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I have grown outdoors in Socal and to be honest with you I would be about 3 weeks into flower by now. So in my opinion put them outside. I found that growing in the summer months was not good even in a mild aired climate. The heat ruined the terps. But I was also in a greenhouse that had ventilation.I'm getting mixed messages on the correct time to completely transition my plans outdoors. I was told that the rule of thumb was mothers day. The hydroponic store sales guy warned me to wait until June to avoid premature flowering. I live in California and would love to transition outside to avoid having to bring the ladies inside every night to place under light.
Also, I think that some of the leaves are getting burned by being outside for more than a few hours on a sunny day. Any recommendation to prevent this?
My issue is the light cycle. I want to remove artificial lights and let mother nature do its thing. I want to prevent the exact thing that you were trying to achieve. I want to avoid floweringI have grown outdoors in Socal and to be honest with you I would be about 3 weeks into flower by now. So in my opinion put them outside. I found that growing in the summer months was not good even in a mild aired climate. The heat ruined the terps. But I was also in a greenhouse that had ventilation.
I've been moving them out in the mornings & back in at night for almost a month now. I hit a couple of heat waves & heat shock some of them. It's cMost people wait until around the 24th or so. But that's if they're going straight from 24 or 18. What cycle are you on right now? It's about 14 hours daylight now and be at 14.5 in a couple weeks. Some strains handle it better then others. If you put them out now, you can hit them with a little outdoor light for a couple hours. It's really just a light strike as opposed to giving them light, so don't need anything fancy.
You need to harden the plant off. If it's never been outside, then it should be in the shade for a few days. If you're around during the day and keep an eye then I'd move them into the dabbled sun on day 3 or just sun morning and evening. I normally only do the shade for a couple days, but some growers will go longer.
They have been getting some light @ night since they are behind a living room glass door. I have some porch lights that i can add as well. At what rate do I adjust down to match it with outdoor light schedule? More coming on why I use neem so often. Thanks for the elaborate explanation btw.I hear you about the moving rigamarole. I do the same thing and recently couldn't take it any more and planted a mom outside. (I had up potted and she was just to heavy when wet and I was one wrong step away from trashing my back hauling her in and out.) She was down to about 14.5 hours anyway, so crossing my fingers. Next time around you should start slowly reducing your light schedule as soon as you purchase your clones, so by the time you transition your plants outdoors it will match the natural photoperiod.
There's nothing magical about the 18/6 schedule. I took about 20 clones off a plant about 3 weeks ago and put them under 15 hours instead of the 18 (or 24). Maybe took a day or 2 longer to root (10-12 days), but they're all outside now. There's various things you can try; reducing your light down incrementally, giving them extra light outside with a porch light for a few hours, or light striking for a shorter period, after a dark period. It's really the total uninterrupted period of dark time as opposed to the total light time (and why indoor growers are super anal about making sure they don't get any light leaks during lights off.) As I mentioned, it doesn't need to be a grow light (just slightly more than a full moon). Indica's are a little more fussy then the sativa, but it's always somewhat of a crap shot. (We've been having shit weather for the last week, so I'm sure the evening and morning light isn't as good as a sunny day. And it's suppose to rain this weekend, so if you're up north, I'd try to keep plugging away with your moving for another week or so.)
If you've been giving them daily sun, they're already hardened off, so they'll be fine when you move them out permanently. Nothing wrong with neem & silicate, but that's a very aggressive schedule and you should reduce you're spraying down to every other week or so (unless you're trying to cure a specific problem.) It's fairly easy to burn the plants with neem, so might be why you got some burn.
If you were simply transitioning outside the first of June, you will go from 18 hours, down to ~14.5. So a 3 1/2 hour jump in 1 day, and the plant normally makes the transition. So yes, doing 1/2 hour drops isn't going to be worse. Lots of people buy clones in the next couple weeks and most are going from 18/24 to 14/15 and it works out. That said, a ton of new growers try and get a jump on the timing and end up with a 6" flowering plant. There are enough variables that's it impossible to say definativly what will work.Can I reduce the amount of light hours 30 minutes every 3 days?
Maze, if the plant is outside (all it's life) then there is no threat of early flower. Hoooot is going from indoor (after growing for a month or 2) and transitioning outside, so a different situation. If you're already outside and have a private space, you'd do best just to keep it outside. Moving outdoor to indoor brings it's own rash of problems, and not advisable if your other 4 plants are growing inside.I had five seeds but only 4 hydro buckets so put the 5th in dirt but just was waiting forever on some soil from Amazon. I used some succulent soil I had and planted it in that in Rockwool and then transplanted into soil when it arrived. It’s been outside for two weeks and is vegging out. It’s catching up to the hydro plants fast with no sign of flowering at all. I was concerned about it starting to flower before it got big because this is week 5 of veg actually and it is time technically??? I’m a new grower and I’m finding out nothing is written in stone and it’s very confusing
I'm getting mixed messages on the correct time to completely transition my plans outdoors. I was told that the rule of thumb was mothers day. The hydroponic store sales guy warned me to wait until June to avoid premature flowering. I live in California and would love to transition outside to avoid having to bring the ladies inside every night to place under light.
Also, I think that some of the leaves are getting burned by being outside for more than a few hours on a sunny day. Any recommendation to prevent this?
Been there, done that.Didn’t mean to show first pic 4 times..
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