14+ weeks of flowering?

Hey everyone!

BACKGROUND:
In early march I started growing an Alaskan Thunderfuck seed on my balcony -- from an eighth of ATF I had over the winter (so technically bag seed). Around the one month mark (early to mid-April) the plant started to auto flower. Since it was an autoflower plant I haven't taken the plant into a blackout closet at night and just let it do it's thing. Now I've done some research and know that the ATF strain takes approx 8-10 weeks to finish flowering. I posted here several weeks ago, wondering if it was anywhere close to being done and was told it had about 2-3 weeks left as the general consensus. Well now it's been coming up on 14 weeks and it looks about the same as it did a few weeks ago. The hairs on all of the buds are about 70% white, with 30% having already turned orange. Since I live in SoCal, the heat has been getting up to the 90s almost daily, and I'm worried this is bad for the plant. I said this last time, but I thought for sure it would have been done by now. Haven't seen TOO much progress in the past few weeks, although buds do look like their gaining new crowns coming out of the pre-existing bud (I'm 90% sure they're not nanners, though I've been keeping an eye on them cause of the heat).
Pictures attached below.

QUESTION:
Is she anywhere near harvest?
Is it bad that as it gets further into the flowering stage, the heat is steadily in the 90s?
Is it possible to have a strain that flowers for longer than 14 weeks?
Am I just freaking out for no reason that this is taking up to some of the longest flowering I've even heard of?


I don't care if I have to be patient and wait another week or even month, but I also don't want to wait too long and not harvest when I should have. I've attached pics below. Let me know if you need any other info.

THANKS AHEAD OF TIME. Please let me know if you need any more information!

Cheers,

If youre happy with the trichs then yes. But I'd let it go till most of the hairs turn orange atleast half closer to 75% would be more ideal. Since it was a bag seed there is no telling what the flower time will be ... Auto flower times are a average / guesstimate and most the time are weeks off unless it been under a 1k light 18+ hours a day ... Hope this helps

And the heat should be fine. It's fox tailing is why the buds are stacking like they are

tekdc911 said:

And the heat should be fine. It's fox tailing is why the buds are stacking like they are

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Can the foxtailing hurt possible yield? Is the foxtailing because of the heat?

I think the foxtailing is strain related, but heat can contribute. I've grown similar plants that seemed like they would go on forever if I let them. I just don't have the patience for long running sativas. My advice is hold out as long as you can. I'm not very patient myself. 14 weeks is as long as I've ever gone indoor. It looks really nice though! I don't think foxtailing will hurt the yield. It will be a bitch to trim however.

how do you know it was an autoflower? photo plants will flower naturally outdoors. I have photo plants that begin flowering in veg every week
"3 more weeks consensus" was wrong?


I think its all done, isnt going to get any better, harvest a bud, dry it, try it and decide.

Newsprout said:

Can the foxtailing hurt possible yield? Is the foxtailing because of the heat?

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It's just a pain in the ass to trim no biggie. If it's still stacking buds then it's gaining weight ....Can be heat can be strain no tellin .... The trichs are what matters

When did it preflower if it started flowering at week 4?

Honestly I think it's because it's being grow outdoors. The plant is taking its sweet time, and probably will be ready like most outdoor cannibis plants closer to September, maybe mid August. If your patient I think you will be very happy as she will have developed a very complex array of terps.

@Newsprout .... your gal is looking quite nice for a balcony grow, good job

personally I would give it another week or two....

PS: don't worry about the fox-tails...not ideal but not a big problem....I have had several auto's produce fox-tails....it's just more weed to smoke

Well it sure doesn't look done re the hairs. Is it still drinking normally and are you still feeding it?

Isn't atf a short season photo? If it preflowered at week 4 and took a couple weeks to fully flip isn't it only on like week 8 of flower maybe my math is wrong

BMWEATER said:

Honestly I think it's because it's being grow outdoors. The plant is taking its sweet time, and probably will be ready like most outdoor cannibis plants closer to September, maybe mid August. If your patient I think you will be very happy as she will have developed a very complex array of terps.

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It should not be flowering now outdoors unless it is an auto and in that case it should be way quicker than September. My photo's have not even started to have preflowers yet and auto's are just starting at week 6. Only time I've had a plant stop finishing is indoor hydro that I stopped feeding and just let it go.

Budley Doright said:

It should not be flowering now outdoors unless it is an auto and in that case it should be way quicker than September. My photo's have not even started to have preflowers yet and auto's are just starting at week 6. Only time I've had a plant stop finishing is indoor hydro that I stopped feeding and just let it go.

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all my stuff is flowering,if ya in the northeast an no sign of flowering u running late,how late u run up there?

What a waste of time. My Autoflowers that finish in 65 days yield more

Cut that bitch down and move on

Budley Doright said:

It should not be flowering now outdoors unless it is an auto and in that case it should be way quicker than September. My photo's have not even started to have preflowers yet and auto's are just starting at week 6. Only time I've had a plant stop finishing is indoor hydro that I stopped feeding and just let it go.

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wouldnt that depend on how much light it receives on a balcony? my dirt buckets make it very clear that they are finished and I'm waiting too long to harvest if I let them go past their solid creamy amber stage. water uptake is lessened for example.

peace out

chemphlegm said:

wouldnt that depend on how much light it receives on a balcony? my dirt buckets make it very clear that they are finished and I'm waiting too long to harvest if I let them go past their solid creamy amber stage. water uptake is lessened for example.

peace out

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Even on a balcony I think they would still get enough light to keep them in veg. Could be wrong though as I never had a balcony grow lol. Some of my outdoor girls only get direct light for .5 the day and they don't finish any earlier that I've noticed, ever. I did just move some into direct light but they were not much different from the girls that were full. And yup lot more involved than just one part of the plant, honestly though unless I have an issue they all do the same as far as hairs receded and they stop feeding/drinking, I very rarely wait for much amber though, I'm running out by then lol.

TheTrippyHippie said:

What a waste of time. My Autoflowers that finish in 65 days yield more

Cut that bitch down and move on

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Honestly don't think its a auto lol semi auto maybe but those are really just short season plants that flower after it's mature outdoors but would veg on 18+ indoor ...Iranian auto can be vegged indoors and goes straight to flower when grown outdoors ...... My kc 45's do the same thing. Since my seeds were from a plant that stayed in veg on 24/0.... He's prolly counting days like it's a ruderalis and it's really a photo with a lot longer flower time

I cant find an ATF auto plant, who breeds that one?

Ya I haven't seen that in an auto either, the plot thickens lol. I think it's an auto to be in the throws of flowering though. My auto's have just started and photo's aren't even preflowering yet.