It's halfway through september and my plants aren't flowering?

[birdmundo]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]You read it right. This is my first real outdoor grow. im at latitude 44 N.

My strains are wonder woman, master kush, and ak-48.
all from nirvana seeds.

the wonder woman plants have very small buds they look like they have only been flowering a week. there is only one master kush that has decent looking buds but nothing that i believe is up to par with other plants i have seen at this time of year. the ak-48s literally have nothing but preflowers.

as the days get shorter i cannot help but wonder why this has happened, it looks like i may be getting nothing this growing season. the weather is getting increasingly worse and i can only hope i end up with something.

the only thing that i think could have possibly caused this, could possibly be that i force flowered them when they were small to show their sex so i only planted females at the beginning of the season. could this have caused stunted vegetation, which slowed down flowering? could i have possibly just picked the wrong strains for my climate?

If anybody has any insight to what has happened, please let me know. i can provide pictures if necessary [/FONT]

 

[iTarzan]

Are they near lights at night? They should still flower even though you sexed them early in the season. Many people have done this including myself.

 

[birdmundo]

no there are guerilla grown so they are in complete darkness at night. i'm pretty baffled as to how this could have happened.

 

[Budley Doright]

Im at almost 44 degrees myself.....


What you are experiencing is not that unusual....


Some strains will make it this far north.... but they must be carefully selected.....

I have been in your shoes more times than I care to mention.....

Frost coming...and no buds.......

sorry.....

I looked at he kush mountains...and that is 35 to 38 latitude

 

[GoeRilla]

Plant outdoor strains next time.
I´m at 57 N and have harvested some already, ie. Guerilla Gold#2.

Rilla.

 

[mack 10]

Most indoor strains will not even start to flower untill mid sept @50.
Go for early outddor strains. if you check the uk outdoor thread you will see what can be done, with the right strain selection.
I also have some indoor strains outside and they will never finish in time...

 

[therevverend]

Patience is a virtue outdoors. As long as it doesn't freeze you'll be ok. Even if you lose half to mold that's still half more than you would of got if you hadn't tried. If something does start to mold remove it immediately. The rest will be fine. A few cool nights and rain are inevitable. Watch it if they're sopping wet for more than two days.
You still have two more days of summer. So it isn't even switched to 12/12 yet. This far north it seems like it takes forever to flower but once it starts it goes faster than indoors. My plants have at least 2-3 weeks to go some are only starting to get frosty just puffs of white hairs. I'd rather wait and see them plump up and lose some to mold than hack them early and spend all winter smoking rag weed.

 

[therevverend]

My mistake this year might of been bigger pots. A friend used the same strains but allowed his plants to get ridiculously rootbound. I was making fun of them last month but he's almost finished now. And they plumped out to frosty spears.
Mine in the ground and in huge pots with plenty of space spent all summer getting massive only now are they switching into real flowering. So it'll be close whether I get good yield or get screwed by mold. But I like taking risks..

 

[Scrappy-doo]

I have some strains nearly finished and others not even halfway thru flower at 41N. You're not doing too bad I know at my lat I have another month plus before there's gonna be any major concerns about finishing.

 

[birdmundo]

thanks for the quick responses guys. im gonna wait it out and watch them very closely to hopefully get as much as i can. does anyone else have any good.strain recommmendations for my lat? like i.said this is my first time planting.outdoors and im used to indoor growing a.lot more. at the very least im hoping i can learn enough from my mistakes this year to produce a quality harvest in the years to come.

 

[birdmundo]

also, could my holes play a role in my flowering time? i planted them browndirtwarrior style with contractor bags and a half of a bale of promix per plant. the plants are about 5 feet tall and bushy.

 

[Budley Doright]

If you want a pretty much guarantee harvest...


look at the auto-flowering strains.....

I suspect there are quite a few threads growing them indoors and out....


I did a quick peek and there are about a zillion threads with autoflowering in the title....

 

[Budley Doright]

also, could my holes play a role in my flowering time? i planted them browndirtwarrior style with contractor bags and a half of a bale of promix per plant. the plants are about 5 feet tall and bushy.

Not really.... its all about genetics.....

 

[birdmundo]

If you want a pretty much guarantee harvest...


look at the auto-flowering strains.....

I suspect there are quite a few threads growing them indoors and out....


I did a quick peek and there are about a zillion threads with autoflowering in the title....

I have never really been a fan, but i will give it a shot when the time comes.

 

[Budley Doright]

Me either .... but that is probably misplaced prejudice on my part.....

My quick look into some of those threads made a positive impression.....

 

[therevverend]

I grew a few Autos. Planted in April. Harvested in July. got 10 grams. Nice to have home stone in July but the yield is silly.

 

[neongreen]

I've had pretty good luck finishing indoor strains outdoors @ 51+N. My favorites so far are Taskenti (Cannabiogen), Blowfish, and Rombolt. Got early strains going this year (Viking and Maroc Inspiration) which should be finished soon, and some autos that I started very late, so they are a bit of a gamble. Look into Hybrids From Hell strains if you want to try some earlies.

 

[hicksticky]

Hey bird, I like you am @ 44n and I was concerned about a late flowering start which was mid August.
When did you put them outside?

As of right now all the strains I am running appear to be right on track. White Rhino, Blue Dream, B. Hawaiian, and a couple of B.s's the heavy indicas are sure to finish first especially the Hawaiian (heavy indica dom) but thats not to say that the blue dream isn't in the running
My suggestion is to run some Indica dom's... autos will get a result so will sativa but in our area with weather (early frost, rain, ect..) and what not, is always a concern I would lean towards the indicas that way you get a decent yield and will have time to finish

 

[St. Phatty]

Patience is a virtue outdoors. As long as it doesn't freeze you'll be ok.

Once I grew outdoors in Sonoma County, a few small discreet plants outdoors.

The schedule got a bit stretched out, so that I was visiting them on a morning in December.

It was in the 20's. I had to wade through hip-high water with ice in it to get there.

I remember one plant in particular. Frozen green.

I don't know exactly what temps she survived before turning into a Pot-sicle, but I had to admire the color. I got the impression that she had some decent cold resistance.


>> My strains are wonder woman, master kush, and ak-48.
all from nirvana seeds

For the late-flowering plants, I can't help but wonder if a bit of canopy (mini-greenhouse) could help them survive.

More challenging if stealth is an issue, but still possible.

 

[birdmundo]

I planted June 1st. Started them in the beginning of march indoors. i too was wondering why they hadn't started at that similar time. im hoping the more indica strains finish in time.