Early flowering for Norcal Outdoor

Sorry, I don't know your seasons, I'm a world away from you.

Are you saying that they went into flower even though your current daylight hours should have kept it in veg?

Is there much of a veg period left in the season?

 

Light them up is all you can really do. Damn late to start over although I have some beans just breaking soil as we speak.
We are just entering the 60 day window we really have to veg in outside. Being So Cal I have a shorter window then even the Bay does. May is always sketchy here except for just planted beans as they aren't light aware that first month.

Cutting off the heads completely doesn't work as that is to severe and there won't be new growth. If I have to deal with a reveg I single out the best new shoot of each flowering top and trim off the rest of the exploded head and try and get the plant to return to a somewhat normal growth. It's a toss up to see if you have enough veg time to make it worth while or let them stay exploded and put up with an ocean of tiny nuggets.

BNW

 

OK I just checked sun up and down in California. ATM you are getting about 14 hours of light per day. At a guess your clone came from an environment with 18 - 24 hr of light per day. When you moved them outside, the sudden drop in daylight hours triggered them to bloom immediately. The growing really well bit was the stretch period now they are flowering. Your daylight hours are now increasing and if you leave this thing alone it will likely keep budding for a few more weeks until It changes it's mind and starts to re-veg. You will loose about a month of productive growth time while it goes back into veg and does very little. When it begins spitting out leaves again, there will be an extremely bushy explosion of small branches and it will begin to grow in a normal but bushy fassion.

You would probably be better off sprouting some beans and starting again, I think the new ones would overtake that while it's messing around trying to make up its mind.

Next time, If using clones I would put them in later in the season, when the days are a bit longer. Seedlings are more reluctant to flower when young, whereas clones need very little encouragement.

 

We see this all to frequently when moving inside plants out for summer. Best time matches are as close to the trigger as possible. 14.5 triggers most strains so 15-9 or 16-8 is best to start new beans and veg them under.
Set out mid May to June 1st that gives them 60 solid days of sun vegging before Aug1st and the days shorten up again and we flower.

Your other option is to add external lighting either totaling more then 15 or match or exceed what they've been vegging under.

I veg under 24-0 and set out 4 times a year so summer is my odd set anyhow and I simply light up the summer plants till Aug1st when I kill the light and they flower and are done mid-late Oct.

I got tired of fighting the preflowering year after year so now I light them up and don't sweat it.

BNW

 

Yes you can. I suppose you should consider frosts or any other nasties that you might encounter if you run extra late into the bloom season. Next season grab some good lights and grow your clones for 8 weeks before you put them outside. Make some pound plus monsters

 

A lot of overcast sky's not enough sun getting through.
Had caused pre flowering in 3 of my plants last year. Then they reveged. I let them go . The out cotcome was a strong weed but very undesirable bud structure like fan coral. No dank buds.
My clients that like it came back for it time and time again.

Hey there I'm in mid Michigan

So when I set out early this year and we had a lot of rain and overcast sky's. So I put lights over the girl's to make up the different in lost day light. At 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours at night for about 2.5 weeks. I took the lights down last week.
And removed my greenhouse cover yesterday.
My daylight hours are at just under 17 total. Istop using the lights when the sun was more visibly shinning around the 18th.

Good luck

What i got going right now

 

Clones coming from a different light schedule will do that. If always plant from seed outside

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Happened to me last year. I went and got a smart outlet for my lights so I was able to control a set timer from my phone. It ran me like 25-30 bucks, most definitely my best investment in a while. My plants have been out three weeks and since I got them down to a 14.5 on 9.5 off. lights turned on at 0710 hours and went off at 2130. Every week my timer went down 20 min.

 

I have a few possibles that may be flowering the vast majority are not. May have gotten stressed out with that thunderstorm that just hit us not entirely sure but will find out soon since they've been out since mothers day..