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Early flowering, many of us have seen it this year!

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Ok all y'all that have early flowering going on, check in! My first girls this year all went into flower under 14/10s, so I replanted. The second round also went into flower, so I replanted. The third round is flowering also, so I replanted and harvested the first round and some of the second round so far.
My longest day was 14 hours 37 minutes some odd seconds (about 2 weeks of this), and I just new I would get reveging, but no, instead all the third round is starting flowers with my longest days.
I know many others have seen this also, and my question is, are our girls telling us something? Is winter coming early?
Its not just our girls either, I see other signs that we may have an early fall/winter. So what do all y'all think?
 
Hell if i know but i did tell my hubby this. I felt like it was a fall morning on Monday of the week. Hotter than heck during the day it was really cool about 5a.m. My outdoor is 6months old already that's how long i've had these plants. I never restarted any outdoor just said not enough time unless i had big gals. These are still in the change from early flower. We just got our heat wave i just hope we get till end of sept. before rain. But i'm ready they can all sit in the green house till Christmas for all i care. My indoor tent and autos are keeping us a float. ;)
 
Yikes. That is a lot of mulligans. After the beginning of our PNW "summer", I'd really have to think hard about trying to grow anything outdoors from seeds that cost at least $10 each. Even my regular "bred for this area" outdoor perennials are a powdery mess. My mildew-resistant bee-balm is singing the Borg song - "Resistance is futile..." I'm trying Mammoth Cannacontrol on my outdoor garden first - since they will come back next year if I do it wrong.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the year 2020 probably isn't a good gauge of NORMAL on any part of the planet. I've got my fingers crossed for next year already, and am happy I am growing my babies indoors this first time.
 
The weather folks kept saying 100+*, and pushing it back, now nothing over 99* 'cept the fells like temps. And rain, last month was the driest on record (watering up to 3 times a day) and this month we get rain, the barrels are all full.
 
I thought WPM was for cool damp weather, the lows are ~80*F and the highs nearing 100*F, and I have to fight WPM ! Damp mornings from the dew point is the key to the problem here.
 
Here in S. California we're still looking at 14/10 days and most of my plants are still in veg. I do have 2 of unknown origin (one a sativa dom & the other a Indica dom) that have begun to flower and show trichomes on beginning bud sites. Normally I harvest mid October so most seem to be on schedule but I am seriously running out of room to maneuver on my balcony. I trained them all a couple weeks ago and they're filling in the walkway making it difficult to navigate past them now. Do you think some of the early flowering problems might relate to the massive scale of hybridization going on the past 6-7 years? Genetic lineage is getting crazy weird nowadays. There are some very interesting mash-ups making the rounds.
 
Yes and no in my case crucialbunny it was because i put them out to early in a greenhouse without any lighting they sat there waiting to go and the days had too little of light, warmth and mostly daylight was short so they began to flower.

But yes in our area with so much hemp and more growers doing recreational they are not culling males like they should and i've been told by fellow rec. growers who live fairly near hemp farms or large rec. producers this is what is happening.
 
There are folks that think we are destroying our favorite plant with feminization. The thought is that by feminizing a group of seed, growing them out and making more fem seed and never having a real male, we are guiding them to become self pollinating (all hermies). Those that fear this often maintain landrace strains and breed their own seed. So it is not the hybrids, its the method of creating the fem seed.
crucialbunny, nice problem to have, I cant move the big girls around, 20+ gallon pots are to big to handle and roots grown out the bottom into the earth. What I see in some seed banks is no better then bag seed IMHO, I mean like BB3 crossed with GG4, I can do that (and I am doing that as I find this an intriguing cross with potential). It may well be a great cross, but I am not paying $10-20 for each seed. A single plant could bring in millions! (ok some wages etc. would be paid out, but you get it)
 
It is certainly making me do things I have not tried before, like an outdoor double crop. I Have been taking the seeded bud from a Shock Trauma to try to get her to make more flowers. No more males so the hope is to now make seedless bud from the same plant! The Dresden Green Diamond is next, off with her seeds!
 
One of my plants starting flowering in May, it just finished 2 weeks ago, obviously unusual for a photoperiod. As for early winter who knows, but we will find out. Last year was a terrible September with rain and low temps here. I cut all 4 plantsdown before Oct 1 and I swear the buds were a lot more developed than normal for the time of year, like they knew they had to finish early or something. The plant pictured is starting to look like it might be flowering on close inspection, and that is 2 weeks too soon.
 

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My last 2,grows ,I've had 1 full blown hermaphrodite, and 4 others grow nanners about 3rd week of flower. Same set up , lights and nutes I've used with only an occasional nanner issue. Gene pool is definitely getting f'd up. I'm committing to buying regular seeds next time. I've been meaning to expand my grow space anyway.
 
I got energetic and the DGD has been chopped, Off with her seeds! These girls both know exactly what to do with pollen!
 
This morning I am setting here in a bunch of pain, the fine weather folk are saying we have a real cold front coming, and I am felling it. Time to get out some bad ass bud!
The DGD and ST are now in jars, and new growth on both plants, now if they have time to finish again.
 
hello, I am also in socal, and I got 3 free seeds from seedsman, they said they were white widow - fems, so I planted them outside at the end of april, and now they have been flowering for several weeks.
I'm assuming they were autos, and just miss labeled?
 
Or maybe it is end of the world. Everyone is talki g about early flowering. Plants are confused as they think early winter. Other plants not only canabis are facing different changes.
 
My ST was pretty good but not much sour, tangie or fuel. It was super frosty though and pretty potent, good smoke for sure but I was disappointed because I had a particular flavor in mind and it missed completely. I should have ran more than 1 but I wanted variety. I've never tried the DGD but it sounded great in the description.
 
Thought about it. Mine is in shade after 5pm.but during night she might be exposed to street lights. Or house lights but still flowering.thankfully. Or I would be stuck in veg forever
 
My entire garden is behaving oddly. I had a blackberry bush produce a dozen or so berries then begin to cane again. A blueberry bush flowered then dropped them and started new growth. A grapevine that is producing clusters before the vine has fully developed. Radishes that won't finish. Two sativas that began flower only to re-veg on the top colas while now the lower branches have ripening buds. My other plants seem to be behaving normally. The weather here other than a few really hot days in late May has been fairly typical.
 
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