How do you keep those clones from flowering as soon as you put them out ???
I'm serious.. My plants are all from clones. I veg them indoors til they are the size I want and as soon as I put them outside they flower. I would like to grow a "tree" someday and I think the only way I could do it is by gradually reducing my light cycle until it matches length of light they'll get outside.
Thinking about the size of pots you guys are referring to would be a total waste for me.. I'd be watering and feeding dirt.
The reason is because the decrease in hours does this to the plants. When you put a clone that is on 18/6 or 24/0 outdoors into 13/11 or whatever it is now then it will most likely flower. That's why I started my seedlings outdoors last month, they're about to sex soon and once they do I'll put them in bigger pots to veg out. But as for my clones, I keep them on 18/6 after they've rooted. Once it's about time to put them outside I decrease the time from 18/6 down gradually to 15/9, this way when the plants are going outside the difference in light is only an hour or two and the plant will most likely veg to that instead of flowering due to a 4-6 hour decrease in light.
Where I live, outdoors doesn't show 14/10 until around May 20th so putting clones out around then is best, I'll probably start a week before then. And as we all know, daylight will continue to increase from May all the way until the solstice on June 21st, after that flowering should kick in. Last year I found all this out the hard way, I had my clones under 18/6 and threw them outside around this time last year. The sunlight around now is about 12 1/2 hours which means most plants will start to flower now, but will start to re-veg after a while because we're getting an increase of 2-3 minutes of light per day until the solstice. Even if they're going out around May 20th I still need to make my veg room's hours a 15/9 schedule because there's still the possibility the plant will flower due to the 4 hours of decreased light.
