What the heck is happening ?

[Jackiec751]

I grow from seed, 8 years now. Small grow, 6-8 plants. My seedlings were destroyed and I bought clones. Everything went well, they rooted and starting growing. Last week I put them in their final pots in the yard where I’ve grown successfully every year. They are all between 2-3 feet. Beautiful plants. 3 different strains. I’ll mention that I live in SF Bay Area with Mediterranean climate.
Imagine my shock when today I go to check on plants as I do multiple times a day and I find this! These plants look like it’s September!!! What the hell is going on? What happened?
Help!!!

 

[Oldchucky]

Bummer! Maybe somebody sold you some auto seedlings by mistake! If they were taken off of a photo mother that had flipped to flower is just another guess! I don’t know what effect where the mother is in her cycle has on the clones! But somebody here probably will! And are you sure you kept them under 18 six from the time you got them till you put them out? Just two cents!

 

[Jackiec751]

Bummer! Maybe somebody sold you some auto seedlings by mistake! If they were taken off of a photo mother that had flipped to flower is just another guess! I don’t know what effect where the mother is in her cycle has on the clones! But somebody here probably will! And are you sure you kept them under 18 six from the time you got them till you put them out? Just two cents!

Thanks for responding. Yes they were under 18 six the entire time. So am I screwed? What do I do? Just let them go let them flower? I suppose there’s nothing else I can do.

 

[Oldchucky]

Yeah, this is a bad time of year for this to happen! A little late to start over completely! If you’re sure they are photo you could try a Hail Mary by taking them back in under the light and try and speed up a reveg by giving them some long hours! But that will still take weeks! Or you can leave them out and see what happens! I’ve never had any luck with premature flowering photos, revegging under natural light! They always just stall out on me! I’m a couple hundred miles north of you! It’s an expensive proposition to rig five more pots and try and find some teens to put in them! But these plants grow like crazy during July and August! You will be surprised what a little plant can turn into in that time! You’ve been growing a while! You’ve seen it! The Bay Area probably has nurseries where you can score teens or at least seedlings!

 

[HerbalEdu]

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[Oldchucky]

It’s just kind of weird that they would go to flower almost simultaneously when placed outside! Very clone like! Nothing like a good who done it!

 

[HerbalEdu]

My seedlings were destroyed and I bought clones.

Maybe somebody sold you some auto seedlings by mistake! If they were taken off of a photo mother that had flipped to flower is just another guess!

It’s just kind of weird that they would go to flower almost simultaneously when placed outside! Very clone like! Nothing like a good who done it!

clones indeed : )

 

[RootFarmer]

Change in the light schedule when moving clones outdoors is not uncommon. They respond to a change in the dark hours. Depending on the prior light schedule and how soon you put them out can affect how far they transition. His year I'm running into your situation myself for the first time. Plants respond very slowly to natural light changes because it's so gradual. A sudden change and they react just like when you flip indoors unless the light schedule is restored right away.
Hard to say how a plant will respond. I've seen some just grow stretchy, spindly, sparse plants and I've seen some end up with massive fat colas with almost no leaves practically.

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

I don’t know what effect where the mother is in her cycle has on the clones!

My understanding is that clones are the same age as the mother plant.

What happened?

It happened to me this year. I live up north in the Puget Sound region. We had some hot weather, so I put them out thinking summer had arrived. After a few days, the weather became cold and rainy, and stayed that way. I think the plants may have been shocked by the cold and that's what caused them to flower early. I had already transplanted them to big pots, so I couldn't bring them back inside. So, I'm just letting them go and expecting to harvest only a few grams each. They're Purple Lemonade autos from RQS.

 

[RootFarmer]

Was just walking the garden and noticed that the Pineapple Express is already going back to 3 and maybe 5 blades. It was about where yours is when it started to reveg. So yours will probably be fine.