From inDOOR to OUTdoor

Hey guys I had about 20 clones I started in the winter from 2 mother plants...the mother plants flowered and produced great bud. But now it's warming up outside I moved all my indoor clones to outside plants..they were about 2 1/2 mo old when I moved them out. They seem to b doing well but they did switch into flower cycle immediately. Here's some pics lmk what ya think

Healthy looking plants, they look to be in pre-flower, I'm interested in knowing how they grow now that they have a 2 month head start on my plants which were potted outdoor yesterday.

If your days are still getting longer they will change back to veg, then back to flower, sadly most of their energy will be spent re-vegging, I mismatched the daylight hours by an hour last year on some clones

Way too early
The hours of light fooled your plant and now it is going to go thru an entire reveg before it grows again

Bad timing

Herb & Suds said:

Way too early
The hours of light fooled your plant and now it is going to go thru an entire reveg before it grows again

Bad timing

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Had no choice...had to put outdoors

It looks like you have a lot of shade in those pics. How much direct sun do they get?

rembrandt100 said:

It looks like you have a lot of shade in those pics. How much direct sun do they get?

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Wow I just did the same thing and just realized they get nowhere near 12 hours of direct sunlight.

Just part of it in early spring. I never successfully brought clones outside prior to late May without flowering right off the bat. They will grow out of it.

Id clean them up when they revert back to veg. Nasty looking plants right after the reveg. Need as much light as you can get right now.

They look very healthy.

nobighurry said:

, I mismatched the daylight hours by an hour last year on some clones

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So the trick would be to have my light schedule mimic the sunrise/sunset at the time they are to go outdoors?

That is correct.

Know when you'll be taking them outdoors. You can find info online for when sunrise and sunset will be. Match to that schedule. Thats the best way I've heard to minimize. Unless you can hang a light over them outside to make up the difference.

Cool. You can look in advance too. I can't move outdoors until mid-May, so I think I'll look up sunrise/sunset for then so my plants will be very comfortable with that light schedule before they move.

Eta: gradually, I guess, so I don't cause a similar problem in my tent. They're on 18/6 atm, mid-May is only 15/9.

This was all very avoidable by having a light directly on them for a portion of the night.

I have outdoor plants that started indoors since early April but I have my patio lights on a timer so they didn't flower.

Get a light on them at night and you can speed up the revert.

A flashlight will do the trick as well. Just a fyi

BullPower said:

Just part of it in early spring. I never successfully brought clones outside prior to late May without flowering right off the bat. They will grow out of it.

Id clean them up when they revert back to veg. Nasty looking plants right after the reveg. Need as much light as you can get right now.

They look very healthy.

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Hey they've been outside for more about two months now and it seems the buds are just getting bigger. Should I harvest the buds off so it can start vegging again?

No. The calyxes will be new branches. Just be patient.

Then again, maybe they're gonna go thru flower. Your climate is different than mine i am sure.

If it keeps flowering. When you feel its finished, harvest 90 percent of the buds then reveg it. If thats an option.

How long have they been flowering?

I think you have a chance of reveg if the days get a bit longer. I usually wait until beginning - mid May in my area.