Starting indoors and finishing outdoors

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Ncs0816

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Over the last year I was able to finally secure a nice groom room


I'e been an outdoor grower for 6 years now.

And I have a question that might seem kinda stupid...

Has anyone ever started indoors and finished outdoors?

Any significant problems when they went outside?

If I were to finish outdoors would it be better to ha e them finish in the fall? Like does it matter if I bring them out in summer or will they continue to veg because of the suns angle?

Thanks
 
Lil'Rich

Lil'Rich

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Assuming you make the transition carefully over the course of a few days or a week, hardening the plants off in a semi shaded, sheltered location they should be okay. If the day light hours match your inside light hours I dont see much of a problem.
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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Due to our short growing season that is how I always grow. I start them in Feb and around may 1st I finish adjusting the lights carefully to match the light schedule to outdoors light...then i start to harden them off.
I always give them a gallon of grow space for each month of veg they are indoors as well.
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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Hardening off” is the process of moving plants outdoors for a portion of the day to gradually introduce them to the direct sunlight, dry air, and cold nights. ... Harden off gradually, so that seedlings become accustomed to strong sunlight, cool nights and less-frequent watering over a 7-10 day period.
 
Cannabis.Queen

Cannabis.Queen

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I wanna add to this question;
Last year I started inside in march and put them out in April.
I had 9 plants under 3 60w light bulbs lol it was sad but it works and got monsters in the outdoor season.

Now I have a Grow light and room and it's 600w. So that's powerful lol and I have plants in there ATM that I plant to flower in there, but should I wait to do that until my seedlings for outdoors are ready or wil they be fine under 12/12 or a month?

I start mine indoors all the time and it makes for a better yield and hardening them off is real lol it makes a huge difference. Also veg time makes a big difference!
 
Cannabis.Queen

Cannabis.Queen

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ganga gurl420 said:
If they are under 12 12 they will flower..
Then when you put them back outside they will eventually reveg then as the days get short they will go back to flower
Imo I would wait.
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Well they need at least 3 modes to flower; not trying to be sassy lol but so maybe just keep them in a separate room with the cheap set up again lmfao

Hmm I'm going to look uo some solution
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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Cannabis.Queen said:
Well they need at least 3 modes to flower; not trying to be sassy lol but so maybe just keep them in a separate room with the cheap set up again lmfao

Hmm I'm going to look uo some solution
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I didn't know they were so young. Either way tho...April is early for putting them out. Di you live in the states?
 
Cannabis.Queen

Cannabis.Queen

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ganga gurl420 said:
I didn't know they were so young. Either way tho...April is early for putting them out. Di you live in the states?
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Lol I haven't even started my outdoor plants yet, was going to start them a month before I put them out but I don't want them to to go into flower at all lol so when I'm going to do is slowly being my lights down from 22 hours to 18 to 16 then to 14 etc and do that over the course of march then to 12/12
 
Cannabis.Queen

Cannabis.Queen

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I grow every year, just never indoors lol so first year actually starting and finishing a plant indoors and switching the 12/12. I'm in Canada so we start our outdoor season march-April I have a green house so I can get them out sooner
 
too larry

too larry

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Plants have to be sexually mature to be effected by light hours. That is 4-6 weeks old in most cases. When the limbs go from growing opposite each other to staggered, they are sexually mature. After that, if the nighttime is too long, they will flower.
 
ganga gurl420

ganga gurl420

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Cannabis.Queen said:
I grow every year, just never indoors lol so first year actually starting and finishing a plant indoors and switching the 12/12. I'm in Canada so we start our outdoor season march-April I have a green house so I can get them out sooner
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You are lucky lol...I can't get mine outside til late May and even with a greenhouse they would freeze :)
 
6ixtynin9

6ixtynin9

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Ncs0816 said:
Over the last year I was able to finally secure a nice groom room


I'e been an outdoor grower for 6 years now.

And I have a question that might seem kinda stupid...

Has anyone ever started indoors and finished outdoors?

Any significant problems when they went outside?

If I were to finish outdoors would it be better to ha e them finish in the fall? Like does it matter if I bring them out in summer or will they continue to veg because of the suns angle?

Thanks
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DON'T DO IT. YOUR PLANTS WILL EXPLODE.... LOL. That's fine. You can start indoors then finish outdoors no problem. I do that all the time. As Lil'Rich said, harden them off - that is if you're using weak lighting - cfl, flouros, t5, led 400/200/150w HID, etc. I run 315/620 watt cmH and/or 600/1000 watts HID lights, or my plants are older so I don't worry about hardening them off. You can bring your plants out whenever you feel like doing so. Dude you've been "growing outdoor for 6 years", you should know the answer to this - most strains, excluding autos, plants will decide to continue to veg or flowers, based on the daylight cycle.
 
GroErr

GroErr

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If you're in an area where the grow season is short this is pretty standard practice. Start seeds or clones to veg them 4-8 weeks before putting them out. As already mentioned, harden them by easing them into the outdoor state, typically it just means making sure they don't get too cold at night and don't get too much direct sunlight for a few days.

Key for any area is not to put them out too soon, wait for 14.5 hours of light minimum, I typically wait for 15 hours which puts me around end of May. Otherwise you risk them start to flower and lose a bunch of time re-vegging, kind of counter-productive when you're trying to get ahead of the game.

Here's what I use to determine when to stick them out, choose your closest city in the database and look at the daylength field...

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5925976?month=5&year=2018
 
too larry

too larry

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GroErr said:
If you're in an area where the grow season is short this is pretty standard practice. Start seeds or clones to veg them 4-8 weeks before putting them out. As already mentioned, harden them by easing them into the outdoor state, typically it just means making sure they don't get too cold at night and don't get too much direct sunlight for a few days.

Key for any area is not to put them out too soon, wait for 14.5 hours of light minimum, I typically wait for 15 hours which puts me around end of May. Otherwise you risk them start to flower and lose a bunch of time re-vegging, kind of counter-productive when you're trying to get ahead of the game.

Here's what I use to determine when to stick them out, choose your closest city in the database and look at the daylength field...

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5925976?month=5&year=2018
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Are you talking Length of Day? Or Visible light?
I don't get 14 hour Length of Day until June 2nd. And the longest day of the year is 14 hours 7 minutes for me. May 7th is 13 1/2 hours length of day, so that is what I'm shooting for. I'm looking at popping seeds March 25th or so. 4-5 weeks of veg.
 
GroErr

GroErr

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too larry said:
Are you talking Length of Day? Or Visible light?
I don't get 14 hour Length of Day until June 2nd. And the longest day of the year is 14 hours 7 minutes for me. May 7th is 13 1/2 hours length of day, so that is what I'm shooting for. I'm looking at popping seeds March 25th or so. 4-5 weeks of veg.
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I've gone 14.5-15 hours length of day for years and growing in a few different locations, but daylength depends on your proximity to the equator, and whether you're in the Northern or Southern hemisphere. Typical outdoor start here in Ontario is end of May, usually on or right after the May 24th weekend. That happens to coincide with both moderate temps where you typically don't have to worry about cold nights, and the day length.

Reason I say after 14 hours is from time to time I've done 14/10 cycles indoor to get my plants pre-stretched before going into my flower room. Most will just stretch and start pre-flowering but several strains have started full-on flowering in that cycle.
 
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