How can I get them to bud earlier next year?

[Jimbo48]

Living in New England frost/freeze is an issue from mid Sept on... been lucky so far(global warming, I guess!!)and we appear to have a nice stretch of weather coming 60s days and sunny,upper 30s- low 40s nights so I'll be Ok for a bit which is good cause my 2 girls need time!!Next Spring I've been thinking about starting late April w/24 hour light inside and putting them in the ground late May.Think this would help to speed up the budding process. I know you can buy earlier budding strain seeds but I'm to paranoid and use good bag weed seed which has grown some descent weed in the past

 

[bbike1]

ya dude, im a new england grower as well, still have 5 1/2 of my babies in the ground (thats right, lol. I harvest half a plant just to see if she was done im guessing another week for some of my plants, and maybe 2 weeks for my other site. helicopters were flying aroudn all last night, so i staid up till they left, then when they flew over my house, turned out to just be the coast guard, lol.
but ya, Im thinking that, that would be perfect. Start them indoors, then move em.

 

[Jimbo48]

I have just two plants along a fence in my back yard, I see helicopters as usual this year, wasting our taxpayer $!!! Not worried about them my grows to small just the frost!! Gonna try 4-6 next year though!

 

[gronoob]

ur gonna need to cover them with somthing light tight for 12 hrs. when u wanna start flowering.

 

[OGkushOG]

You will need to learn to make the summers shorter. AKA it's impossible. They will bud when the seasons tell them to

 

[poplars]

You will need to learn to make the summers shorter. AKA it's impossible. They will bud when the seasons tell them to

nah, he can force it to start budding like 3 weeks before the season even starts, and then put them outside and watch the trichomes.

it's pretty easy.

edit: or he can keep them outside and do something light-tight like someone else said. I imagine that would be a challenge with larger plants.

 

[mixin]

next year i would invest in some good seeds of a few strains that flower faster. instead of some 9-10 week bud cycles, i would go with something quicker. many hash plants flower in like 40-45 days! that may be your best bet

 

[BLT]

next year i would invest in some good seeds of a few strains that flower faster. instead of some 9-10 week bud cycles, i would go with something quicker. many hash plants flower in like 40-45 days! that may be your best bet

And the winner is.......

Genetics! Look for early finishers or at least those strains that will finish in your climates time frame. This will limit your choices. You can try to fool Mother Nature, but most of the time you're gonna lose.

BLT

 

[Jimbo48]

That'd be my best bet, early flowering strains but ordering seeds makes me far to paranoid though I understand in general indica buds faster ... I thought if I started 24 hours inside put them out late May early June appox 15 hours of daylight that time of year that it might trigger them to bud sooner??

 

[poplars]

nirvana-shop.com is pretty reliable. I think they ship their seeds inbetween cardboard. so it's pretty safe.

 

[Jimbo48]

What about the authorities?