Superweird: winter blooming outdoor (really happened)

3 months ago I've put a seed taken from some good weed in a pot on the balcony (I usually grow autos during spring and summer, there). It was just a joke, but it germinated. I decided to leave it just to see if that small plant could survive the winter.
I'm (let's say) in Rome, Italy, so winter can be cold, but not usually freezing and I put the pot inside the house during the very freezing nights.

One day (it was a long time I wasn't looking at the girl) I saw pistils, and then after some days, I saw FLOWERS!!!
Imagine my surprise! The girl is small (about 60cm) and not really good looking but she still have some beautiful flowers.

Now, how can I take those early, immature flowers to harvest? I fear that the girl is feeling that is nearly time to start vegging again and I really don't have room to place her!

Thank you for your help, I will post some pics as soon as I can.

Hey bro she is triggered by the light so flowing will happen get her under some stronger light if you want something worth smoking.

you said it was autoflower....? it should re veg if it auto because auto's are lite independant

outdoejoe said:

you said it was autoflower....? it should re veg if it auto because auto's are lite independant

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I really don't know what it is as it was bagseed.

Bro! Have no fear! don't worry, your plant will grow itself to its fullest potential of flowering and reveg in its own time, she sounds like she needs some carbs to continue flowering for those fatty buds. Mollasses works very well!

BlueChronic said:

Bro! Have no fear! don't worry, your plant will grow itself to its fullest potential of flowering and reveg in its own time, she sounds like she needs some carbs to continue flowering for those fatty buds. Mollasses works very well!

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Ok, I will feed her. I don't understand... do you think she will go on flowering e re-vegging at the same time?

She will finish flowering then veg, if you put your plant out at the perfect time with just the right amount of darkness at night and flowering is fully induced, it will finish unless you put a LOT more light on it during its day cycle then it just says.. hey there is no point in producing flowers because there is not enough darkness for me to produce my hormones so im gonna veg. I know that is not all that happens during this time but its just the jist of it all

and also delstele? are you serious? take it out from nature itself the "Original Gangster" of growing? You have the sun, you have CONSTANT wind, TONS of CO2, the sun honestly is like a 100,000w lamp with a gajillion lumens to cover all of Earth, or at least one side at a time.

Sounds kinda like my deal but mines isn't flowering. I leave it out all day and night. Leaves are falling off but the new growth is perfectly green but with some purple from the near freezing nights. It isn't in a flower stage also. It's growth is super stunted. It's a fighter though.

BlueChronic said:

She will finish flowering then veg, if you put your plant out at the perfect time with just the right amount of darkness at night and flowering is fully induced, it will finish unless you put a LOT more light on it during its day cycle then it just says.. hey there is no point in producing flowers because there is not enough darkness for me to produce my hormones so im gonna veg. I know that is not all that happens during this time but its just the jist of it all

and also delstele? are you serious? take it out from nature itself the "Original Gangster" of growing? You have the sun, you have CONSTANT wind, TONS of CO2, the sun honestly is like a 100,000w lamp with a gajillion lumens to cover all of Earth, or at least one side at a time.

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So, if lucky, she will flower and then reveg. Can I hope, if I just harvest the flowers (at the right time), that she will flower again in sept/oct?
Right now, here dawn is at 7:37 AM, twilight 17:03.
Is it the right amount of light?

Thank you very much.

Just an update. She's still there, still flowering but I think she's ready to reveg.
Don't know what to do... really. Now that the day is beginning to be longer, do I have to put her inside a cabinet for 16 hours and then 8 outside? The day now lasts more than 11 hours, here (dawn 06:34 twilight 18:08).

Thank you, Hank

you still have less than 12 hours of light a day so your plant is just going to continue to flower

Where I live the light won't be greater than 12 hours until the end of March and it won't be significantly different until after april. I read that at a certain point into flowering they will not reveg. Besides she will probably be done flowing before the light changes a lot.

I have the same situation though. Started a plant on the balcony in the shit weather and she grew bigger than I expected. She has small flowers but they aren't progressing very quickly and I think it is due to the sun not being strong/direct enough and the nights not being dark enough.

the flowers look like this:


Do you have pics? Is yours similar? I may start something new in a few months when it is on the correct schedule 2 harvest in Oct/Nov.

medicalmaryjane said:

Where I live the light won't be greater than 12 hours until the end of March and it won't be significantly different until after april. I read that at a certain point into flowering they will not reveg. Besides she will probably be done flowing before the light changes a lot.

I have the same situation though. Started a plant on the balcony in the shit weather and she grew bigger than I expected. She has small flowers but they aren't progressing very quickly and I think it is due to the sun not being strong/direct enough and the nights not being dark enough.

Do you have pics? Is yours similar? I may start something new in a few months when it is on the correct schedule 2 harvest in Oct/Nov.

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They are very similar. I'll post pics soon.

Thank you, hank

It will not finish flowering on it's own. The days are getting longer not shorter. Your plant will revert back into veg mode, and the flowers it has now will die. Everybody always talks about 12/12 for flowering, but Thats Bull Shit. Every strain is Dif, I've seen plants flower at 14/10. The plants produce a hormone that make them flower, Light kills that hormone and dosent allow it to build up to the critical levels needed for flowering. The trick is to allow that plant to get as much light as possible, while still letting the hormone build to the critical level. The more light you give a plant while its flowering, the more energy it has to put into the buds. I always bud my plants with 13/11. If you want the plant to continue flowering, After 12 or 13 hrs of light Cover it up with a box or a trashcan. Something that will keep all the light off of it. Just make sure what ever you cover it with is big enough it doesnt suffocate your baby, and make sure you uncover it before it gets to hot outside so you dont fry it..

Mary I Wanna said:

It will not finish flowering on it's own. The days are getting longer not shorter. Your plant will revert back into veg mode, and the flowers it has now will die. Everybody always talks about 12/12 for flowering, but Thats Bull Shit. Every strain is Dif, I've seen plants flower at 14/10. The plants produce a hormone that make them flower, Light kills that hormone and dosent allow it to build up to the critical levels needed for flowering. The trick is to allow that plant to get as much light as possible, while still letting the hormone build to the critical level. The more light you give a plant while its flowering, the more energy it has to put into the buds. I always bud my plants with 13/11. If you want the plant to continue flowering, After 12 or 13 hrs of light Cover it up with a box or a trashcan. Something that will keep all the light off of it. Just make sure what ever you cover it with is big enough it doesnt suffocate your baby, and make sure you uncover it before it gets to hot outside so you dont fry it..

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We are still under 12 hours of sunlight, here, so I think I could leave it as it is for a while...

Here are some pics:

i think yours may have a bit longer than mine. How long has she been in flower? Mine has been for probably 5 weeks but I had to transplant so that definitely slowed things down.. Beofre I transplanted, growth was very slow because she was root bound. I think I am going to cover her at night so it's darker. This will also give me more control of the light/dark. Is this an option for you? I'm going to use a big box.

We are still under 12 hours of sunlight, here, so I think I could leave it as it is for a while...

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Hank, That plant looks more like its in the transition stage (preflower) to me. It could possibly be in the first week of flowering, it's hard to tell from pictures.. At the least, that plant still has 8 weeks of flowering left. I just looked at the sunrise & sunset calendar, We are basically at 12/12 right now. In roughly 3 weeks we will be at 13/11, Wich is the absolute cut off for flowering. Meaning your plant wont even be half way through flowering before the light tells it to revert to veg mode. IT WILL NOT FINISH FLOWERING ON IT'S OWN.. Last year I put some clones out the 1st of march, After about 2 weeks they kicked into flower mode. I left them alone to see what would happen. About the 2nd week in April I noticed the flowers were starting to dry out and turn brown. So I decieded to leave them be and get more clones ready to put out. I ended up getting the 2nd set of clones outside the last week in April. The first batch had fully reverted back to veg mode by then. To make along story short, The first clones that I put out in march. Ended up being half the size of the clones I put out in late April, and they bearly yielded anything. I think the biggest one was 3ft tall and yielded 14 grams dry. The plants I put out in April were around 6ft tall and yielded just over 2oz per plant. Im no scientist or botonist, but my theory is when the plants reverted from flower back to veg. It stressed the hell out of them and stunted their growth. If you want to keep the plant flowering. I'd cover it with something at sunset tonight. Then keep covering it at the same time every night. I'd also go out and uncover it before I went to bed for the night. That way it catches the 1st rays of the morning sun. Just make sure no lights from your house, or cars will hit it after you uncover it..

Bring inside at night and put it in the closet or if you don't have the space then the darkest part of your house maybe covering with something breathable. Time it 12 hrs. back from your sunrise.

You guys already stated about the reverting back to veg while flowering. The word for that is bolting, it happens when temps are wayyy too low and if its not getting adiquit sunlight aka "winter sun"...either way man to hear of a plant sprouting and growing in almost freezing temps is awesome, marijuana is such an amazing vigorus plant!

medicalmaryjane said:

i think yours may have a bit longer than mine. How long has she been in flower? Mine has been for probably 5 weeks but I had to transplant so that definitely slowed things down.. Beofre I transplanted, growth was very slow because she was root bound. I think I am going to cover her at night so it's darker. This will also give me more control of the light/dark. Is this an option for you? I'm going to use a big box.

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I transplanted last week, and she looks fine now. Mine has been blooming (or pre-flowering, as already stated) for about 2 months right now.
I'm thinking about the box, too.