Quote Originally Posted by smalltown
A friend of mine offered to house some plants for me this year so I took him up on his offer. I used a few bag seeds that I had saved from some pretty good smoke. He kept them there from the end of Feb. to the middle of May. They were given light on a 18/6 schedule. My first question is, is it okay to keep most outdoor plants on a 18/6 schedule a few months before planting outdoors?

The plants are really healthy and range from 5ft tall to almost 8ft tall. The males have been destroyed. After keeping the plants in a vegetative state for so long will they flower quicker or does it still depend on the strain?

My friend has offered to do the same thing for me next year. If everything does okay this year I plan to buy some "real" seeds. I am pretty sure I will be getting some Big Bud, G-Bomb, Blue Cheese, Sugar Haze, and Purple Bud. I'm going to try and get all feminized seeds but if that's not possible I'll just get rid of the probable males. Would it be okay to put these strains on the same vegetative schedule as my crop this year?
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The light cycle is OK.

They will not flower any different, they will just be much bigger. Huge.

Depending on where you are and the outdoor season is what your looking at. Now the diff between sativa and indica you can see. Some strains start to flower early and slowly build up. Some sativa's don't show till late and BAM all at once in the last 2 or 3 weeks.

How do you know you have destroyed all males ?