Did I ruin these by putting outside too soon?

[Oldchucky]

Right on Phoenix! Hell yeah throw the extra ones in outside to see what happens! It will be a good learning experience in photo period Plants. You may wind up with something. You never know till you try! I’m up near Redbluff, California! It hit 117 here last summer and it’s usually about 5 to 7° cooler here than in Phoenix all summer! But I wouldn’t grow anywhere else! Check in with us. What’s going on with those outdoor ones every once in a while if you can. Will be interesting to see if they re-veg. If you get them that far. And it’s a good way to find out That you never want to deal with an outdoor reveg if you can avoid it!

 

[phxazcraig]

Ok, so the plants i put outside have been doing much better than I expected. They are kind of like autoflowers in that they started flowering very early.

Here's what they look like now.

 

[Oldchucky]

The problem is, unlike auto flowers, with the day is getting longer now they will never finish! They will stall out, and it will just turn into a big pissing contest! In my experience!

 

[Galgrows]

that's true what he says we've had experience with it. So now it's gonna be wait and see hope your daylight time says short for the next 8wks. Mine get 14hrs in June where i'm at.

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

A bit long but I hope this helps someone.

I do outdoor growing with photos year round but it's only possible because I use supplemental lighting. Just gotta work out your schedule and know how long your days are at that particular time of year and set your supplemental lighting to fill in the gaps.

Heres an example: I flipped on December 15 so days were their shortest of the year and were going to get longer as I moved closer to harvest. So I set the light in the shed to come on at sunset and turn off at 7pm and then come back on at 7am where I take them outside into the sun somewhere around 7:30. That way their days are a fixed length even as the day lengths are changing at both ends.

Easy easy right? But wait, I also have plants in veg and I only have one light, how da fuq can I do both?

Good news... If you don't mind having to adjust your timer periodically, it's very doable. I put the flowering plants in for light at dusk and the lights go out around 7pm. Then at 10pm when it's time for bed I pull the flowering plants out into dark night, put the vegging plants inside and turn on the light which I turn off manually in the morning and take the vegging plants out for the day. But you have to remember the days are getting longer and the flowers are waking up to earlier mornings so that evening shutoff time has to be adjusted periodically to keep it roughly at that 12 hour mark. With this strategy, my flowering plants get exactly 12 hours of light and my vegging plants get 19 hours.

@Ninjadogma - I see a potential problem with this approach ... PESTS. You don't want to bring outdoor critters into you inside grow.

 

[mancorn]

I think they’ll keep on budding. (Come on baby, momma needs a new pair of shoes!)

 

[phxazcraig]

By my calculations, these plants have approximately 4 weeks left to go. They are 8 weeks old tomorrow. IF they don't stall out in flowering, in about 5 weeks I will harvest my tent crop, and at that time I could move these plants into the tent and let them finish there as they will. My only deadline is that I'm heading to Bonaire in mid-June, and I have to have all plants harvested, dried and beginning the cure stage before I leave. So I could probably leave these in a tent for a month.

 

[jimbochicago]

I've grown indoors, but not outdoors, so I made a stupid mistake this year. For my indoor grow, which I try to start in January to be done for summer travel season, I tried to germinate 4 seeds out of 5 I had. I screwed up and only got 3 seeds to germinate, so I went out and got need seeds for a second attempt. (I need 4 plants to grow, no more, no less.)

That left me with three small plants in solo cups that I grew for about 3 weeks. I was going to axe them as I couldn't find anyone to take them, and I have four new plants for the indoor grow. I decided to stick them in pots and put them in the backyard to see what happens. I'm in Phoenix, and it's basically spring here now, with daytime temps in the 70's.

So they've been in the back yard since mid-January, and they seemed very spindly compared to my indoor grow. Very stretched. And then I noticed. I had some female pistils appearing on these photoperiod feminized plants. I had put them outside when the night/day cycle was about 12 hours on, 12 hours off. So they kicked into flowering like an autoflower, except the days are getting longer. I was not expecting flowering to start until October.

What's going to happen to these plants? Will they un-flower and go back to veg? Will they complete flowering? Will they go herm?

These are throw-away plants, so nothing that happens to them really matters, and it's unlikely I'd have grown them all the way through October anyway.

That happened to me, when I got some indoor plants and moved them to patio containers. They went into flower and also the leaf pattern changed with single leafs and alternating nodes. It took about 3 weeks, but they did settle down, re-veged and grew on another two feet. And then flowered at the end of the season.
Interestingly, the little flowers from that first bloom actually were quite good, even though they were immature and not frosty looking.
So, consider it a pre-view harvest, and just keep tending those babies and you'll most likely have some decent buds to harvest in the fall.

 

[jimbochicago]

That happened to me, when I got some indoor plants and moved them to patio containers. They went into flower and also the leaf pattern changed with single leafs and alternating nodes. It took about 3 weeks, but they did settle down, re-veged and grew on another two feet. And then flowered at the end of the season.
Interestingly, the little flowers from that first bloom actually were quite good, even though they were immature and not frosty looking.
So, consider it a pre-view harvest, and just keep tending those babies and you'll most likely have some decent buds to harvest in the fall.

(Or actually, they'll bloom before then if they're autos!)

 

[phxazcraig]

April 16 and they're still flowering, though it looks like foxtailing in places. All three are the same height as previous photo, but have put on a tremendous amount of bud weight. Crossing fingers for 2 more weeks.