speculation is since my plants are house brands from a seed bank advertising a short flower time they back crossed them with autos to shorten the bloom and as a result they are more prone to having the auto characteristics become dominant. Speculation. The other possibility is that they went quite quickly from 18/6 under lights to about 15 hours of sunlight (and the rain we had recently early in their time outside). That sudden reduction in light may have triggered bloom even though they are getting a good deal more than 12/12 light. I am hoping they stay in bloom rather than re-veg. Would rather get more bloom time on a smaller plant than have them shed the blooms and go back to veg, slowing everything down. We are very close to the longest day of the year so they won’t get much more light than this.

[chefgino]

Hello DeadlyFruit, thank you so much for your knowledge. It is my first time growing cannabis as I said earlier, and I really appreciate the help from more experienced growers. I to hope they keep on flowering as opposed to going back to veg., I honestly didn't even know that was a thing, lol. They wife and I are great with vegetables, but new to cannabis. I decided on an outdoor grow because we love greenery on our patio in summer, and these plants really didn't disappoint. Can't wait to do it again next year and this season is just getting started. Thank you again to everyone here in the community.

[dilvish]

Sure they are not Auto's? White Widow is a northern climate strain so typically a photoperiod seed would grow outdoors from the beginning of June to the end of September. If they are flowering at 5 weeks they are likely Autoflower...which can also be a feminized strain...maybe they got them mixed up?