I moved to a Hot Dry Desert city about 4 years ago. Also I have always grown indoors, and a few outdoor plants in the yard also. But in this 118 degree summer heat, with 3-18% humidity, I have learned to not even grow indoors during the summer because of the out of this world elect bill.

Here is my thought though today. It is in the mid 90's here right now. At this time it is about 13 hours of day light. In December it gets down to about the low 60's. If a person was to put out some clones out doors now, could they live and flower by december at about 63 degrees?

I have 16 clones I just stuck straight into flowering under my 400 watt HPS. I think it might be very possible to grow out in the desert. But Camofloge would be a big problem, especially with these big grows everyone wants to do. But I still think a 3-4 plant back yard grow is possible, fully out doors. None of this 4 weeks veg indoors.
What I am really wondering is, will the clones at this time of year have time to produce before they die from cold?

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60's won't kill a plant, but what does it drop to during the night?
The problem I see is that with those daylight hours, they'll pretty much jump right into flowering.. That would keep them small & stealthy though, you could probably get away with more plants..
If you want best results from a few plants though I'd keep them in pots to start, and use an indoor/outdoor schedule for a few weeks.. The sun will harden them so they don't get shocked by the brightness factor like many plants do when they move outdoors 24/7 instantaneously..
5 extra hours with a few ghetto cfls for a couple of weeks would do be quite worth it..

Born2kill, I understand the benifits of placeing them indoors first. But the Clones I have flowering right now are going to stay indoors. I went straight to clone because I do not want a bunch of side branches with pop corn buds. I only want the colas. Still Think I am going to put like 4 clones outside and see how it goes.

My last clones I let veg for 2 weeks, then I topped them, and 3-4 days later stuck them into flowering. It worked very nicely. But I want to give it a try going straight to flowering from the clone dome. But my indoor plants/cuttings are going to stay indoors.

As for night time Temps during early December, I think it drops to about 50 degrees at night. They should finish flowering at that temp I would think. Not sure though, never tried it before.

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Temperatures are way fine then.. August nights get colder than that here.. You obviously don't have anything to lose.. Like I said, they'll stay nice & stealthy.. Are they indica or sativa dominant? Sativas will grow more vegitatively during flowering than an indica typically..
I did an indoor crop similarily once with NL#5..they topped out at about 13", and I got well over an ounce/plant.. Lighting was ideal for short plants though, it was mature fatter than norm bottom buds that made the yeild nice..

Were the plants faster and easier to manicure? I hate popcorn buds...

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temps are fine just make sure they get lots of direct sunlight. the sun is lower in the horizon so it is not as strong as in the summer time.

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DUDE, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH EASIER!! Probably my favorite thing about that crop..
Well that, and I learned that fully matured lower buds are probably the best smoke IMHO.. High seemed much more euphoric than the colas off the same plants.. I wonder if anybody else can agree?

id solar panel my house, if i lived in desert area.. may be just me tho... and yea, ive seen med patients strip a plant (almost completely) from bottom up when they decided that a certain part was finished. im not sure if it happens every time, but the bottom nuggies seem to mature a little faster in my past and present experiments

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You could do what reeferman does...

He starts his plants flowering indoors, and after a week of flowering, once budding has started, he moves them outdoors to finish up.

Don't desert nights get below freezing in November?

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Depends on which desert and which elevation.

Thanks FDD for the INFO. Is Cannibus alright outside like most plants during late fall. Most plants are ok, just as long as you harvest them before the first frost. Is Cannibus the same way.

As for the rest of your guys ideas, NO!!! that is why I asked spesific questions and said NO INDOOR GROW TIME... but thanks for trying.

My in door grow areas are full at this time.

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