Oregon Outdoor Grow

[SergeantGod]

We grow inside which is so control-able but outside is up to nature.

This year we put some 6-8 week, vegged plants outside in July, and OH MY, do they love it. Great size and color. Some in ground, some in Smart Pots.

Now it is the end of August and what do we expect in flowering? When do you start feeding a flowering fert from a veg fert?

When do you expect harvesting? If the rains come early, how do you deal with that? What is your timetable experience?

Any other insights you can share?

 

[Paddi]

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[BACKCOUNTRY]

Hello neighbor! My plants are a pretty average Indica dominated hybrids, and have been under natural light since April, and they are all putting on noticeable bud now. What strains are you running, and when exactly in July did they go out? What light cycle were they under indoors?

I start bloom ferts during the last week of July/early Aug for my girls, since I know the strain, and have observed the time of year my strain first thinks about blooming.

 

[SergeantGod]

They went out in mid-july after 18/6 veg for 7 weeks.
Plants are Medicine Man, a White Widow hybrid, and AK47.

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

They should start up soon, after running a strain-guide for a few seasons, I'd say both will be late October finishers. Plus, the wife used to grow AK-47 in California, and she said harvest was usually right at Halloween.

Those were great choices in strains, except that you may be fighting mold in October with the late finish. Late September/early October finishers can help you escape the worse of western Oregon's October mold season.

Good luck! I know AK-47 is great smoke, and White widow as well, I envy!

 

[SergeantGod]

so.....what i'm hearing is that i should not wait for the sun to go 12/12 to start flowering nutes.
I have a half dozen beauties out there.
When is the latest a plant should go outside?
If they have a 9-10 week flower cycle, is there anyway to induce flowering when you have no control over the sun cycle? I'll change to a flowering fertilizing mix immediately.
Thanks for your input..........

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Indicas and Indica hybrids get triggered to bloom when the light cycle drops to between 15 to 14 hours of light, only the most stubborn tropical sativas require actual 12/12 to bloom.

To catch the regular blooming season, I'd have plants outside by July 15th, later than that and they may lag behind their normal harvest times. It looks like you should have a normal season though.

 

[Ickis]

Hello fellow growers. This is my wild as theory but it is basically sound advice. I don't mess with anything but 8 and 10 week finishers. Sometimes I play with a haze or something to see if we get a mild Novenber start. But that is a crap shoot and just for shits and giggles.

Outside plants get triggered by the steady small increments of longer nights. I grow indica and indica crosses mostly. My general rule of thumb is August 1 or so is when the plants start to respond to the change. Most of my strains start to show flowers around August 12 to August 24. The eight weekers that have hairs by August 12 actually started the flowering process around August 1st. Just like if you switch to 12/12 inside you will see the flowers start in that 10-12 day range. If you have an 8 week strain you count weeks as soon as you switch. So August 1 to Oct 1 is roughly 8 weeks. They will finish around then.

Sometimes even though they are an 8 week strain they might need more dark to finish. They are ones that didn't show hairs until Aug 24. So they started around Aug 12 and will finish mid October.

A 10 week strain might start Aug 1 and have flower by Aug 12 and they will finish Oct 12-15. If they start Aug 12 they will need to the end of October.

I start flowering first on August 1st I use half flower and half veg mix. Then on August 15 or so I start just flowering mix. For the early Oct stuff I stop ferts after mid Sept. For ones that I knew would take all of October I would stop mid Oct.

Do you plants have any flowers yet? Even just starting. When did your plants first show flowers?

 

[SergeantGod]

no flowers yet but starting to look like they want to.
i pot in rich Fox Farm or BioBizz All-Mix soils, some in the ground, some in 15gal SmartPots.
Mostly water, but twice a week been giving them Pura Vida Grow, an organic fert from TechaFlora.

I was planning on switching to their Flower recipe when signs of flowers start to show.

This has been so helpful. So the change from longer days in July is what begins the flowering response???

 

[Dr Dog]

you outdoor guys in OR are growing some trees, definately will be watching this one too

 

[SergeantGod]

Trees are good!

 

[SergeantGod]

Being in city, there is ambient light. even though these plants are not subject to direct street or other light there certainly is some light, starlight, moonlight...

Does this affect flowering?