Oh wow, iTarzan you bring back big-time memories that I miss. I remember lugging water many years during the last part of the growing season. There's no way I was going to let those plants die after growing them all Summer. A few years I almost kill myself with that attitude but it always paid off and was well worth it. Can't do it anymore but glad to know others are.
It’s an interesting thought. 
By limiting the vegetation time you can grow smaller plants in early Spring. The plants above were started indoors and vegged under lights a few weeks in the last part of Winter. Outdoors when the threat of frost was over, I put them outdoors to flower in early Spring. The starting early photoperiod was 10 hr days and 14 hr. night time. At the end of 8 weeks of flowering the daytime photoperiod was just over 13 hrs. Under 4 weeks veg and 8 weeks flowering will yield smaller plants.Creeperpark, how do you keep these so small and in flower? Sorry, I'm stuck on the couch and having a northern lights 5 Saturday morning and not figuring out how you did this.
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When the conditions are just right the plants do what they do. Its not so much the grower but the grower's growing conditions that makes plants grow. Very interesting post you made. Thank youHey everyone, l hope you’re all well.
Here’s an interesting thing; these seeds have been planted for eight or more weeks, indoors, under lazer lite for a male selection of the Blackdog x Golden Tiger bx2’s. It’s fresh seed from last season and I’ve just tested the remaining plants for overwatering.
They’ve only just popped in the last week or so, about a week before the no moon just before the start of spring. There’s too many for this to be a spurious correlation and being indoors the majority of environmental factors have been eliminated; so what’s driving this?? Earth’s access, magnetic fields
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The plants were sown in cool temps indoors and put outdoors in early Spring. The cold temperatures are what cause the colors in the leaves. The plant's genetics are what play the biggest part of flowering colors and flowering times. There are a few exceptions to the rule when it comes to photoperiod plants' trigger times. One hour can make a difference and if you know your strain well you can use that hour to your advantage to extend the veg. or induce early flowering. However, when I don't know the genetics I just follow the 12/12 rule. Thanks for the post. .
Outdoors flowering is a whole different game when it comes to flowering triggers. The slower addition or reduction of time over the Season is what the plant uses to start its flowering. With temperature differential, the plant fears frost or freeze because the ultimate goal of the plant is reproduction before the freeze happens. So flowering can start much earlier than indoors but take a lot longer to finish.
