My Colombian Sativas (1st Time)

Hey, I live in Colombia, right by the equator. this turns out to be the bes thing that ever happened to me, seeing as i can grow and have fresh bud alll year long. In december i planted some babies, and they started flowering about a month and half into vegetative growth, maybe a little less. Some were stipped almost ocmpletely of their leaves, they have since recovered and seem to be producing nice buds. I have one mayor problem...I have a hermi. It has only shown very few male flowers, and every time it produces these I just remove them, in my heroic attempt to save my plant and my harvest. the only thing that seems starnge is that the buds on this hermi seem to be too thin... Here's a picture of what I mean:
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...ssasin/073.jpg

It has gotten a littl bit wider since, but I was wondering if it as actually going to produce full grown buds.

Here are a few other plants that I have growing, I was wondering how long it would take for these to produce full buds, seeing as it has been about 6 weeks since they started showing preflowers. this is my first harvest and I have done a looot of research. I lived in the bay area, California for many years and learned what i thought was everything I needed to know, but when it comes to practice you can never know enough. I wanna hear about your personal experience. My plants were transplanted into the outdoors when they were under a month old, they were slow in growing since I didn't feed them anything. I started giving them worm compost and regular compost once in a while. I wanna know what the schedule should be for feeding the plants, how often, what kind of compost for vegetative growth and what kind for flowering? I appreciate your answer.
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These are some pics, i don't have recent ones of all my plants bt I will as soon as i have better internet.
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...sasin/0062.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h9...ssasin/036.jpg

The plant in the second picture has growna lot since I took that picture (about 2 weeks ago). But in reference to the picture, how long do you think it needed until harvest?

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Aloha,

Sorry to be the one that breaks the news to you, but how many hours of light do the plants get in a day? My bet is that the delay kept your plants from going off. Now as the days grow longer the plant is confused. Does it throw buds that are now or will be soon have too much daylight? The plant does not know weather to bud and die (normal cycle) or to grow out of those buds and grow vegitatively, then bud this fall. So it covers all it's bases. It does both. If (and when) the tips of the buds start to elongate your plant just decided to go long season.

I live 1000 miles north of you. We also have year round growing conditions. I can tell you a seed planted at Christmas will get between a foot and four foot high and bud normaly. Plant the same seed a month later and your plant may bud or it may grow tall. Plant the same seed a week later and it almost cetainly will grow tall.

Every tropical location had a cusp. Plant before the cusp and you pull a great short season harvest. Plant after and the plant gets too much light and goes for the sky. I would ask other growers in your area when they plant for winter. You can also ask when they harvest their short season and count back four months.

As for your other questions pull up a chair and go through the board. You will find that others have asked these questions and have found answers.