Why does she flower now??

[mysticmoon]

I have grown in the outdoors many times. Everyone always states that to induce flowering the plant must recieve a 12 hour period of darkness. I live in Central Ontario Canada and my plants start flowering in or near the first week of August if I recall correctly. It seems to me though that there is still more than 12 hours of light in a day at that time of year,so what triggers them to flower???
Sorry if this is a repeated question or a dumb one but I don't really understand why they do that?

 

[4u2sm0ke]

Good ?....an auto flower, from what I have learned will flower at sertin time regaurdless of light cycle..but how agout some pics of this early girl

 

[mysticmoon]

Outdoor plants will flower when they go through a continuous cycle of diminishing light!

 

[BagSeed]

They don't have to receive 12 hours of light, that is just how we do it... It senses the days getting shorter and flowers. It can do this inside but we just make it simple and drastically reduce the light...

 

[THE BROTHER'S GRUNT]

Are you maybe seeing pre flowers? Are you growing from seed or clone?

I have grown in the outdoors many times. Everyone always states that to induce flowering the plant must recieve a 12 hour period of darkness. I live in Central Ontario Canada and my plants start flowering in or near the first week of August if I recall correctly. It seems to me though that there is still more than 12 hours of light in a day at that time of year,so what triggers them to flower???
Sorry if this is a repeated question or a dumb one but I don't really understand why they do that?

 

[Hick]

Outdoor plants will flower when they go through a continuous cycle of diminishing light!

http://www.marijuanapassion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8937 <---

 

[gettinggray1964]

yea, he took the words right out of my mouth,