questions about growing outdoors

i have some plants growing outside in pots,2 are in a massive pot and around a metre tall with some smaller plants going in smaller plants

i've noticed my biggest plants and one of the tied down ones are now getting covered with white hairs,question is,are these pre flowers,or is it the beginning of flowering?or do plants growing outdoors need to get 12 hours darkness before they start flowering?because we aint getting 12 hours of dark here yet,will be another 6 weeks before that happens,which would mean it would be december before they finished,and i can't imagine weed growing in these parts in december

anyway,any info would be greatly appreciated

i've included some pics

first of all ide put each plant in there own pot and make it big pots. trash cans or buckets i fancy trashcans. moor room for the roots to grow. yes about 12hrs of lite is important because plants grow at night in the darkness. one thing you could do like i do at the end of harvest before i pick my bud a cover my plants in a box and in complete darkness and this will make the plants grow like crazy one more last time. so until you get light you could somehow put your plant into darkness for 12 hrs then bring her out so she has enouh time to get equal sun also. hope i have helped you

thanks man,i've never grown outdoors so don't know what to expect,there's only 1 shared pot but it's a massive pot,has about 400 litres of soil in it(and it's still not full),that's the pot with 2 weed plants and it also has pumpkins and a sunflower for cover(my garden backs onto a school),thought i might have had a problem with all those heavy feeding fast growing plants in with my weeds but it seems not,pumpkins have shallow spreading roots which make over watering or over fertilizing almost impossible
so it's not flowering i'm seeing then but pre flowers?

yes pre flowering of your pot plants over time i have always noticed that hairs will appear sometime around when your plants will begin flowering. also how cean i put little thumb nails in the post so i cean shair a photo of my monster momma

think you need 50 posts before you can upload pics,click those thumbnails and you'll get full size pics,if you don't have a manage attachments option when your posting replies you can't upload them yet,though you could always use a site like photobucket to put your pics up meantime

and with regards to the hairs,when i do indoor grows i always notice a couple of hairs before i start flowering,pre-flowers,but on my outdoor plants i have hairs at every node,which is why i'm wondering if they've started flowering

They look like they are growing well in that pot with the other plants. I didn't see any white hairs in your pics. Do you have any pics showing the hairs? Because you are outside, I think you are still in pre-flower. I'm in the US, but beside my Early Misty, none of my other plants have showed sex yet, but I'm sure they will very soon.

Nice setup!!! :jointsmile:

thanks man
i tried to get in to take some pics of the hairs but it's hard to get to them
did manage to get a few though

yes pre flowering. usually most buds will have hairts on them but they are in pre flower

UR garden looks kick ass.