Help needed for outdoor force flowering

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Hopefully I will get some replies. I have a guerilla grow here in scotland and the weather this year has been fantastic. I normally grow autos, some bad, some success, and learned from mistakes. This far north is difficult for photos but decided to take a chance with 1 strawberry blue as grew this strain indoors years ago and loved it. I do have autos as well.

Am trying to forceflower my strawberry blue at the moment. With the really good weather this plant has taken off big style and it put out 4 main branches from the off. Weird growth but am happy with it and it wasnt topped. Now to the main question: placed a garden bag plus black bag over the top of that to cover the plant. Do this around 6pm and take off at 10pm (saves getting up early in the morning to do it). Also stop the plant sweating and perhaps causing mold issues. Have to shove a lot of the plant in but take my time so as not to break anything. Only problem is i cant cover the whole plant. Can cover around 2/3 but there are some branches hanging out the bottom and the bottom is not covered. Will this part uncovered at the bottom stop the top part from being forceflowered. The plant is showing a few pistils but need to look for them.

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I'd be worried about heat (from experience). Got a can of white spray paint, lol?

Anecdotally: When we worry about light leaking into our indoor grow rooms, we're not worried that it'll somehow illuminate the entire plant; we worry about even a little bit getting in and hitting a portion of it.

I'm just saying. I have no real evidence one way or the other. When I tried what you are doing, the plants were small enough to fit. And, yeah, removing the cover as soon as it gets dark is a GOOD IDEA ( <COUGH> I failed to do that) .
 
Well i will soon know enough if it has helped. Went out earlier and notices some white patches on several leaves of the SB. Am hoping this is just bird poop and not PM. Will be heading out later on to wipe those leaves and give a good spray with h2o2 solution to keep on top of it.
 
PM seems to be a minor problem. Keeping on top of it though. Changed the way the plant is covered. I purchased some big bin liners so covered each individual branch allowing the plant not to suffocate or build up sweat and the liners reach the ground so giving more darkness. All in all the plant is now starting to show pistils so the job is done. Will do for the next 3 days before going back to work. Unable to get to the plants on mon or tue in time so will remain uncovered but will head out on wed and thur to cover and perhaps fri and sat. If not the latter then will let nature take its course. Light will be under 16 hours per day so it shouldnt revert back to veg.
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I would use fence wire rings and wrap them with black plastic and duct tape it, you can make them as wide and tall as you need. You dont want anything touching and ideally you want air space
 
Last year I used 90% shade cloth and it worked great and is also breathable. I had a frame around the plant and wrapped it like a burrito every night.

I’d be very worried about hermie problems if not covering the whole plant and/or missing nights, but I’ve never tried it.
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All very good ideas but am short on cash. Plus getting pipe out there would be difficult as well. At the moment a frame would be impossible as i got another 2 autos sitting beside it so no room for a frame, not until tue when they get pulled. Once they get pulled will be making a frame from the meshing that up there making it easier to access and also to cover with opaque plastic if it due to rain for several days (will prevent budrot while allowing the soil to get watered). The bags are now covering the whole plant but cant get out the next 2 days due to work. Will get them covered again on wed and thur, also perhaps fri and sat but work getting in the way so after this coming week it will just be left to the elements.

The SB is starting to flower anyway now so hoping it will be ok. Bags seemed to have done the job. Plants wont get sun at sunrise for approx 1 hour and again at night from around 8.30pm-9pm so that takes the direct sunlight to around 14 hours per day. Will keep you guys posted how things turn out the next couple of weeks. Also check out my journal for more in-depth info - 2018 scotland guerilla grow.
 
I thought I would give a wee update on how my SB is doing. No negative effects of the forceflowering method that I used and I think it actually helped. The plant is now a 6' monster and it has pistils everywhere especially with the new growth. Light has now got to the point at where it wont reveg now. On the downside my site got robbed of 5 autos that were ready to harvest. Shit happens.

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