plants wont bud

[LaDiva4711]

OK
I am at a loss
I am using the same nutrients as last year - but my plants are slow to no flowering
One plant (from seed, growing outdoors since mid March) flowered fully, but only in the center! I have harvested the center and wait for the rest of the plant to catch up - but so far - nothing. Plant is doing remarkably well for such an odd 1/3 harvest.
I have an Indica (from seed) that is bushy as hell, but no flowers, despite my Krap milkshake (chicken manure, mollassas and water) and Foxfarms BLOOM (plant has been growing outside since March).
My clones are doing great. From seed plants, outdoors since Mid March - no flowers. They have sexed Female - but no flowers.
I live by the beach, I do have to deal with some fog and mist, but we have a good amount of hot hot hot weather - and I had no troubles last year even though I had way more fog!
The ONE thing I am doing different is I used a soil amender "Vermimend" at the advice of my soil guy.
What the heck am I doing wrong?

LaDiva4711 Reviewed by LaDiva4711 on 06-22-2008. plants wont bud OK I am at a loss I am using the same nutrients as last year - but my plants are slow to no flowering:( One plant (from seed, growing outdoors since mid March) flowered fully, but only in the center! I have harvested the center and wait for the rest of the plant to catch up - but so far - nothing. Plant is doing remarkably well for such an odd 1/3 harvest. I have an Indica (from seed) that is bushy as hell, but no flowers, despite my Krap milkshake (chicken manure, mollassas and water) and Rating: 5

[Storm Crow]

Yesterday was the first day of summer- The LONGEST day of the year! Pot flowers reliably under 12/12- which won't be here until the Autumnal Equinox (September 22). I'm moderately surprised you got even a partial harvest from one plant as the days were getting longer! Just think of it as a lucky preview of things to come. She ought to give you a nice second crop later on!

So don't hassle it, darlin'! Nature just needs to take Her course. As the days grow shorter, they will flower! In the meantime- they are just getting bigger and better! - Granny:hippy:

[killerweed420]

Garbage bags work good for doing 12/12 outdoors.

[stinkyattic]

The plant flowered partially in March because of the short day length, and has now returned to a vegetative state. Read the link in my sig for some basic info on the plant and its care.
Your plant will start budding again in later July or early August when the days begin to shorten. When that happens, stop applying chicken manure because you need to withhold N for correct flowering. Instead, feed with bat guano that has a high P content.

I moved this to growing where it belongs.

[LaDiva4711]

Every one of you rocks!
Thank you!
I will do the doo and change to Bat guano and high p when the time comes
Patience is a wonderful thing!
I am also wrestling with Boytritus. I am using SM90 to combat. Folier and directly on sore spots...works ok so far, but are there any other suggestions, friends?
Thanks again~
InLight~Lee
PS: My plants say thank you too I put some Mozart on my dvd player in the garden...they seem to like it:thumbsup:

[stinkyattic]

Try Serenade, and if there are other nearby plants that keep your plant from drying out early in the morning after dewfall, tie them back. You want your plant to be in the breeze especially in a humid area. IF the buds have rot, don't smoke them!
Are you sure it's botyris and not powdery mildew? Grey mold is usually on buds, and PM is on leaves. Either way, treatment with a light mist of SMC leaf shine or neem oil on the leaves to prevent spores finding a place to take hold, and an application of Serenade (beneficial bacteria) to combat the pathogen.

[Delta9Haze420]

The plant flowered partially in March because of the short day length, and has now returned to a vegetative state. Read the link in my sig for some basic info on the plant and its care.
Your plant will start budding again in later July or early August when the days begin to shorten. When that happens, stop applying chicken manure because you need to withhold N for correct flowering. Instead, feed with bat guano that has a high P content.

Try Serenade, and if there are other nearby plants that keep your plant from drying out early in the morning after dewfall, tie them back. You want your plant to be in the breeze especially in a humid area. IF the buds have rot, don't smoke them!
Are you sure it's botyris and not powdery mildew? Grey mold is usually on buds, and PM is on leaves. Either way, treatment with a light mist of SMC leaf shine or neem oil on the leaves to prevent spores finding a place to take hold, and an application of Serenade (beneficial bacteria) to combat the pathogen.

All good stuff from Stink, as always! Why did you harvest so early? Do you have any pics of the flowers, especially the trichomes? I'd be interested to see how cloudy / amber (or not) they are. This is really early to be harvesting, especially for a March grow. Either way, they will flower (eventually) - don't rush, you'll just frustrate yourself (like waiting for water to boil). For this reason, I never even really bother much about thinking about flowering and harvest until August-September, when it is time to start paying attention to trichomes. Up to that point, everything is just on autopilot (unless some problem comes up). I do know what early flowering is like though (stressful!), as there is a grow log I am updating with a bunch of ladies who flowered early due to an inadvertant short photoperiod (not enough direct light). This caused a huge growth delay and some other issues, but is more or less corrected now.

Good luck!

[LaDiva4711]

Hi everyone~
In response to your inquiry, the reason I harvested so early was because the middle main branch of the plant did her own thing, while the rest of the plant has just started to flower now (July). I think the reason the inner branch went first is because I had bent down the sides for a more discrete garden - but left the main middle branch upright. We had several days of fog - beach fog - and 1/3 of the plant (the upright middle branch) went into full flower. 75% red hairs and I harvested.
Weird.

Heres the new problem, or the continuing old problem...
I think it is boytritus.
It forms at the branch node - grey and fuzzy and goes INTO the stem.
My previous experience with B is actually ON the almost ready buds in '07; I identified it as Boytritus because of the telltale wee bud leaves suddenly drying up and alerting me - as I dug into the '07 bud, it was slimey - so I rid the garden of the diseased part of the plant and was able to save most of her.
This '08 the blight seems to focus on the stems/nodes.
I have used Seranade and Neem and though it has slowed the blight, I have now found it on the branch node of another plant.

Can I use either Seranade or Neem systemically in the water for the plants in question? Or SM90 in the water? Or...?
Topical isnt killing it though I must say again - it sure as heck as s-l-o-w-e-d it.
We have fog here - blistering hot in the day - FOG at night.

Last question - I have a plant I thought was Indica - really really realllllllly bushy - thick leaves and mostly 3 leaves on each plant hand as opposed to 5, like nothing I have seen before. Someone told me the 3 leaves are due to the plant focusing on flowering. Now the plant is producing 1 to 3 new leaves each hand. AND it is so dang bushy that inner core leaves are keeling over dead, soft and easy to pull from the main stems and wilty yellow or brown.
This plant, from a seed, has been flirting with flowering since early June. She's smelly, and now looks like she is really gonna flower, but the leaves dropping away in all areas of the plant is freaking me out. All her leaves are kinda dull, dry and not very vibrant. I do regular leaching ( about every 3 weeks due to our way salty hard water), have been using a good seaweed and fish emulsion mix - with periodic chicken poo shakes. Now that she is lookinig kinda hairy and fuzzy with thc I have switched to bat guano milk shake. I did a course of Miracle Grow to see if she perked up and she did - but is still dropping leaves. I have also leached and just let her alone thinking I did too much of something - but same results...
Any ideas, o ones-that-know-way-more-about-this-than-I-do?
THANK YOU~
InLight~ Diva