Clone to outdoor

I have a couple of clones that I started indoors under 18/6 lighting for about a week to 10 days. If I move a couple out door now with present amount of light being about 10 hours what affect will it have? Will the plant go into flower stage?

Yes with that limited amount of light it will induce them to go into flower.

Yes it will go into flower...for sure

After they start to flower outside, the lengthening days will force them back to veg. Then they will flower "for real" after the solstice in the diminishing light. They'll survive and you'll get a harvest, but definitely not the best way to go.

Bacala said:

After they start to flower outside, the lengthening days will force them back to veg. Then they will flower "for real" after the solstice in the diminishing light. They'll survive and you'll get a harvest, but definitely not the best way to go.

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I've had a couple of plants go through it. They missed out on a lot of veg time from the time they we're trying to flower and the time that it takes to get back to a vegetative state.

I would start putting them outside a little bit each day and increase the amount each day, this will harden them up. Do this till the right time in the season
Going straight from indoors to outdoors will cause stress
And slow you down .

BigHornBuds said:

I would start putting them outside a little bit each day and increase the amount each day, this will harden them up. Do this till the right time in the season
Going straight from indoors to outdoors will cause stress
And slow you down .

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I've always heard about needing to ease them into natural light because of the UV but I've never had any issues. You can also veg with lights that have UV and it becomes a complete non-issue.

SchmoeJoe said:

I've always heard about needing to ease them into natural light because of the UV but I've never had any issues. You can also veg with lights that have UV and it becomes a complete non-issue.

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I haven’t grown outdoors in some time
And didn’t have uv lights , but I did notice the plants that where hardened didn’t stall , but plants that did a straight flip in to out, stalled out about a bit .
Nothing scientific, just visual assessment.
With the new lights it’s might not be as much of a problem.