I live in Ohio where just this January it became legal to have and grow cannabis. For well over a decade, I have been a grower in this illegal state, so gorilla grows were the norm. I started them inside then come late May, I could secret them into corn fields, I placed them and did not come back until harvest, over the years I have had great harvests and some not so great. But it was always place them and forget it until harvest, since feminized seed anyway. Now the grow is legal, and I started my plants early like Feb in my basement under T5 lights at 18/6 hours. So now close to mid-April, I moved them out in my backyard, they were the mothers of my clones so they have many growing tips, growing and looking good but wait now on 3 of the plants I have buds growing all over them. I think the sun is about 14 1/2 hours daily now. The question is what the heck do I do? My first thought is to just let them run their course and they will revert to Veg state. But I don't know? I am also wondering if this happened to my plants over the years in the corn fields, but I did not know it was happening. It is early June now and 2/3 months of Veg left to go before flowering should start, the plants are now 48 inches tall and in 7 gallon felt containers.
How do I reverse the budding?
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Run 24 hr lights on them for a week or 10 days and they will revert to veg.
But you still get to keep the extra height from stretching.
Good luck my friend.
Any pics?
Stay safe
Bill284
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Like Bill said that's about the only way to revert back. Would not be surprised if you " field plants" did'nt do this if you did'nt care for them or check at least. I've got 2 going into early flower but 4 others are not. I'm just letting them ride. Timing is everything besides temps outdoors.
I run some extra light that I fade out when not needed.
Otherwise I risk flowering too.
Stay safe
Bill284
Otherwise I risk flowering too.
Stay safe
Bill284
The hours of sun when you put them out triggered flower. Outdoors flowering starts well before 12/12. Now that you're heading above 14 1/2 hours of sun they'll probably re-veg. You can make that a certainty with supplemental lighting, but then you have to maintain that lighting until you want them to flower, or gradually lower it to match daylight hours.
Probably, since you had them under 18/6 indoors. Some of the other outdoor growers and I start outdoor plants under the number of daylight hours they'll get when they go out.
For example, at the end of May we get 15 hours of light, so I start my outdoor plants under 15/9.
Going from 18/6 to 15 hours of daylight caused my plants to start to flower when I started growing.
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Melvin that makes all sense and I will conform next year. But here I am. I will just allow them to revert now I have lots of time. they are getting too big for this early now, if that can be true. For years I have been putting them out and never checking on them, now understanding this better. Photos from June 7th.
if growing outdoor only this is the answer. just leave them there and they will reveg on their own.
this used to be done on purpose when you could only get regs to get rid of the males when the plants showed sex. the rest would reveg and continue. sometimes results in gnarly plant that produces more than a straight grow.
