I'm an experienced grower, but looking for ideas as to 1) what happened, and 2) more importantly, what to do about it.
I've got plants that are going back into veg, after 7 weeks in photoperiod. I'm doing that thing most of us swear never to do again....I've got a mixed crop, with four strains. (Starting again after a few years off).
Three strains are happily doing their thing, and will be ready in a week or so. Season seems a touch on the long side, so they've all been in 13 hours dark now for just over a week. (After six weeks 12/12)
This other strain, a Sage and Sour clone I grew successfully and easily about two years ago, started in flower ok, and then started shooting at around week 3/4. Then the shoots' leaves became 'three's' (albeit very pointy three's), and I've had a mass of extra vegetative growth.
Bugger is, the other plants are now getting less light, but I'm managing. I'm focussing the light more on the ones that are 'working' for now, so there's even more stretching and shooting going on as the Sage is getting less light......and is in places far to close.....
In a week/ten days, I'll be pulling out the other three strains
, then I plan to bend the Sage over and somehow shock it into a proper flower.
SO.......the two questions. 1) What happened? I reckon is heat stress, though I'd be interested to hear of other ideas. Light pollution is also possibly there. We had our hottest summer, I'm in a new room, running a closed system @ 1500 ppm CO2, and get a fault in the air con.......
Temp spent lit hours mostly at 30C, three or four times up to 35, and once up to 39. (86, 95 and 102 F)
So for a few weeks it all got hotter than it should, and I was in there at times disturbing the light (though a hell of a lot less than a full moon!!). But the other three strains were fine (all except that an eight week season is looking more like a nine week).
So whatever it was, it's only affected this one strain.
2) how to get it into flower properly. I plan on going to 10 hours light/ 14 dark. Think I'll go do that in a day or two as I finish off the other three. I'll spray with Halo, bend them over........and hope for another flower season!!
Any one got any other ideas/thoughts, especially on the 'shocking in to flower' thread?
The Cygnet