risk of plant reverting from flowering back to veg phase??? help.

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phlsea003

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Howdy

I was a bit eager and planted my plants towards the end of winter. One started flowering earliesh at about 11" and the other started flowering about 2 weeks after (about 1 week ago) at about 2.5ft

The little lady seems to be flowering fantastically but i'm worried she's gona convert back to veg phase and I won't be able to enjoy her in the holidays. I live in South Africa so it's going to start getting pretty hot soon, but on the other hand the winter isn't particularly cold..

They're probably getting about 13hrs of sunlight a day now (about 8hrs direct), is there a high risk of them swinging back into veg phase?

should i just cover her with a bin for 12hrs a day to make sure?

Balls.
 
jahtrip

jahtrip

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There surely is a risk of them slowly reverting to veg.... but as long as the light remains under 14 hours of light your safe...
Are they in pots or in ground soil? if they are in pots you can move them into a dark room or cover them with something to prevent light from hitting the plants after they receive 12 hours of day light......
i just checked the sunlight hours for south africa here is the link http://www.thenetwork.co.za/averagesunlight.pdf
from this chart is shows that you rarely have more than 12 hours of light in your country. which means plants would grow to a certain extent and then systematically flower... so i dont think you should worry because you are always under 14 hours of light....
so ... basically ....
If day time is longer than 14 hours it will revert to veg... as long as it is under 14 hours of light and over 8 hours of light you are in the safe zone......
i hope this helped... if not let me know! peace out.......

jahtrip
 
DubsFan

DubsFan

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Last year was my first grow. It was outdoors. I put a few outside early April. They all flowered early and finished fine.

The key is to put them outside mid May. It's a very long season. Starting early is far worse than starting late. My best plants were ones I started in early July. They got up to 4ft tall even though they missed 45 days of veg. But they were easy to move and manage. Still had decent yields too.

July clones



Here is the Widow just before harvest in October. Plenty big. I had mold issues but that was due to my high humidity.



She's a lot bigger than she looks.

 
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johnnytoobad

Active Member
jahtrip said:
There surely is a risk of them slowly reverting to veg.... but as long as the light remains under 14 hours of light your safe...
Are they in pots or in ground soil? if they are in pots you can move them into a dark room or cover them with something to prevent light from hitting the plants after they receive 12 hours of day light......
i just checked the sunlight hours for south africa here is the link http://www.thenetwork.co.za/averagesunlight.pdf
from this chart is shows that you rarely have more than 12 hours of light in your country. which means plants would grow to a certain extent and then systematically flower... so i dont think you should worry because you are always under 14 hours of light....
so ... basically ....
If day time is longer than 14 hours it will revert to veg... as long as it is under 14 hours of light and over 8 hours of light you are in the safe zone......
i hope this helped... if not let me know! peace out.......

jahtrip
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so 5 inch plants in north america, say corpus christie texas, will go back to veg as the days get to 14 hours? Under this premise there must be a rather perfect time to plant for early mid summer harvest with "bag seed"...(according to region lat and long)
 
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