What Do You Think Of This?

JW333

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OGK and Sweet ZZ from RQS. Seeds sprouted on 06.27.24 and have been outside since 07.11.24. A couple weeks ago the sugar leaves have all began growing again. It looks like they're revegging. The OGK is worse than the Sweet ZZ. They've been flowering since 08.09.24. No amber trichomes yet either. Part of me thinks it's genetics because both strains have been weird since day one. Strange mutant leaves, always sick looking, very low trichomes on the Sweet ZZ and slow growth.

This is my first outdoor grow. I've never seen anything like this on previous indoor runs. Is this normal for outdoors?

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Seeds sprouted on 06.27.24 and have been outside since 07.11.24.
What part of the world are you in? If you are in the northern hemisphere (example: USA) then you started your seeds pretty late in the season. Usually one would start their seeds in April and set them outside in mid/late May. The plants get triggered into flowering after the summer solstice (June) and are usually ready for harvest in October.

If you are in the southern hemisphere, then you put them out too early. This would explain the "revegging" that you think you are seeing. The longer daylight hours will trigger the reveg.
No amber trichomes yet either.
Judging ripeness on outdoor grows is a little different than for indoor grows. Amber is less of an indicator for outdoor plants as the sun prematurely turns the trichomes to amber before they get cloudy/ripe. Just look for clear/cloudy as your indicator. Assuming you are in northern hemisphere, the weather is probably cooling down too much and the daylight hours too low for your buds to ever fully ripen.
 
What part of the world are you in? If you are in the northern hemisphere (example: USA) then you started your seeds pretty late in the season. Usually one would start their seeds in April and set them outside in mid/late May. The plants get triggered into flowering after the summer solstice (June) and are usually ready for harvest in October.
I'm in the Youngstown Ohio area. I did start the seeds later than when I wanted to but they still technically had a month to veg before flowering. The days began to be less than 14 hours on Aug 9th. That's when flowering began. They were outside for a month prior. Are you saying that flowering begins on the solstice (longest day of the year) instead of less than 14 hours of daylight?
 
It depends on your location, weather, and genetics of the plant, but most outdoor growers consider the summer solstice as the turning point of veg to flower. In my opinion it's the shortening of daylight that triggers the flowering, not the 14hr mark. My plants typically start to show flowering about 3-4 weeks after the solistice.
 
Interesting. I'm definitely eager to learn more about that. I'm still not sure that explains why these flowers were flowering and full of buds with half of the pistils being brown...then in like a week tons of sugar leaves began growing out again and there's also new bud growth as well. It's new growth and well passed the solstice as well as the 14 hour mark. The Sweet ZZ are purple but there's tons of new green bud and sugar leaf growth so it's uber obvious with those plants.
 
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