Loner not flowering

[Branchsnapper]

Howdy. Been awhile for sure! So I have ilgm blue dream, Skywalker og, and Cali dream growing in my hoop house at the moment. Vegged 3 months, been in flower for 3 weeks. All is good so far. No pests/issues at all. But! The Cali dream isn't flowering. It stretched good, threw a few preflowers, and seemed to start flowering with the other two, but not doing much now. All plants have same environment and feed. The other two already have buds the size of a bic lighter, the Cali just preflowers-stretch. Never had this happen over the years yet. Any ideas? I can take pics tomorrow after work

 

[goingrey]

Sounds like it's just a longer/slower flowering plant than the other two.

Does it get as much light as the others, not shaded by a big tree or something?

 

[Branchsnapper]

Everything is the same. 200 square foot hoop house in full open sun. I checked for light pollution, but once the sun goes down it's all dark. No street lights where I live, no neighbors, no porch light in my yard, etc. Not too concerned about it, more curious. Been growing for 30 years, and always grow a varIety of a few different strains so I have a variety of smoke, but never seen any of my plants later at starting more than a few days. It better get moving though, because our first snow/freeze is always right about harvest time.

 

[goingrey]

If it's a long flowering sativa, which it shouldn't be but does sound like, might even be a December harvest, I'm afraid.

 

[Branchsnapper]

Cali dream is supposed to be a slight sativa leaning hybrid, but it isn't showing much of the traits. The Skywalker is showing the thin leaf, branchy traits but it's flowering the fastest. I've grown pure hazes that finished in mid/late october, with a foot of snow on the ground. 99% of any strain I've grown here finish late Sept. Mabey first week October. Oh well. I guess if anything I will have to put some more work in winterizing the greenhouse. Night temps are already mid to low 50's, with days around mid-high 70's.

 

[therevverend]

What's your latitude approximately? Every plant is triggered by how many hours of daylight it gets. Cali Dream is a blueberry SSH hybrid, I've seen SSH hybrids finish in late October/early November. Are they clones or from seed? I'm around 47 degrees N I've got plants all over the map. Everything from hair clusters to a couple landrace types that not sexed yet.

Even if a plant's switch is tossed today it still has time to finish by the end of October. I generally steer away from tropical types and hazes because I like my stuff to finish by mid October although I like to roll the dice. Sometimes you'll have a plant that's sluggish to flip but as soon as it does it goes fast. I reckon your Cali Dream has already done the flip, it's probably in it's 1st or 2nd week of flower. Give it 7-9 more weeks and you could be harvesting between Oct 10 and Oct 25 which is the sweet spot for most strains.

 

[Branchsnapper]

Latitude is approximately 35° but it gets a bit colder due to being around 10,000 foot elevation. I am fine with the later finish than my others. Actually helps me a bit, spreading out the harvest work since I do it all solo my last grow 2 years ago I kinda got too big for my britches and ended up with almost 20 lbs. Didn't even get around to processing all the plants. Just the better colas. Still have around 5 lbs hanging in the shop for decorations as well. Didn't even have to grow last year having more than me and the wife could smoke. Donated around 6 lbs to the local senior home residents as well. Way worth it for the amount of baked goods all the grandmas are giving me now! Lol. Hey I appreciate the responses!