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Yes, I'm pretty sure Blaze has some good experience, and it's how I do things. If it's too cold (55F or below) then growth pretty much shuts down. Can you do a coldframe over them? Switching nutes shouldn't cause leaf drop all by itself. But then my OD ladies get nothing but good earth and good organic nutrients, we work with the soil food web.alright one more day of digging and it will be done
anybody have experience moving ladies inside to outside?
i dont have my greenhouse cover up yet and its kinda cold
im losing some leaves, wondering if its from cold temps, stress from moving outside, or from switching nutes
running a full line of nutrients inside and switched to a gh 3 part for the girls outside when i moved them
Yes, I'm pretty sure Blaze has some good experience, and it's how I do things. If it's too cold (55F or below) then growth pretty much shuts down. Can you do a coldframe over them? Switching nutes shouldn't cause leaf drop all by itself. But then my OD ladies get nothing but good earth and good organic nutrients, we work with the soil food web.
Did you acclimate them to the sun before moving them? They can get pretty burned up, especially clones, if you don't give them a little shade and help in acclimation first. My own method is to keep mine under the big old black oak out front, it's got a good canopy and restricts direct sun from hitting them during the most intense times (after 10am through well after 2pm). Otherwise, I'll use landscaping cloth and make a tent with a few bamboo stakes, just enough to give them a little shade for a few days to a week.
He's in SoCal, which is, from a growing standpoint pretty close to a tropical environment. My mother's plumeria bloom almost all winter long! Her hibiscus is blooming, too, not to mention all the orchids she keeps outside. 20mi east of LA.IMO it is way to early to move plants outside unless you are in a tropical area, or have a climate controlled greenhouse with lighting. Putting them out now can cause a lot of issues.
While I've never grown weed in SoCal, my son and folks do it, and they've got stuff going right now outside. They have problems, to be sure, but those are based on the fact that the entire area is heavily landscaped and there are more bugs/pests/diseases practically inherent in the area than you can shake a Thai-stick at.Winter isn't over yet so so will likely be battling the elements. Also the light cycle is very short now, they would need a lot of supplementary lighting to keep from flowering right now.
If the light cycle gets messed up and the plant start to flower or get confused it can really hurt your yield later on. You never want your plants to get stressed out or start to go back and froth between veg and flower.
Often people equate putting plants out earlier with higher yields and this is not always true. The timing has to be right or you can end up shooting yourself in the foot.
Trenches can work great, but digging them 5' deep is a waste of time and money. Cannabis is an annual, it does not put down deep roots, but wide, shallow roots. You can easily get big plants in as little depth as 12"-18" of soil. In my opinion, anything deeper than 2'-3' (even 3' is pushing it) is not needed and will not get you bigger plants or a higher yield.
What about depth for stability? I dug a trench last year - on a steep hillside - lots of work! In the end my plants were all 6', and as they put on weight the started to lean. The soil just wasn't enough to hold them up.
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